Microsoft News & Articles

Microsoft's billion dollar advertising campaign for Windows 8 got under way over the weekend with a countdown to all the things you can do with the new OS, as the company prepares a new Xbox Music service. Does the ad appeal, did it strike a chord, more importantly did the non-tech members of your family seem interested?

 Windows 8 pricing has been unveiled by Microsoft, with online upgrades from $39.99, along with the rather fetching eco-friendly box art for those who still enjoy packaged versions of their software. 

 Microsoft announced that Office 2013  has hit the Release to Manufacturing milestone, which sets the company up for an upgrade smorgasbord. Will users look to upgrade their whole PC, their OS, or their Office applications in the coming months, or all three? 

DotNetNuke is offering its Social Web Content Management System via Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud.

Who would have thought it? A group of some of the top companies in the IT industry have come together with the W3C organization to build a new community and website that, the group says, will become the authorities' source for documents for web developers.

 Enterprises are looking for improved security in their mobile products, and Microsoft is beefing-up its defenses by picking up PhoneFactor, a vendor of multi-factor authentication products to help secure your connections. 

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Social influence measurement platform Klout has integrated Facebook pages into its Klout Score calculations -- which should result in higher scores for page users.

There’s just nothing like seeing a couple of old hands get together for a common cause. That’s what’s happened today with the announcement that Webtrends and Axceler are joining forces to help another old pardner -- SharePoint.

Microsoft has decided to extend the mainstream support window for Windows Server 2008. The change is likely welcome news for businesses running the operating system that don’t have immediate plans to move to Windows 2012.

TIBCO, makers of Spotfire analytics has released version 5 of its simplified system for making data based decisions, building predictive models and perhaps finding that key insight that could be ground breaking.

It's a busy time in the document management world. The Microsoft Exchange Conference returns after 10 years as Microsoft gears up for the new Office 2013 release, HP uses Autonomy’s IDOL for information governance, AvePoint offers governance in SharePoint, FileTrail extends SharePoint’s records management, and Alfresco releases a new synching tool for enterprises.

Microsoft plans to release a new version of its Lync communications platform that will be compatible with Windows 8 and Windows RT-based devices. Lync 2013 will be available as both a mobile app and desktop client.

On September 8th, I found myself on the road again, far from my home in the Seattle area, participating as a speaker at the annual SharePoint Saturday Cape Town (#SPSCPT) event in South Africa.

Last week Meg Whitman slapped down any speculation that HP would buy struggling RIM. Instead, she said HP would make its own smartphone way. That doesn’t mean that RIM will not undergo a renaissance, and the announcement of a licensing agreement with Microsoft could be part of that.