In his strongest public statement to date, CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft is "all in" when it comes to the cloud.
Microsoft cited progress on IE 8 use on Tuesday, suggesting that more Web developers are trusting the user experience with its newest browser.
$2 billion offer from hedge fund sparks speculation of rival bids from Cisco, HP and Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/03/2010
Microsoft released a community technology preview (CTP) of its U-Prove cryptographic tech, and opened up its patented crypto algorithms under the company's Open Specification Promise (OSP)
- By John K. Waters
- 03/03/2010
Microsoft offering SKU upgrades, MSDN subscriptions to retail buyers of Visual Studio.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/02/2010
The speaker lineup at this year's annual RSA Security Conference and Expo, underway this week in San Francisco, is packing some serious federal heat.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/02/2010
More than 8,000 developers have downloaded the first test build since its release at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in November.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
With today's deadline looming, here's how this editor handled his Windows 7 migration.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/01/2010
New functionality in Visual Studio Team System 2010 supports the Agile dev trend.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
The new Dotfuscator Software Services in Visual Studio 2010 moves beyond obfuscation with the community edition of PreEmptive's Runtime Intelligence Service for .NET.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/26/2010
Leading ALM firm targets Scrum-based project management with acquisition.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/26/2010
Products with lapsing service support include Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista RTM, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
The company publishes technical documentation for Outlook's .pst file format as an Open Specification.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/25/2010
Bob Muglia's talk at a Goldman Sachs technology event on Tuesday was chock full of forward-looking statements.
Microsoft signed a "patent cross-license" deal with Amazon.com regarding Amazon's Kindle e-reader device and "Linux-based servers."
More than 172 million smartphones were sold in 2009, an increase of nearly 24 percent from 2008, but the number of devices based on Windows Mobile declined 8 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/23/2010
Microsoft further explained its mobile strategy in a Webcast today aimed at investors.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/22/2010
Microsoft released a new version of its Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets for PowerShell last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
The popular tool's first commercial extension is a Visual Studio add-in for debugging third-party assemblies.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2010
Infrastructure upgrades after the economic slump will drive database deployment and development as competition heats up among Microsoft and other vendors, according to a new survey by Information Technology Intelligence Corp.