UK military one of first customers using cloud services in three new locations

Many customers waiting for hybrid cloud platform unhappy about choice to limit hardware to three vendors

Pilot project to test new battery technology for stability and longevity

History will show that Microsoft’s biggest marketing push in the decade of the 2010s — unless the company comes up with a huge surprise right at the buzzer — will have been a design motif.  At one point called “Metro,” until a lawsuit forced the...

Technology companies from Apple Inc. to Microsoft Corp. have sold more than $100 billion of debt this year even as they sat on more than half a trillion dollars of cash. They did it for two reasons: they wanted to avoid paying taxes, and just...

By The VAR Guy...

Spokespersons from Microsoft have declined comment today on news that broke from the city of West Des Moines last week that the company would be building a tremendous new facility in the city. It may still be a secret in Redmond, but in Iowa, the...

By WindowsITPro...

During Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference last week, the company published several blog posts on the status of Azure Stack, its forthcoming hybrid cloud-based extension of Azure into customer data centers, which is currently being tested in...

Company expects to spend up to $2B on its third West Des Moines facility