According to a Microsoft document, mainstream support for Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 will end July 8, 2014.
Microsoft will start rolling out Windows 7 Service Pack 1 automatically via Windows Update to its customers, starting tomorrow.
Microsoft may release BizTalk Server 2013 in April, with pricing based on a new per-core licensing model.
Microsoft's opaque plans for Yammer shouldn't give pause to organizations deploying social networking solutions.
Google today announced an executive shuffle that affects its highly successful Android mobile operating system efforts.
Microsoft this week released a hotfix rollup that addresses 90 issues with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Tablets running Windows 8 and Windows RT will make some market gains over the next five years but will still badly trail Android- and iOS-based systems, according to research and consulting firm IDC.
Microsoft's monthly security update arrived today with seven bulletins that address 20 flaws across a myriad of products.
Microsoft will enable the Adobe Flash Player "to run by default" in Internet Explorer 10.
Microsoft released its latest Lync 2013 client app for Windows Phone 8 today, and promised that iOS clients would arrive later this week.
Microsoft is responding to a less than robust uptake of new Windows 8 devices by cutting the licensing costs for its original equipment manufacturing partners.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that System Center Advisor is now a free service and that organizations don't have to have Software Assurance coverage on their servers to use it.
Microsoft got hit today with a €561-million fine from the European Commission.
Microsoft reversed course on a transfer restriction on Office 2013 retail perpetual licenses.
Microsoft released its Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant tool on Monday.
Microsoft this week explained a little more about how the Adobe Flash Player works with Internet Explorer 10 on the Windows 8 operating system.
According to market research firm IDC, global PC shipments will continue to drop in 2013 for the second straight year.
Seattle-based cloud performance management company MetricsHub has been bought by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced on Tuesday.
Despite the recent spate of headline-grabbing security breaches and accusations that foreign governments are sponsoring cyber-attacks, the head of Microsoft's Trusted Computing group, Scott Charney, remains optimistic about the future of IT security.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/05/2013
Microsoft is continuing its Windows Azure management improvements.