Microsoft on Wednesday showed off a new user interface for copying files in Windows 8.
Steve Jobs has resigned from his post as CEO of Apple, according to information released by the company on Wednesday afternoon.
Microsoft this week released community technology previews of a new Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008.
Microsoft cued Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named "Mango") developers today that a release candidate version of the latest software development kit is available.
Microsoft and China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) signed an interoperability and legal agreement today as part of a Linux server partnership deal.
Microsoft is working to make its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system work with Universal Serial Bus 3.0 technologies.
Microsoft updated a U.S. patent application this month that describes a streaming mechanism to facilitate fast computer bootups.
People and processes are the root cause of most big IT problems, rather than software or hardware, according to a poll.
Office 365 customers hit by this week outage will have their bills cut by 25 percent this month, according to a Microsoft statement on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/19/2011
Microsoft claimed today that it has disabled code used on its Web sites that allegedly could track users as part of a "supercookie" tracking scheme.
Robbie Bach, who formerly served as president of the Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, has joined audio electronics company Sonos as a board member.
Google's attempt to disqualify an expert witness in a legal dispute between Microsoft and Motorola over Android use was rebuffed by the judge this week.
A leader in the PC hardware market may be leaving entirely.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Researchers at M86 Security said this week that the volume of spam containing malware spiked in August.
- By William Jackson
- 08/18/2011
Amazon Web Services apologized and issued a detailed post-mortem explaining the cause of a massive service outage that crippled its Dublin data center last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Microsoft's Windows 8 planning, coding and testing efforts comprise about 35 teams, with each team responsible for a single feature area of the operating system.
Amazon announced yesterday its AWS (Amazon Web Services ) GovCloud, which will offer U.S. federal departments a secure cloud solution.
Several Microsoft cloud services are experiencing major outages today including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2011
For the first time since security firm Kaspersky started tracking malware threats, Microsoft products are off the company's top-10 list of vulnerability concerns, according to its recent quarterly report.
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) customers anticipating a move to Office 365 may need to review Microsoft's latest communications.