The research company's "Software Pricing and Licensing Trends 2011" report indicates that software licensing and pricing would be more customer-friendly if some changes to the current structure were made.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2011
Confirming earlier predictions, a new preliminary report released this week by market research firm Gartner indicates that tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and other alternative computing devices have cut into PC sales.
- By David Nagel
- April 15, 2011
Microsoft unveiled more developer news during Wednesday's keynote talk, including upcoming Windows Phone tooling, a released Silverlight 5 beta, and a new Kinect for Windows SDK beta to come.
- By Kathleen Richards
- April 14, 2011
In response to claims from Microsoft that Google Apps for Government is not certified under FISMA, the General Services Administration has issued a statement verifying that Apps for Government is, in fact, FISMA-certified.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 14, 2011
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's standalone server virtualization solution, got its first service pack on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2011
Just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was released, Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2011
For the first time since release in October 2009, Windows 7's U.S. market share has surpassed Windows XP's -- at least according to one source.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft has accused Google of misleading users regarding government certification for its Apps for Government products, released in July 2010.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, while Mac users can expect SP1 of Office for Mac 2011 to arrive next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
Google's bid to acquire ITA Software Inc., a maker of software used by air-travel Web sites, was cleared by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
Echoing a forecast released by IDC in late March, a recent Gartner report projects that Google's Android mobile operating system will hold the top OS market position in 2015, with Microsoft's mobile OS placing second.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
Microsoft intends to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service, the company said on Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 11, 2011
The cloud got significantly more crowded this week, with Microsoft, IBM and Dell each announcing major initiatives.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 08, 2011
After a light Patch Tuesday in March, Windows security experts can expect a deluge of updates next week, based on Microsoft's advance notice on Thursday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 08, 2011
Dell Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in cloud computing over its next fiscal year, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
A new $12 million partnership between Microsoft and Toyota Motor Co. will allow automobile owners to access car telematics technologies via the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2011
IBM accelerated its cloud push on Thursday, when it announced the launch of SmartCloud, a product designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, a new private cloud solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
Windows Phone 7 manages to lose share for the Windows Mobile platform in the three months that span the launch. Can Microsoft show enough momentum for partners to commit to the platform?
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2011
Chris Capossela has been appointed senior vice president of Microsoft's Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2011
Microsoft's Dynamics SL 2011 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution hit general availability late last week. For Microsoft partners, the product was made available for download on April 4.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2011