Microsoft News & Articles

There’s nothing like the season of goodwill to bring out the best in technology giants. In the case of Microsoft and Google, just when you might have thought they couldn’t find anything else to fight over, they’ve started slinging shots at each other over email and contacts synching.

Analysts at reputed Forrester Research have released a study on making the business case for standardizing on a single browser. The report was commissioned by Microsoft, however, so it takes a bit of a limited approach to the browser question.

Economically, we still haven’t left the Great Recession behind. It’s everywhere; in every enterprise balance sheet, in every merger and acquisition, in R&D departments on both sides of the Atlantic. That said, it hasn’t really dampened enthusiasm for buy-outs and there were many this year across the entire IT spectrum.

Customers are in charge now, so should more companies invest in their contact centers to help improve the front lines that keep those customers happy?

EMC has announced that it has joined the OpenStack Foundation. Chuck Hollis, the VP of Global Marketing CTO with EMC explained why in a blog post today.

There have been numerous reports over the years on how cloud computing has developed, how businesses are taking to it, and how it is being used in the home. However, little enough research has been done to assess what vendors think about it. A new report aims to remedy that.

The holiday season may be fast approaching but it doesn't seem to be having much effect in the document management space.  Among this week’s highlights -- the release of IBM’s productivity suite, Microsoft finally releases Office 2013 to the business community, Perceptive releases new Outlook app, Snowbound offers right to left functionality for documents and Accusoft upgrades its ImagXpress application.

 Google is putting out its lists of what the world searched for over the year, with the iPad 3 way ahead of other tech-based terms on the list. 

By the looks of things, we are entering the End of Days for Hotmail. In spite of this, Microsoft is still not finished tinkering under the hood of Outlook.com, Hotmail's replacement, having just introduced new security features that should improve it.

As we move into a new year, one thing is certain for enterprise IT: the consumerization of enterprise technology is not a trend ... it's a reality.

Microsoft developers now have the option to deploy their Windows Server based applications in the Amazon Web Services, and it's just the latest Amazon move to solidify its position as the true cloud leader.

Microsoft has dropped the Silverlight.net website and put up a developer's network page instead.

It may be just a coincidence, but probably not. The very week IBM decides to launch its new Cloud Docs productivity suite, Microsoft decides to make the new version of Office 2013 available to business users.

Microsoft made public its long tested-behind-the-scenes Socl social network, and it isn't terrible, it just doesn't feel different enough to spend much time there as opposed to places like Digg or Pinterest. 

Another top day for business cloud consumers. Last week we brought you news that Amazon had cut its EC3 storage prices by 25 percent, a move that was countered by Google, which slashed its by 30 percent. Today, it’s the turn of Azure, with cuts in pricing of up to 28 percent.