Despite the release of the Windows 8 release candidate, Microsoft may face an uphill battle in convincing the vast majority of enterprise developers to test it -- at least initially.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/31/2012
Google announced some Chrome OS improvements on Tuesday.
According to a survey of approximately 1,400 IT pros, 20.7 percent said they were "very interested" and 40.2 percent were "somewhat interested" in Windows 8 for their companies.
Microsoft and other software companies announced last week that they want the Open Data Protocol to become an international industry standard.
Hundreds of computers located in the Middle East have been infected by a highly complex virus called "Flame," according to security researchers at Kaspersky Lab.
Microsoft last week pointed to an IDC study it commissioned suggesting that organizations can save money by moving from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Dell is in talks to acquire Quest Software Inc. -- a move that would boost the company's software business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/25/2012
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, predicted on Tuesday that 500 million users will have Windows 8 devices by the end of next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/23/2012
Users of Windows 8 will experience a different way of accessing their PC's boot options, which Microsoft described on Tuesday.
VMware on Tuesday announced that it plans to acquire privately held Wanova Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
Most IT pros have thought about moving away from the venerable Windows XP operating system, but the ones that haven't are "really, really late," according to Gartner Inc.
Google late last week received approval from China on a proposed bid to acquire Motorola Mobility Inc.
Microsoft on Thursday released the latest version of its toolkit for deploying Windows systems and applications.
The U.S. International Trade Commission determined today that Motorola Mobility Inc. has violated Microsoft's intellectual property.
Nvidia has announced the "first" virtualized graphics processing unit for virtual desktop infrastructure deployments in a datacenter.
Financial analysts lobbed questions about Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) on Wednesday at a JP Morgan bank-sponsored event in Boston.
A beta of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 7.0 was released last week.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has been named the No. 1 CEO "who should have already been fired," according to a Forbes ranking.
A Seattle judge's preliminary injunction in a patents dispute, issued on Monday, appears to be putting the brakes on a German court's ruling that favored Motorola over Microsoft.
Microsoft this week released a preview of its forthcoming Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 R2.