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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has announced improvements to Exchange 2010 that are designed to avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment. 
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- May 16, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) have experienced e-mail outages over the past few days.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- May 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    WEB EXCLUSIVE: Which components of Microsoft's 350-strong product portfolio are the most important to its partners' businesses? To find the answer, we asked the partners themselves -- over 500 of them -- to pick the 10 they and their customers can't go without. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 26, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citing information from Research In Motion senior executives, a Bloomberg article published on Wednesday reports that Microsoft has struck a cloud computing deal with the smartphone developer.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The two companies deliver on their $250 million, three-year pact to jointly develop integrated datacenter solutions.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- March 01, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The United States is responsible for almost one in five spam e-mails sent out, according to Sophos, a data protection and security company.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- January 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled. 
                    
			            - By Matthew  Weigelt
- January 05, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google announced an e-mail continuity service on Thursday to support premises-based Microsoft Exchange.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 10, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- December 09, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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