Microsoft announced today that it will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion – marking the largest acquisition in the company's history.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/10/2011
"Mango," Microsoft's next big Windows Phone 7 update, will be coming this fall, but Microsoft likely will roll out Mango tools for developers later this month.
French security firm Vupen claimed today that it discovered a zero-day exploit of the Google Chrome Web browser running on Windows.
According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by CA, cloud computing customers and venders may not be paying enough attention to cloud security issues.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 05/09/2011
IDC on Thursday announced worldwide PC microprocessor shipment data, with upbeat implications for the PC market this year.
Microsoft's security update coming next Tuesday looks to be light, with one "critical" item and one "important" item expected.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/06/2011
Google tops the list of the most reputable companies in the United States, according to a survey.
Red Hat unveiled two new additions to its cloud service offerings at its Red Hat Summit-JBossWorld event.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/05/2011
It's been almost 10 years searching, but we've finally found this week's links.
A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for Novell Inc. to sue Microsoft for unfair competition in the office productivity software market.
Intel unveiled microprocessor chip improvements on Wednesday, claiming that a new architecture will lead to faster chips with reduced power use.
Microsoft fielded some questions on Monday in a Webinar on Internet Explorer 9, focusing on what IT managers should know about the new Web browser.
VMware restored service and apologized for two outages last week that affected some users of its relatively new Cloud Foundry service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Microsoft plans to consolidate many moving parts in its System Center 2012 products this year -- here's your guide to it all.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's .NET platform head, will leave that post to run a new Azure Application Platform team as part of a May reorg, Microsoft confirmed today.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
Controversy over the control of IPv4 numbers was somewhat diffused this month after Microsoft entered into a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over IPv4 numbers purchased from Nortel.
- By William Jackson
- 05/02/2011
Microsoft today announced that the release candidate version (RC) of its Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) solution is now available for download.
Windows 8 might be released in 2013, according to a Directions on Microsoft analyst.
Amazon Web Services on Friday issued an apology for an outage that left certain customer sites down for days, causing permanent data loss in some cases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
Microsoft reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $16.4 billion today, led by gains from its Office, Xbox and Kinect products.