Smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion on Tuesday announced an open beta trial for a new BlackBerry service that works with Microsoft Office 365.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 26, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Enthusiasm for cloud computing was (surprisingly) weak among attendees of this year's SMB Nation Fall conference.
                    
			            - By Rich  Freeman
- October 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Jared Spataro, a senior director of SharePoint product management at Microsoft, explained the nuances of the keynote in an interview during the Anaheim, Calif. conference. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 10, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced this week that Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007, expected by year's end or sooner, will be "likely final" for both products.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- October 07, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft opened Day 1 of its SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, Calif. by talking about the upcoming release of the first major update to SharePoint Online. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- October 03, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rajat Taneja, a 15-year Microsoft veteran who most recently served as the vice president of Microsoft's Commerce Division, is leaving the company to become CTO of game software publisher Electronic Arts (EA), a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- September 23, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella pushed his company's hybrid cloud efforts to investors at this week's Citi Technology Conference, held in New York City.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- September 09, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An outage on Thursday affecting several Microsoft Live services, including Office 365, SkyDrive, Hotmail and MSN, was caused by a DNS error, Microsoft reported.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- September 09, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner singled out and attacked six strategic rivals. Does Microsoft have what it takes to compete and win against Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware?
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- September 07, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Intermedia, a large-scale provider of hosted Exchange mailboxes, is joining Microsoft's Office 365 syndication program.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- August 22, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Thursday told Office 365 customers affected by this week's outage that it will deduct 25 percent from this month's bill. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- August 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    For users of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS), the transition to Office 365 will begin next month, but Microsoft's latest communications indicate a few caveats.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- August 17, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Several Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, SkyDrive and CRM Online, experienced major outages on Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- August 17, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Now that it's available, partners are prepared to start offering Microsoft's biggest bet in the cloud to date.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- August 04, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft created a new partner category when it launched Office 365 to fix the billing problems that vexed partners with BPOS. But there's a catch.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- August 04, 2011