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 …
Microsoft set to acquire Skype: Report
Microsoft is close to finalizing a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies for over US$7 billion, and a …
Microsoft launches tool to migrate apps to Windows phone
While Apple has vaunted to a leadership position in mobile computing with its iPhone smartphone, Microsoft is looking to chip …
Gartner tablet forecast overlooks Microsoft
Research firm Gartner yesterday gave Microsoft a hard diss on the tablet front by not including Redmond in its recent tablet-OS …
Microsoft changes licence rates
Microsoft is boosting the price of a licence that provides client access to Windows Server, SharePoint, Exchange and Systems Center, but …
IE9 most power-efficient browser: Microsoft
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is the most power-efficient browser on the planet, Microsoft claimed this week. “IE9, which launched March …
Microsoft sniffs out unused wireless spectrum
Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are actually being used so unlicensed devices can …
Polycom gets instant Microsoft integration with Accordent buy
Polycom said it bought video management firm Accordent Technologies for $50 million in cash, giving the videoconferencing vendor a leg …
RIM joins forces with Microsoft for Office 365 service
Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), has joined forces with Microsoft to create a RIM-hosted BlackBerry enterprise service for Office …
Oracle goes after Microsoft SQL server
Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up …