According to a new Forrester Research report, while IT organizations are increasingly considering alternatives to Microsoft Office, Microsoft's productivity suite still faces no real competition.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2011
Microsoft will release the first service pack (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 by the end of June, the company announced today at the Tech-Ed 2011 conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 16, 2011
Monday's keynote speech at Microsoft's TechEd conference for IT pros in Atlanta shed some light on plans for Windows Phone 7 and Visual Studio, among other products.
- By Lee Pender
- 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
Novell Inc. now has the legal right of way to sue Microsoft for unfair competition in the office productivity software arena.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 06, 2011
Led by gains from its Office, Xbox and Kinect products, Microsoft has recorded $16.4 billion in earnings in its fiscal third-quarter, the company reported on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 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
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The public beta of Office 365, Microsoft's much-anticipated successor to its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), has just arrived, and we've got an early look. Here are 12 key features from the beta that show how Microsoft plans to deliver productivity tools in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2011
Microsoft on Monday released the public beta of the widely anticipated Office 365, the company's cloud-based productivity suite, as well as announced the Office 365 Marketplace.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 18, 2011
Eight U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments from Microsoft on Monday, the latest turn of events in the company's long-running patent infringement dispute with Canada-based i4i LLP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 18, 2011
Microsoft plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, while Mac users can expect SP1 of Office for Mac 2011 to arrive next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
"The big migration" from Windows XP and Office 2003 is coming, according to research firm Gartner, and IT pros should be prepared.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: With so many licensing choices available, IT pros can expect to have at least a few questions if they decide to migrate to Office 365. Consultancy Directions on Microsoft recently shed some light on the ins and outs of Office 365 licensing in an online discussion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2011
i4i LLP, which is currently embroiled in a patent infringement case against Microsoft at the U.S. Supreme Court level, has obtained some significant supporters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 22, 2011
Microsoft has released add-ons for Word and PowerPoint as part of the company's push to improve accessibility in Office 2010, and a wider initiative to help improve Internet and software accessibility.
- By David Nagel
- March 18, 2011