Microsoft is releasing its Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 product this week, a developer tool aimed at nonprofessional coders.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/26/2011
Microsoft announced today that it has released the "Mango" Windows Phone 7 update to its device manufacturing partners.
Microsoft and SUSE announced today that they are continuing their Windows-Linux interoperability and intellectual property indemnity program.
Microsoft noted that Office for Mac 2011 and Office for 2008 users will experience some yet-to-be fixed problems after upgrading to Mac OS 10.7 "Lion."
Juniper Networks has hired the former president of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business, Bob Muglia, to be the vice president of its Software Solutions Division, the company announced Monday.
The Kinect sensor may one day be miniaturized for laptops, mobile smartphones and other mobile devices, according to Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.
Capgemini and Microsoft have ramped up their partnership on Windows Azure.
Google this week announced that it will return a malware notice with search results for users deemed to have infected systems.
- By William Jackson
- 07/22/2011
Microsoft has been working to reduce security flaws in its Windows x86-based family of software products using an automated testing solution built by its own research group.
Microsoft reported its fiscal fourth-quarter results today, beating expectations, even with a notable lag in Windows revenues.
Amazon Web Services announced last week that the Microsoft "license mobility with Software Assurance" program applies to AWS hosting services.
Gartner published a couple of studies last month advising IT shops to facilitate the creation and use of applications by employees, as well as their use of simple business intelligence tools.
EMC Corp., the parent company of virtualization giant VMware, has chosen a new president for its Advanced Storage Division: the former head of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD), Amitabh Srivastava.
One of the Windows Phone 7 devices shown running the "Mango" release at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week may be up for sale in Japan by late August.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2011
Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite in the North American region experienced e-mail outages today that may have lasted three hours or so before service was restored.
Microsoft today released a beta of System Center Operations Manager 2012, an infrastructure and application performance monitoring tool that supports both public and private clouds.
Microsoft released the next iteration of its free planning tool for IT pros, embellishing it with extra cloud assessment capabilities.
Cisco announced on Monday that it will be reducing its workforce by 6,500 employees in August.
Microsoft today announced a cash reward of $250,000 to anyone providing information that leads to the criminal conviction of the Rustock botnet perpetrators. according to a blog post.
Microsoft on Thursday described in greater detail how it has optimized Windows Live SkyDrive.