Microsoft added to its search advertising partnership deal with Yahoo by consolidating the ad platform used by Web advertisers in U.S. and Canadian markets.
The release candidate version of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can now be downloaded.
An industry-sponsored survey of IT professionals found that just four percent have deployed Microsoft Office 2010, although interest remains high in the productivity suite.
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/25/2010
Microsoft today released Office for Mac 2011, the seemingly neglected Apple Mac OS X-based version of the company's productivity suite.
Microsoft today announced a partnership deal with Cloud.com to help integrate Microsoft's proprietary hypervisor into the OpenStack project.
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Software security provider Symantec commissioned a study on Windows 7 migration experiences that was published this month.
New York City has struck a deal with Microsoft for a single, citywide license for the company's software under which the city, operating in a cloud computing environment, will pay only for the applications that employees use.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 10/21/2010
Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based version of a suite of productivity tools that combines SharePoint, Exchange, Lync (formerly Communications Server), and both the Office Web applications and the Office Pro Plus desktop client.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/19/2010
Microsoft announced it will be ending the beta version of its Microsoft Office 2010 Suite on Oct. 31.
A keynote talk today on deploying Windows 7 by a Microsoft official signaled the start of Day 2 at the TechMentor 2010 event, which is ongoing this week in Las Vegas.
Java should be considered a top software security threat, even more so than Adobe PDF files, according to Microsoft's announcement issued today.
Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his role and will retire, the company announced late Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/18/2010
According to the International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker report, the worldwide PC market grew 11 percent in Q3 of 2010.
Microsoft released Volume 9 of its "Security Intelligence Report" this week, which includes a section specifically honing in on the botnet problem.
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Microsoft released its newest product update to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on Thursday.
Marathon Technologies last week rolled out software aimed at broadening the availability of fault tolerant computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/15/2010