Windows

Microsoft waited two days to discuss the reason for BPOS outages; users complained it seemed less like an enterprise provider than a company "that can't support its own software."

Security firm warns a critical flaw in the way DLLs are used in Windows still endangers even users with Microsoft most secure software, because it goes to the heart of how they work.

At the same time VMware was placing a big bet on open-source cloud software, Microsoft barely entered the game.

VMware promises back-end performance improvements and more clients to fill out the very short list is has now, especially compared to Citrix.

Windows 8 has shipped to a very few OEMs for testing, causing leaks of screen shots and feature lists that may or may not indicate what we'll eventually see.

Microsoft said its application virtualization software due later this year will let applications run on its Azure cloud as well as in the data center.

Clouds, tablets and smartphones are turning the IT industry on its head; will Microsoft's Windows dominance be one of the casualties?

Microsoft and Amazon offer very different cloud services, but they fixate on each other so much their offerings are becoming too much alike.

Companies with no virtual desktops rate the difficulty of getting some far higher than do companies that have done it before.

VMware has great credibility, broad, capable technology and a desire to replace Windows with an all-VMware vision of virtualization, clouds and virtual clouds.

Despite pushing hard to get users to adopt virtual desktops, Microsoft and other vendors can't give a straight answer on how to license for them.

In its first quarter on the market, Windows Phone 7 was beat by Windows Mobile 6, the mobile OS it was designed to replace, for some very fundamental reasons - which Microsoft needs to take to heart if its new mobile platform is to have any hope of success.