Microsoft quietly published new pricing and licensing sheets for its coming Windows Server 2012 R2 product. The bad news: Those who want the Datacenter version are going to have to…
Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems. …
Apple’s lack of revisions to its iPhone product line has cost it market share and Android now has 79.3 per cent of the worldwide market, according to the latest shipment…
What if it only took two hours out in the sun supply your laptop with 10 hours of battery life? That’s what the Ubuntu-driven Sol laptop aims to do, according…
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), after slashing the price of its Surface RT tablet last month, is lopping $100 off its pricing for the 64- and 128-GB Surface Pro tablets, in a promotion…
Hot on the heels of last week’s revelation that Surface sales are utterly terrible, Microsoft has again cut the price of its Surface tablets. This time it’s the Pro version…
Mountain View’s stated reason for killing Google Sync is that it’s redundant. Rather than continuing to support a proprietary Microsoft protocol, Google prefers to have users sync their calendars and…
A UK court recently ruled that Microsoft’s SkyDrive name infringed on a trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB), and the software maker has agreed to change the name…
Microsoft Wednesday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for Android only covers phones, not tablets, limiting its utility.
The problem for Microsoft, though, is that patents looks like being its best hope for making money in the smart phone business for some time to come.
Microsoft’s shares took a beating following its gloomy fiscal 2013 earnings report earlier this month, in which it wrote down nearly a billion dollars on its unloved Surface RT fondleslabs….
The European Commission is waiting for Microsoft’s comments on a complaint against secure boot in Windows 8 before it takes its next step, according to the lawyer who filed the…
It looks like Nokia has finally come out in the open against Microsoft’s slow pace of pushing updates to Windows Phone 8. While the Finnish handset giant has been churning…
In a rare moment of corporate honesty, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted something about the Surface RT that you probably already knew: Microsoft made too many of them. Speaking…
Support for Linux and open-source Windows server and management suites has been a long path for Microsoft, a path it started down reluctantly but has become realistic about needing to…