Microsoft revealed the upcoming editions of Windows 8, both for x86/x64 machines and ARM devices, on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2012
The forthcoming product code-named "Windows Server 8" now has the official name of "Windows Server 2012," Microsoft announced on Tuesday at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2012
Gavin Kim, a former Samsung vice president who joined Microsoft in November as general manager of Windows Phone Product Marketing, left the company last week.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 17, 2012
A few clues about Microsoft's product roadmap for this year and the next were unearthed recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2012
A U.S. District Court on Wednesday gave Microsoft a temporary reprieve in its intellectual property dispute with Motorola.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2012
The fight between Microsoft and OnLive over how the cloud gaming company was licensing Windows 7 to provide virtual desktop infrastructure services seems to be over.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2012
Mainstream support for Windows Vista ends Tuesday, according to Microsoft's Vista lifecycle chart.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2012
Microsoft intends to buy more than 800 patents from AOL Inc. for $1.056 billion in cash, the two companies announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2012
Windows Azure, Microsoft's Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud-based operating system, now has datacenters servicing both U.S. East and West regions, Microsoft announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2012
Dell raised a few questions among virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) analysts this week with its announcement that it plans to acquire Wyse Technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2012
Microsoft on Wednesday released the beta versions of two virtualization tools that will become part of its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2012
Microsoft placed at No. 17 among companies that have contributed the most toward developing the Linux OS's kernel.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2012
SQL Server 2012 is now generally available, which means it's a purchasable final product, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2012
Microsoft System Center 2012 was released to volume licensing customers on April 1, according to a report Monday by Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2012
More expected dates for Windows 8's release cycle were leaked on Friday by financial news Web site Dividend.com.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2012
Shipments of Wintel PCs will experience a marked slowdown through 2016, according to the latest research projections by IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2012
A study commissioned by Azaleos Corp., a Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI) partner, has found that Microsoft's public cloud Office 365 offerings are not always cheaper than other Microsoft-stack approaches.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2012
Windows Home Server (WHS) users can connect with the Windows 8 "consumer preview" beta, Microsoft said this week -- with a few conditions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2012
Some upcoming Windows 8 tablets will feature screen displays that are near Apple iPad quality, Microsoft said last week in a "Building Windows 8" blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2012
Big Blue's new CEO hails new era of computing based on intelligent systems that can crunch Big Data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 26, 2012