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A Microsoft Partner's Guide to Managed Services, Part 3: Microsoft Product Shakeup

Big changes, opportunities and challenges lie ahead with Small Business Server, Office 365 and Windows 8.

What Microsoft's About-Face on Office 365 Billing Means

Despite snubbing its OEMs with the Surface, Microsoft's decision to allow direct billing with Office 365 shows that Redmond still has its partners' back.

Report: Office 2013 on Windows RT Will Be Stripped-Down

Windows RT will come with a leaner "preview" version of Office 2013 when it ships, according to a report by The Verge on Tuesday.

SharePoint 2013, Excel 2013 Previews Get BI Boost

Microsoft on Monday outlined some finer points for organizations wanting to test the business intelligence (BI) capabilities available in the SharePoint 2013 and Excel 2013 previews released last week.

Office 365 Metro Apps Missing from Microsoft Demo

The Metro user interface for the service-enabled version of Office was missing during last week's Microsoft San Francisco event.

Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 Previews Released

On the heels of Monday's "customer preview" release of the next version of Office 365, Microsoft this week announced the availability of preview trials of other 2013-branded products, including SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Office Web Apps Server, Project, Visio and Office Professional Plus.

Microsoft Finalizes Yammer Acquisition

Yammer is now part of Microsoft's Office Division, Microsoft said on Thursday.

Judge Rules To Dismiss Novell Antitrust Lawsuit Against Microsoft

An order issued by a U.S. district court judge on Monday halts Novell's lawsuit against Microsoft over the alleged hobbling of WordPerfect in 1995.

Microsoft Releases 'Customer Preview' of Next-Gen Office 365

Microsoft on Monday took the wraps off the next version of its Office 365 cloud suite that's based on Office 2013 (previously code-named "Office 15").

WPC 2012: Office 365 Partners To Get Direct Billing

Microsoft for the first time will allow its broad base of partners to handle customer billing for the Office 365 suite, addressing what has been the single biggest controversy in the Microsoft channel for the last few years.

Microsoft Launches Office 365 for Education, Readies Live@edu Migrations

Office 365 hit its one-year anniversary on Wednesday, an occasion Microsoft marked by launching a free Education edition as well as announcing a schedule for Live@edu migrations starting this summer.

Tech-Ed: Windows 8 Is 'Better' than Windows 7, Microsoft Says

Microsoft focused on the basics of Windows 8 during its Day 2 Tech-Ed keynote on Tuesday.

WPC 2012 Session Agenda: Heavy on the Cloud

If the initial session list is any indication, Microsoft is stacking its forthcoming Worldwide Partner Conference with lots of Windows Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM content. But its staple products will get their turns in the spotlight, too.

Gartner: XP Holdouts Should Migrate to Windows 7 by 2013

Organizations that have not yet migrated from the venerable Windows XP operating system are "really, really late," according to Gartner Inc.

Microsoft Exec: Windows Azure Users Are in 'High Tens of Thousands'

A Microsoft executive explained the company's cloud-centric corporate strategy on Tuesday at a financial analyst event.