Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 hit the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone last week, with a projected wide release date set for sometime in October.
Microsoft reported that a DNS error caused Thursday night's outage Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, SkyDrive and other Microsoft Live services.
Microsoft announced yesterday a new startup procedure for Windows 8 which it says will lead to 30 to 70 percent faster boot speeds compared to Windows 7.
This looks to be a lighter patch month, with no "critical" items making it into in September's Microsoft Security Bulletin.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2011
Microsoft today announced a Dynamics AX 2012 ERP incentive program during its virtual launch headlined by CEO Steve Ballmer and Business Solutions President Kirill Tatarinov.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2011
Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella said his department's focus is for enterprises to adopt multiple Microsoft technologies that will provide a hybrid public/private cloud solution.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has advanced its nascent public cloud service by rolling out a private beta preview.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2011
Sony appointed a former Microsoft executive, Philip Reitinger, to a new position overseeing infrastructure security efforts.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was removed from her position by the company's board of directors, according to a Tuesday announcement by the company.
Microsoft announced today that its Hyper-V hypervisor will be part of Windows 8, its still-under-wraps client operating system.
Published e-mails indicate that Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to split its webOS business into two divisions of the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/06/2011
Microsoft plans to begin serving up a new version of its Windows Intune management service for PCs on Oct. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2011
Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have revoked all digital certificates from Dutch certificate authority firm DigiNotar as a security measure.
Microsoft on Thursday issued a beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012.
HTC showed off two devices running Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/01/2011
Microsoft this week announced an roadmap shift to ODBC for SQL Server APIs.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, kicked off the company's Dreamforce conference this week with some new announcements.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2011
Google on Tuesday released a "stable" plug-in for Internet Explorer that switches on Google Chrome technologies.
Microsoft on Tuesday released an updated 2.0 version of a connector that synchronizes multimedia files between Macs and Windows Phone 7 or Zune HD.
A key Microsoft executive who oversaw enterprise customer and partner affairs at Microsoft has stepped down.