In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by Gartner and Krystallize Technologies shows a noticeable gap between Microsoft… Read More
The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too quickly for the more than 30,000 in attendance to process… Read More
Is Amazon Web Services going to be the Google of cloud computing? About 15 years ago, Google’s search technology catapulted it ahead of other search engines into a place atop… Read More
Most people no longer need to be convinced that cloud computing is the next big thing in enterprise technology, and there’s still plenty of room for all players involved to… Read More
First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is expected to cool a bit. And artificial intelligence, according to… Read More
The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new market share assessment released by Gartner Wednesday, and the overall… Read More
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 10 Creators Update and announces new Surface Studio apps, new reports on the state of the traditional personal computer market highlight the challenges the company faces, particularly in consumer… Read More
For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, released today. Both… Read More
Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services, which the research firm released yesterday. That placement denotes that, in… Read More
Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research firm today. The ranking can be seen as progress for Microsoft,… Read More
Sales of PCs took a significant hit during the first quarter of 2015, according to new reports from Gartner and IDC, but the research firms say that’s not necessarily a… Read More
Apple’s massive fourth quarter was enough to propel the company to the top of the worldwide market share charts, according to numbers released today by Gartner. The Cupertino-based company sold 74.8… Read More
The traditional notebook and desktop PC industry experienced its best quarter in nearly two years, according to numbers released by the Gartner research firm this week. Yes, shipments declined by… Read More
Just in time for new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s expected introduction of an Office suite for iPad today, new numbers from Gartner show how business and consumer buying trends are… Read More
For PC manufacturers, 2013 was a tough year — but 2014 might be slightly better. Shipments of PCs fell 6.9 percent worldwide in Q4 2013 compared to the same period… Read More
In the event you needed more evidence that the PC business isn’t a growth sector, Gartner has just released new numbers projecting a 10.6 percent decline in PC shipments this… Read More
The launch of Windows 8 later this year will give Microsoft a boost in the media tablet market, making Windows-based machines a viable competitor against Android tablets and the iPad,… Read More
More than 3.6 million smartphones running Microsoft’s operating system were sold to end users worldwide in the first quarter, according to data released this morning by the Gartner research firm.… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other… Read More