A few clues about Microsoft's product roadmap for this year and the next were unearthed recently. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
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                    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