Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its "launch experience" of Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) Release 2, a unified communications (UC) product first unveiled in October.
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
- February 03, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Unified communications (UC) could carry a spark through an  increasingly dimming economic landscape if trends in an industry-conducted poll  hold true.
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
- January 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM on Monday rolled out social networking and collaboration services for businesses called "LotusLive," which integrates with IBM's venerable Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar application.
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
- January 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has begun ramping up the dialog about its upcoming  Exchange 14 mail server solution, which is slated to become the successor to Exchange  Server 2007.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 14, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft exec Stephen Elop announced hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint, which are  now available to organizations of all sizes in the U.S. market
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 18, 2008
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can help bridge the traditional gap between IT and telephony while offering rich new opportunities for partners from both camps.
                    
			            - By Fred  Bayles
- November 01, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will join a working group to support an open standard for multiplatform  messaging in the enterprise, according to a company statement issued this week.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- October 30, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An IDC study found that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations don't have solutions in place to prevent data leakage over e-mail.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 29, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big Blue upped its ante in the software as a service (SaaS) space  this week with the release of a hosted version of its venerable corporate e-mail  software.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- October 23, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The updated Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)  2007 will make the IP private branch exchange (PBX) "the electronic typewriter  of enterprise voice" by using software to do the job that hardware did in the  past -- only do it better.
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
- October 20, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The sixth IMS/NGN Forum interoperability "plugfest," and the first to be held since the organizations formerly merged this week, will drill down into the unified communications (UC) space. 
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
- October 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's October patch release cycle promises to be a busy one as Redmond announced plans to roll out 11 security bulletins in its Tuesday security release.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 09, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Yahoo plans to resolve a password security vulnerability identified last week in its Zimbra open source e-mail and collaboration software.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 02, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    While many partners eagerly await the debut of the solution formerly known as "Centro," some grumble that Microsoft's midmarket server bundle leaves them with too few third-party options.
                    
			            - By Fred  Bayles
- October 01, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a  private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted  computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 01, 2008