Microsoft has a tradition of making a market breakthrough with the third release of a product. For that pattern to hold true in unified communications and collaboration, the channel will have to play a critical role.
- By Alison Diana
- December 01, 2010
When Microsoft overhauls the Online Suite as Office 365 next year, it will include Office desktop products in the subscription. An analyst calls the change a "mixed bag" for the channel.
- By John K. Waters
- December 01, 2010
An industry-sponsored study, announced on Wednesday, gauged interest in Lync Server 2010, Microsoft's newest unified communications solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2010
With new product name, Communications Server enters release candidate stage.
- By Scott Bekker, Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 01, 2010
The state of Minnesota has embraced Microsoft's Internet cloud services by agreeing to an application outsourcing deal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 27, 2010
Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft today released Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2010, which previously was available just as a beta.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2010
New soft PBX platform due out by end of year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2010
A Q&A with university CIO Michele Norin.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2010
These deployments show that not all cloud migrations are a one-way street.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2010
Microsoft this week released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3, which lets IT pros run the mail server on Windows Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2010
A decade into it, Microsoft's smartphone strategy lags Apple, Google and RIM. Can it climb back on the strength of its recent efforts?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 08, 2010
Microsoft showed off Communications Server "14" on Monday at Tech-Ed in New Orleans.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2010
Microsoft described its views on why its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series operating system will meet the needs of businesses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2010
Microsoft on Monday announced virtualization and other improvements coming with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2010