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.
IBM announced on Monday that it is aligning all of its cloud infrastructure offerings around OpenStack.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/04/2013
Microsoft plans to deliver translation capabilities to its Yammer enterprise social networking application by "late spring."
The Open Data Center Alliance announced on Wednesday that Microsoft has joined the organization as a "contributor."
Microsoft has finalized its Office 365-branded new product offerings today by announcing three additional ways to buy the productivity suite.
Microsoft clarified today that Thursday, February 28 will be the last day to get and use a promotional code for a Windows 8 Pro upgrade.
Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is broadly available today for download.
Big Data is more than just a buzzword, and it's going to transform the security industry as it morphs into "big intelligence."
- By John K. Waters
- 02/26/2013
Hortonworks has released a beta of its Data Platform 1.1 for Hadoop workloads on Windows.
Apple's release of iOS 6.1.2 last week seems to have unleashed problems for some device users.
Microsoft says its Windows Azure cloud storage service is 99 percent available the day after massive worldwide outage.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/23/2013
Microsoft confirms an expired SSL certificate brought down its Windows Azure storage service worldwide today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2013