Microsoft officials briefed financial analysts on the company's cloud computing strategy at its Professional Developers Conference on Wednesday.
Microsoft on Monday announced two product betas of note for high-performance computing professionals.
AMD and Intel on Thursday agreed to a legal settlement in which Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/13/2009
Earlier this week VMware announced VMware View 4, the latest version of its desktop virtualization product.
Someone spilled hot COFEE, otherwise known as Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor.
Sales of Windows 7 to U.S. consumers during the operating system's October debut outpaced those of Vista when it first launched.
The server market is set for a refresh cycle in the months ahead, according to IDC's latest server virtualization report.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/27/2009
Microsoft disclosed its fiscal first-quarter results, reporting an 18 percent decrease in net income compared with 1Q 2008.
The chip that was supposed to revolutionize computing has carved out a niche in the high-end server market.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally unveiled Windows 7 on Thursday at a ceremony in New York City.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/22/2009
Microsoft will hatch Windows 7 as a full-fledged commercial operating system this week, and IT professionals should be making plans for it.
Netbook sales are taking off, according to a new report from DisplaySearch.
- By Denise Harrison
- 10/15/2009
The global IT market will see an upturn, starting next quarter, according to a report released last week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/07/2009
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $7 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center to run a supercomputer system for large-scale scientific visualization and data analysis.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/01/2009
Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston on Tuesday.
In a surprise announcement Monday, Dell Inc. said it plans to purchase Perot Systems Corp. for approximately $3.9 billion.
- By David Hubler
- 09/22/2009
PC shipments took a dive in the second quarter, although they were steadied to a degree by consumer spending on portable PCs, according to an IDC report.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/21/2009
Microsoft executive Charles Songhurst answered questions on Microsoft's business strategy at the Jefferies Annual Technology Conference in New York on Tuesday.
Microsoft described a few new details this week about its upcoming System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 product, which is currently under wraps for testing purposes.