Microsoft is readying the delivery of Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, plus SP1 for Office for Mac 2011 next week.
Windows security experts had been expecting a large April security update after last month's thin offering, and Microsoft's advance notice appears to meet those expectations.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2011
The Android mobile operating system will hold the No. 1 smartphone OS market position over the next four years, but Microsoft's mobile OS will climb to second place by 2015, according to a report announced on Thursday by Gartner.
Microsoft and the Toyota Motor Co. have embarked on a strategic partnership on car telematics technologies that will tap into Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
Dell today said it plans to spend $1B in cloud technology over its next fiscal year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
IBM today accelerated its cloud push with the announcement of enhanced infrastructure services and a new private cloud solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
Chris Capossela now serves as senior vice president for the Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group, Microsoft announced today.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers yesterday kicked off a new "cloud computing initiative," with an initial focus on cloud portability and interoperability standardization.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 04/05/2011
Microsoft on Tuesday released its 64-bit Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011) to its professional services subscribers, and it also released Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials) for general evaluation.
Microsoft announced the general availability of its Dynamics SL 2011 enterprise resource planning solution late last week.
Microsoft today released a beta of its new Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 7 (DaRT 7) support tool that can help IT pros remotely fix unbootable PCs.
Microsoft today released an addition for Windows Server 2008 R2 that enables shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI Protocol.
Surveyed datacenter managers responded that their budgets will not be increasing for 2011, while a second study points to rising overall IT spending budgets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2011
IT organizations worldwide likely can't escape "the big migration," which means having to upgrade from Windows XP and Office 2003, according to Gartner.
Epsilon, a worldwide marketing service firm, reported on Friday that its clients' customer data, used in e-mail campaigns, have been compromised.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had filed a complaint with European Commission against Google's search-ad practices.
It's April 1, so you know what that means... Joke articles and features on every Web site imaginable.
The three vendors launched a demo to promote the open source cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/30/2011
Microsoft today announced some forthcoming licensing changes designed to benefit its Software Assurance customers, as well as its service provider partners.
Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a public test version of its Windows Thin PC software technology.