WEB EXCLUSIVE: For many partners, matching their priorities with Microsoft's is a sure-fire way to boost business. Conveniently, Microsoft has just listed its top priority areas -- or "priority workloads" -- for the Microsoft Partner Network. Here they are, along with the related products and competencies for each.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 31, 2011
Gartner analysts say that while the three companies are different, they are competing in the same battlegrounds: social networking, portals and collaboration, mobile device operating systems, the Internet cloud and e-mail.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2011
Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2010, which includes update rollups since SP1 and a few requested items, was released on Sunday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2011
Two years after winning a contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles, Google is still fielding concerns over the security of its offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 19, 2011
Microsoft released Update Rollup 5 (RU5) for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 last week, but did not include a fix for an Outlook problem detected in the earlier RU4 update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2011
Intermedia, a large-scale provider of hosted Exchange mailboxes, is joining Microsoft's Office 365 syndication program.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 22, 2011
Several Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, SkyDrive and CRM Online, experienced major outages on Wednesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 17, 2011
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) suffered outages on Tuesday may have hampered e-mail services for North American users for about three hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2011
A Microsoft alert issued on Wednesday warned users against applying its "Update Rollup 4" (RU4) to Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2011
Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange messaging service once again went down on Wednesday across North America, but the company says service has been restored.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 23, 2011
Private equity firm Oak Hill Partners on Thursday said it acquired Exchange hoster Intermedia for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 26, 2011
Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 20, 2011
In the latest public-sector cloud win for Microsoft, the city of San Francisco has chosen to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 months.
- By John Moore
- May 19, 2011
Service pack 2 (SP2) of Exchange 2010 will be released sometime in the second half of 2011, Microsoft revealed at its Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 18, 2011
There are broad-based products and there are niche products, but Kemp Technologies' latest product, unveiled this week at Tech-Ed, is a product that's aiming for a niche within a niche.
- By Lee Pender
- May 18, 2011