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
Apple issued an iOS update on Tuesday to fix a calendar bug that was overloading Microsoft Exchange 2010.
Microsoft this week issued Service Pack 3 for its Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG 2010) product, adding support for newer Microsoft client and server solutions.
Microsoft this week clarified an issue about its new Office products for consumers and small business users.
Yammer is apparently doing fine about eight months after Microsoft announced the company's acquisition.
Microsoft announced a few firsts during an opening keynote talk at its Lync 2013 Conference in San Diego on Tuesday.