Google Drive is on the horizon, and existing cloud providers are adding features.
Microsoft earnings will be watched closely for signs of how Windows is faring against competition from tablets and smartphones.
Microsoft and hardware makers will reportedly ship more than 30 Windows 8 tablets for holiday season; timing matches details in Microsoft document leaked earlier this week.
Its a big week on the Windows branding front, with Microsoft officially releasing the final names for Windows 8 client and Windows 8 Server.
Leaked Microsoft document shows Office 15 release date after the crucial holiday selling season for Windows 8 tablets.
Last year, word leaked about HTML5 and JavaScript add-ons coming for Office 15. Now we know the codename for those add-ons: Agaves.
A leaked Microsoft roadmap shows an early 2013 release date for Microsoft Office 15.
Nokia has announced that Microsoft Office is now available on its Symbian Belle operating system.
Microsoft will shift Windows Vista and Office 2007 into what it calls extended support over the next two days.
Microsoft has received 20 submissions in the $268,000 contest it hopes will result in new security technologies being baked into Windows, a company security strategist said Tuesday.
Attendees of a late September Microsoft conference will feature Exchange 15, likely paving a path for a late 2012 Office 15 launch/RTM.
Microsoft has closed down a logistics partnership with German business Arvato and will relocate to the Netherlands.
Microsoft volume licensees are reporting they are able to download what seems to be the final versions of the System Center 2012 system-management products.
Internet Explorer posted another major gain in share last month, the second in the first quarter of the year, perhaps signaling a turnaround in Microsoft's fortunes, a Web metrics company said Sunday.
Microsoft is allowing outside contributors to patch and submit potential features for ASP.NET Web API and Web Pages as part of its latest open-sourcing move.
Kinect for Windows version 1.5 will be released in May
Microsoft and Nokia will invest up to 18 million (US$24 million) in a new mobile application development program at Finland's Aalto University during the next three years
CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting service, will now support the use of the git distributed version control system.
In a new ad campaign, Microsoft is showing acceptance for Internet Explorer's dark past, calling it “the browser you loved to hate.”
How will Microsofts new per-core pricing affect the prices that SQL Server 2012 customers may pay? Directions on Microsoft has done the math.
Although enterprise social networking (ESN) products that replicate Facebook-like and Twitter-like functionality for workplaces have been around for about five years, Microsoft sees a big opportunity in that market, to which some feel the maker of Windows and Office has been slow to respond.
Microsoft has announced that it has released a new update for Windows Live Essentials 2011, offering up minor updates to a number of programs including Windows Live Messenger, Mail and more.
An alleged internal Microsoft e-mail claims the companys marketing and sales organization is about to halt Mac and iPad purchases made with company funds.
A new Office Web Apps Server is part of the next version of Microsofts coming Office 15 productivity suite.
Its looking like Moorea will be an element of OneNote 15, part of Microsofts next-generation Office suite, rather than a separate, standalone app.
Microsoft is launching an internal investigation following what researchers believe was the leak of details of a security vulnerability.
A sneak peek at the early version of the revamped Office shows lots of design elements from Microsoft's touch interface.
A newly revealed project from Microsoft Research combines a Kinect device with an overhead projector to beam the image of a model car that can be controlled to interact with real objects.
Microsoft is readying a number of new features and improvements for the next version of its cloud-hosted SharePoint, known as SharePoint Online 2013, according to my sources.
Microsoft is trimming prices of the enterprise and academic SKUs of Office 365 effective immediately.
Microsoft's Applied Science Group develops a touchscreen with only a single millisecond of latency.
Microsoft will offer Emporium, a shopping app that was recently released for Windows Phone, to non-Microsoft platforms later, including iOS and Android devices.
Microsoft Research is working on a project that will let users translate their own voice into other languages
Microsoft researchers have developed a program that will recognize and record your voice then translate it into another language for you.
There's a free iPad app that gives anyone access to a Windows 7 desktop and Microsoft Office 2010 from a tablet but it's probably too good to be true.
Microsoft has released as open source a program that helps users link different Windows applications in a single workflow.
Microsoft will soon shut down the app store for Windows Mobile, the phone platform it is phasing out.
Microsoft finally is going public about OnLive, the company offering hosted Office and Windows on iPads and Android tablets and whether it is in violation of Microsofts virtualization licensing terms.
Peter Molyneux, the founder of Fable developer Lionhead Studios and creative director at Microsoft Game Studios Europe, has announced that he is leaving both companies to pursue new endeavors with an independent venture called 22 Cans.
The Verge posted an article on Microsoft Office 15 features and improvements
Microsofts SQL Server 2012 has RTMd. It will be generally available starting April 1.
Microsoft Research is showing off publicly more natural-user-interface and Kinect-based projects ahead of the companys annual TechFest research showcase for employees.
This year is shaping up to be a repeat of 2009, when Microsoft and Apple last faced off with rival operating system upgrades.
A Microsoft roadmap slide sheds some additional details on the scope of the work the company is doing to integrate Hadoop with Windows Azure and Windows Server.
HTML5 is supposed to set the web free. Free to deliver and shape online media in any web browser. However, several of the standard's greatest champions want to be able to restrict the use of audio and video tags through encrypted media extensions.
Sensing the growing interest in DevOps, Microsoft will incorporate a number of new tools in its next edition of Visual Studio that will allow developers to work
The Verge has some screenshots of Office 15's interface taken from the Technical Preview released in January.
Microsoft, Google and others have agreed to abide by the Obama Administration's new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights which, among other things, will keep companies from tracking people's web surfing.
Microsoft has begun sharing information about the beta of VS 11, the next release of its tool suite for Windows 8, that will be released on February 29.
Microsoft has filed a competition law complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility, claiming the firm is attempting to use essential patents to block its products.
