Outperforming analysts and Wall Street's expectations in most of the financial metrics, Microsoft reported on April 18, 2013, 18% year-over-year revenue growth for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, settling at $20.5 billion, with gross prof ...

This IDC study presents an updated five-year forecast for the worldwide public cloud enabling IT infrastructure market. IDC estimates this market totaled $9.2 billion in 2012 and will increase to more than $20.1 billion in 2017. This is ...

Microsoft’s financial reporting for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, which ended December 31, 2012, showed a dramatic recovery from the previous quarter’s disappointing $16 billion tally, with a record-high $21.5 billion in revenue for th ...

IDC's System Infrastructure Software team presents its annual Top 10 Predictions Web conference. In this presentation, the team will address hot topics such as the growing use of open source cloud system software, the changing dynamics o ...

This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the system infrastructure software market for 2013. It discusses how the convergence of virtualization, cloud, automation, analytics, and the consumerization of IT are setting the stag ...

The sudden departure of Steven Sinofsky adds significant fuel to the firestorm discussion of whether Windows 8 will be successful or — intentional or not — casts a cloud over the Windows 8 product only two weeks after the formal launch of t ...

This IDC study reviews shipment growth of the overall client and server operating environments market during 2011, and it also provides a shipment and installed base forecast through 2016. Revenue growth is measured through 2010, with re ...

This IDC study reviews the growth of the Windows Server product family during 2011 and provides shipment and installed base forecast through 2016 for Windows server operating environment products.: "Windows Server 2012 looks like a ...

This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the Windows client operating environment segment of the worldwide operating systems and subsystems market in 2011, with a 2012–2016 forecast for the Windows client operating environment market ...

On April 19, 2012, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit kicked off in New York. As one of the industry’s leading cloud providers since 2006, Amazon has invented new services to expand its set of cloud offerings with little direct competitio ...

The following was presented at the IDC Directions conferences in San Jose and Boston in March 2012.

This IDC Vendor Profile examines virtualization and thin-client provider NComputing and considers the market opportunity for companies in this market space.

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This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's cloud system software market taxonomy. This taxonomy provides technology definitions as well as a description of IDC's approach to segmenting the cloud software market. IDC's cloud ...

On January 17, 2012, Microsoft announced it had delivered the Release Candidate version of System Center 2012, which the firm described as being optimized to build and manage application-focused private clouds. Microsoft also introduced a n ...

This IDC Presentation includes an overview of the Operating Environments market, and considers the dynamics of the market in 2010 and 2011, the key competitors, and macro trends such as the impact of cloud computing and virtualization. T ...

This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the system infrastructure software market for 2012 and how the convergence of virtualization, cloud, automation, analytics, and the consumerization of IT are setting the stage for majo ...