Gartner reported a better-than-expected first quarter for PC shipments and is now forecasting a healthy market recovery in 2010.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/26/2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced Windows 7 consumer pricing, an upgrade program for new PC buyers and a limited-time discount offer -- starting on June 26.
Microsoft last week rolled out a beta of its new planning tool, which is designed to help its partners and customers migrate to products within the Microsoft stack.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/23/2009
Microsoft last week released a public beta of Configuration Manager Service Pack 2.
On Thursday, Mississippi announced it is the latest state to settle its multimillion-dollar antitrust suit against Microsoft.
Worldwide shipments of portable PCs surpassed desktop PCs in the first quarter of this year, marking the first time it has occurred, according to an IDC report announced on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
The release candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available for public testing, Microsoft announced on Monday.
At the Computex event in Taiwan this week, Microsoft presented its vision of a mobile computing world that will include "consumer Internet devices" alongside netbooks.
Microsoft and Intel on Wednesday touted the ability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to expand to meet multiple user needs when powered by Intel's Xeon 5500 processor.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/03/2009
Microsoft changed course on its product marketing plans for the Windows 7 Starter edition and removed a restriction that critics said would have artificially "crippled" the operating system.
Gartner revised its "worst-case scenario" forecast for the semiconductor industry due to an upswing in PC shipments, according to an announcement issued by the analyst firm on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/29/2009
Gartner revised its "worst-case scenario" forecast for the semiconductor industry due to an upswing in PC shipments, according to an announcement issued by the analyst firm on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/29/2009
A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches, said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/27/2009
Microsoft recently received a U.S. patent on technology that can restrict software and hardware use on a computer
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/26/2009
The European Union has slapped Intel with a 1.06 billion euro ($1.45 billion) fine for anti-competitive behavior in the x86-based microprocessor market.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/13/2009
Looking to give its Surface table top device more functionality, Microsoft today released its first service pack with a new SDK that the company says will give developers more flexibility in adding more features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/11/2009
Microsoft has restructured its .NET Micro Framework (MF) team and plans to eventually open up the .NET MF source code for community development.
Chip maker AMD announced some strategic moves this week regarding the race for dominance in the graphics-plus-microprocessor space.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/08/2009
PlateSpin Forge offers peace of mind at a reasonable price.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/01/2009
The general release date for Windows 7 on new PCs could be as early as this October, according to an Acer executive.