Windows 8 Update: Gates: Windows 8 is about the iPad
Windows 8 is Microsoft's best effort to catch up with Apple and grab tablet sales away from the iPad by including things iPads just don't have, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Stories by Tim Greene
Windows 8 Update: 2nd-generation Surface tablets may debut next month
Microsoft may be revealing the second generation of its Surface tablets during its developers' conference next month, according to a printed report.
EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy
Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.
Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative
Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency.
Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com
Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox.
Windows 8 update: Smaller, less expensive gear on tap for back-to-school
Smaller, less expensive Windows 8 devices based on upcoming Intel processors are in the offing for later this year, the company says.
New services bolster Microsoft Azure as key enterprise cloud management system
Microsoft is pushing Azure cloud service to the 5,000 attendees at its management conference this week, encouraging them to take advantage of the system now for specific tasks but to keep in mind that it fits into a full-blown hybrid-cloud framework that may become more attractive to them over time.
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for April to address Windows 8 vulnerabilities
Windows 8 and Windows RT are subject to critical vulnerabilities that will be addressed on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday next week, both by virtue of supporting Internet Explorer 10.
SIP trunking: The savings are there but the transition is complex
The merits of SIP trunking have been talked about for years and now it looks like businesses are aggressively adopting the technology, lured by striking cost savings and the promise of new functionality that their old phone networks just couldn't support.
Windows 8: How to free up disk space on Microsoft Surface tablets
One beef against Microsoft's Surface devices is that they have less usable disk space than the advertised disk size would indicate, but there is a relatively easy way to free up as much 7GB of disk space: Create a USB recovery drive and delete the Windows 8 recovery partition from the hard drive.
Microsoft at work designing 'cool' future Surface devices
Despite shaky sales of its Windows 8 Surface tablets Microsoft is working on the next generation of the devices that it hopes will attract customer attention.
Shrinking idle capacity: Corporate SIP trunks could equal T-1 links by 2015
The percentage of North American companies using SIP or Session Initiation Protocol trunking and traditional T-1s will just about equalize in two years, marking a dramatic shift in technology used for external corporate communications.
Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way networking battle
Avaya unified communications products can get along with Microsoft's Lync Server, and many customers will probably choose to deploy both rather than just one, says Avaya's CEO.
Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation
Avaya is pushing a new range of unified communications products, but is finding that managed services are becoming more popular among its customers who would rather turn over complex UC transitions to someone else for a predictable monthly fee, says the company's CEO Kevin Kennedy.
Windows 8 Update: 50k apps now in Windows Store
There are now more than 50,000 Windows 8-only applications available in the Windows Store, a big jump from when Windows 8 launched, but a far cry from what the company projected just before the launch.