Beta 2 of Visual Studio LightSwitch, Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, is now available for immediate download.
- By Michael Desmond
- March 16, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans to launch a public cloud service in a speech by CEO Leo Apotheker on Monday at the company's annual analyst meeting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 15, 2011
Salesforce.com is beefing up the social networking capabilities of its Service Desk app with support for native Facebook integration.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 03, 2011
The more efficient your PRM plan is, the more efficient and productive you'll be.
- By Keith Lubner
- March 01, 2011
What happens in one part of Microsoft doesn't always sync with what happens in another. And that can spell trouble for partners.
- By Paul DeGroot
- March 01, 2011
If Microsoft doesn't get BPOS billing right, the sharks will certainly be circling.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 01, 2011
Cloud-based systems management product acquired MSP capabilities in a second beta, and partner internal-use rights are included in Microsoft's partner program.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 28, 2011
In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft panned the recently released Google plug-in for Microsoft Office, which allows document sharing and collaboration.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2011
Amazon Web Services on Friday rolled out a new tool designed to facilitate the deployment and development of apps to the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 25, 2011
On Thursday, Google made globally available its free Microsoft Office plug-in that enables document collaboration and sharing.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2011
According to veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft may be planning a "Windows 8" release for mid-2012.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2011
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it recently signed contracts with over a dozen state and local government entities for its cloud computing services.
- By Paul McCloskey
- February 24, 2011
Cisco is discontinuing its hosted e-mail service, which the company made available for testing over a year ago.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 23, 2011
A Washington superior court judge today enforced a temporary restraining order preventing Salesforce.com from hiring a former Microsoft employee for an executive sales position.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2011
Parallels has just given partners more reasons to pay attention to the company: Today it promoted former Microsoft executive Birger Steen to CEO.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 23, 2011
Microsoft filed a motion with a Washington State Superior Court on Thursday that accuses Matt Miszewski, former market development manager for Microsoft's government group, of stealing 600 MB of documents the company considered confidential when taking a new position at Salesforce.com.
- By Chris Paoli
- February 11, 2011
Microsoft today announced the appointment of Satya Nadella as president of the company's Server and Tools Business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2011
In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 09, 2011
Oracle today released software aimed at letting organizations build private clouds by adding elasticity to their applications via a clustered file system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 07, 2011
IBM made a few announcements at its Lotusphere 2011 event today, including some upcoming social networking improvements plus the debut of a new cloud-based productivity suite called "LotusLive Symphony."
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2011