It’s getting harder for VMware to argue that it’s the only game in town for big-time virtualisation projects. Sure, every …
Microsoft to retire Office XP, Vista SP1 next week
Microsoft will retire 2001’s Office XP and the first service pack for Windows Vista next week, according to the company’s …
Microsoft offers developers early access to Windows Phone
Microsoft began this week an early access program for developers to get the upcoming “Mango” release of Windows Phone. In …
Apple, Microsoft consortium outbids Google for Nortel patents
Nortel Networks has auctioned off its remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of key technology companies for a …
Microsoft patents spy tech for Skype
A newly patented Microsoft technology called Legal Intercept that would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype …
BPOS users must wait for Office365 :Microsoft
Office 365 is now officially out, but customers of the suite’s previous version, called BPOS, will have to wait at …
Microsoft Office 365 goes live
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 yesterday, after a beta program of about nine months, as the …
Microsoft consortium to trial TV spectrum for WiFi
Microsoft has got together with a range of technology and media companies, such as BT and the BBC, to trial …
Microsoft revamps retail and consumer focus
A new consumer focussed group is being created to enhance excitement across the portfolio An exciting moment at DCC 2011, …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
Microsoft launching Kinect enabled adverts
In their constant bid to try and earn more advertising dollars for Xbox Live, Microsoft is introducing Kinect-enabled advertisements. According …
Eight Skype executives depart post Microsoft buy out
Eight Skype executives have departed the company following Microsoft’s $8.5 billion buyout in May, a Skype spokeswoman confirmed on Monday. …
Google to drop support for Microsoft IE7
Google will drop support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 browsers for its online apps, including …
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collaborate
In a rare display of collaboration, Google has joined forces with its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in a project …
Microsoft unveils Windows 8
Microsoft showed today the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei, unveiling a completely new …
Microsoft previews Mango
Microsoftyesterday, previewed the next major release of Windows Phone, code named “Mango” for the Gulf Region at a media event …
San Francisco migrates to Microsoft’s cloud services
The city and county of San Francisco have started a transition to using Microsoft’s hosted e-mail service, choosing the software …
Microsoft’s Skype buy could boost unified communications
Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype could profoundly influence a set of collaboration and conferencing technologies called Unified Communications (UC) that …
Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5 billion
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …
Microsoft to buy Skype
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …