With a focus on the super-small business market, Aurora offers a cross-premises Active Directory solution that's easy to manage.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- October 01, 2010
It's time to get serious about the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN).
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010
Microsoft's determination to dominate the market for online services has never been as evident as it was at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Why is it moving so aggressively into that space?
- By Paul DeGroot
- October 01, 2010
SLAs reportedly affected by three BPOS interruptions in August and September.
Microsoft this week rolled out a dashboard tool for customers around the globe using its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) hosted services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2010
Microsoft announced today that it plans to realign its Windows Embedded Business group to better connect with the company's management and security product lines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 20, 2010
Microsoft is preparing to roll out a new cloud computing engagement model for U.S. partners that will double the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) finders' fee for top-selling partners from 12 percent to 24 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2010
Microsoft today released a beta of its upcoming customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2010
Partners like Jeffrey Goldstein are eager for features in Microsoft's forthcoming release that will give them better traction against Salesforce.com.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2010
As the economy continues to bump along, throwing off signals both that it might be headed up or down, a major component of the channel is reflecting the same confusing lack of clear trends.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
Proposal excludes wireless bandwidth and calls for weak FCC regulation. Critics allege the approach would create "private fast lanes" for "big players" and a "winding dirt road" for "the little guy."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
The Windows Azure Platform Appliance is coming this fall. While you can't buy one of these limited-production releases, it could portend the future of private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2010
Some MSPs are intrigued by the new Microsoft cloud-based Windows Intune, but the product's early positioning and the company's commitment to the managed services model are questioned.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft announced on Monday that a "preview" of Windows Small Business Server codenamed "Aurora" is now available for download.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2010
Microsoft this week provided notice of some upcoming product updates and betas to expect in the coming months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2010