Speaking at a press conference in Shanghai, Steve Ballmer confirmed that the company is hiring "several thousand" new workers in China, to support its Windows Phone and Windows Azure efforts. More...
A new promo video for Microsoft's Windows Azure shows office workers taking time out (thanks to Azure saving them some time) to host a dial-up connection battle. You read that right. More...
Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with the Linux-based SUSE that will allow Windows Server Hyper-V workloads to run on SUSE Cloud-based infrastructures. More...
Microsoft has announced it has released the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET update that adds a number of new features, including quicker ways to publish Windows Azure Web Sites. More...
Microsoft has revealed that annual revenues for its Windows Azure cloud-based services have now exceeded $1 billion for the first time, which is in the server and tools division. More...
Microsoft has launched a new promotional video for its Windows Azure cloud service that features fictional office employees in a medieval-like duel with stuffed animals. More...
Microsoft has made changes to its Business Associate Agreement that should make it easier for healthcare companies to use its cloud services, including Office 365. More...
A study commissioned by Microsoft claims that small businesses lose a total of $24 billion a year due to IT problems that have to be fixed by involuntary IT managers. More...
Microsoft has announced that its new Windows Azure Infrastructure Services is now generally available, which allows its customers to move its current applications to Microsoft's cloud service. More...
NBC has announced a new agreement with Microsoft that will have its Windows Azure cloud service as the backbone for NBC Sports' streaming Internet sports coverage, including the 2014 Olympics. More...
Microsoft has announced it is now offering the first public preview of HDInsight Service for Windows Azure, allowing its users to launch and manage Hadoop clusters on Microsoft's cloud server service. More...
Microsoft has updated its Windows Azure platform with a number of new features, including the long awaited addition of Android app support for its Mobile Services section. More...
Microsoft has announced it has now acquired MetricsHub for Windows Azure, a Bellevue, Washington startup company that previously received mentoring via the Microsoft Accelerator program. More...
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service is still dealing with an extended outage that began on Friday and affected its servers worldwide due to a expired HTTPS certificate. More...
The research firm Nasuni said today there is over one exabyte of data stored in the "cloud" and that Microsoft's Windows Azure is currently the best cloud service provider. More...
Microsoft has announced it is testing a new sign-in user interface that will be used by several different company services, including Office 365, Windows Azure and more. More...
Microsoft has announced an expansion of its previously launched app store for its Windows Azure service to even more territories and countries, while also spotlighting some new apps in the store. More...
Game publisher Webzen has announced it has partnered with Microsoft to help launch "a unique hybrid version" of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service that will be used for the FPS Arctic Combat. More...
Microsoft has announced that Windows Azure Media Services is officially available, allowing clients to stream video to a wide variety of platforms in many different media formats. More...
Microsoft has now announced what happened to cause the outage of one server group of its Windows Azure services in late December that caused some cloud saves for Xbox 360 users to become unavailable. More...
Damon Danieli, a former executive at Microsoft, came back to address a company demo event where he proceeded to say that "Microsoft needs some help" when it comes to encouraging new startups. More...
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud-based services have been experiencing outages in its servers in the south central portion of the US for over a day, with no word on when it might be fixed. More...
Microsoft has announced that it has added a number of new features to its Windows Azure cloud-based services, along with expanding the Windows Azure Store to include more countries. More...
Microsoft offers up some new information on how its Windows Azure cloud-based server business is helping to crunch some big numbers to help support medical research. More...
Amazon has announced that it has added support for Microsoft's recently launched Windows Server 2012 OS to the cloud-based Amazon Web Services, along with added support for .NET 4.5 More...
A company called Democracy Live is using Microsoft's Surface tablet in one voting precinct in Charlottesville, Virginia to collect votes for the US election Tuesday in both state and national races. More...
Following the successful launch of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, Microsoft is expanding its public cloud platform to China, giving businesses access to the full range of Azure services. More...
Microsoft talks more about how they are using Windows Azure to handle the backend of the data and server systems for the company's upcoming Xbox 360 shooter Halo 4. More...
Microsoft has announced a preview version of Windows Azure Store, allowing first and third party apps made for Windows Azure cloud services to be downloaded and sold. More...
Microsoft has announced the beta release of Windows Azure services for Windows Server 2012 is available to download, along with word that System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 will launch in early 2013. More...
Microsoft has announced that it has acquired PhoneFactor, a company that offers multifactor authentication services for PCs and smartphones. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More...
Microsoft has announced the 10 startup companies that have been picked to be the finalists for Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, which will give them access to mentors and advice. More...
Microsoft has announced it has made an undisclosed investment in Mimvi, along with a partnership that will involve Mimvi creating products for Windows Azure and Windows Phone 8. More...
A company named Agawi has announced plans to offer cloud-based streaming games via a Windows 8 application and using Microsoft's Windows Azure service. More...
Microsoft has now announced that its Windows Azure cloud-based service can be more easily accessed by Windows 8 apps via the newly revealed Windows Azure Mobile Services. More...
Microsoft is teaming up with the Chinese ISP PPTV to launch a new web TV service in that country. The service will be powered by Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform. More...
Microsoft has offered a more detailed explanation for what caused a recent European outage of its Windows Azure service, saying that a "safety valve" issue caused the shutdown. More...
Microsoft has apologized for an extended outage in Europe of its Windows Azure cloud service earlier this week, saying that the issue was caused by a "misconfigured network device". More...
With the twentieth annual Microsoft TechEd now under way in Orlando, we look back at the first day's keynote address through some of the images we captured from the event earlier today. More...
In today's keynote during Microsoft's TechEd conference today, the company touted what it called the new era of the "Cloud OS" with Windows Server 2012, the new version of Windows Azure and more. More...
Microsoft has added more achievements for developers to unlock while using its Visual Studio tool application, specifically for Windows Azure programming support. More...
Greenpeace has issued a new report that is critical of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others for the types of energy used to power their various cloud server services. More...
Microsoft has announced that it will soon begin charging a monthly fee for software developers to access its Bing Search API features via the Windows Azure Marketplace. More...
Microsoft is taking some funny pot shots at VMware with a new series of Youtube parody videos featuring presentations by the fictional 1970s movie star reject "Tad". More...
Microsoft has announced that it is continuing to support and develop its plan for creating intelligent systems for devices that run, among other things, the Windows Embedded OS. More...
Microsoft has announced details about its online cloud-based backup service plans for the upcoming release of Windows Server 8, built on the Windows Azure platform. More...
A prototype app made for Windows 8 was shown off at Microsoft this week, which was used to control various aspects of a police car, including opening doors and turning on lights. More...
Microsoft has announced that it will offer a 33 percent credit for the month to its Windows Azure customers after a Leap Day bug caused the cloud service to shut down in late February. More...
Microsoft has admitted that there was an issue with its Windows Azure cloud-based services earlier this week that resulted in Azure experiencing downtime for nearly 10 hours. More...
A new report claims that Microsoft will allow the open source Linux operating system to run on a new persistent virtual machine feature for its Windows Azure cloud-based platform. More...