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Cisco Reorganizes Partner Program in Wake of Employee Cuts

After disclosing its plans to shed 6,500 employees earlier this week, Cisco on Thursday announced more structural changes, this time to its Worldwide Partner Organization.

Microsoft 'License Mobility' Extended to Amazon Cloud

The Microsoft "license mobility with Software Assurance" (SA) program can also apply to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon announced last week.

Former Microsoft Server and Cloud Exec Goes to EMC

The former head of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD), Amitabh Srivastava, has joined EMC Corp. as the president of that company's Advanced Storage Division.

Microsoft BPOS Recovers from Another Outage

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) suffered outages on Tuesday may have hampered e-mail services for North American users for about three hours.

Microsoft Releases System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta

The beta of System Center Operations Manager 2012, Microsoft's application and infrastructure performance monitoring tool that supports private and public clouds, became available for download on Tuesday.

Microsoft Adds Office 365 Assessment Capabilities to MAP 6.0

Microsoft has added cloud assessment capabilities, including the ability to assess if a computing environment is ready to migrate to Office 365, to the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0), which became generally available on Monday.

Microsoft WPC 2011: Guide to Complete Coverage

Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference, which was held in Los Angeles this year, just wrapped up. Here's a roundup of all of RCPmag.com's conference coverage.

Microsoft Warns Against Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 SP1

A Microsoft alert issued on Wednesday warned users against applying its "Update Rollup 4" (RU4) to Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1.

Microsoft Releases CTP3 of SQL Server 'Denali'

Microsoft also released the first service pack (SP1) of the current SQL Server 2008 R2, though its announcement took a back seat to all of the WPC news this week.

Microsoft Gives 'Windows Server 8' Sneak Peek at WPC

"Windows Server 8," the code name for Microsoft's next-generation server that's still has not officially been announced, was shown off on Tuesday.

Citrix Buys Cloud.com

Cloud.com, a provider of software for building private and public clouds, have been acquired by Citrix System, announced today. Terms of the deal have yet to be disclosed.

Partner Perks Coming to Dynamics CRM Later this Year

New Dynamics CRM Online capabilities and benefits to the partner community will be coming from Microsoft in the fall.

System Center Operations Manager 2012 To Get Revamp

Today Microsoft unveiled a list of System Center Operations Manager 2012 improvements.

Microsoft Outlines System Center Orchestrator 2012 Updates

Upcoming improvements to Microsoft's System Center Orchestrator 2012 were announced at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles today.

For Some ISVs, Microsoft's BI Shortcomings Are an Opportunity

Microsoft ISVs Strategy Companion and SwiftKnowledge are intent on filling in the gaps in Microsoft's BI offerings, which, the two companies say, are functional enough but appeal to only a subset of potential Microsoft BI consumers.

WPC 2011: 6 Things To Watch

With the Worldwide Partner Conference just around the corner, here are six topics Microsoft-watchers will be especially on the lookout for.

Microsoft Will End Vista SP1, Office XP Support on July 12

Office XP will lose its extended lifecycle support next Tuesday, July 12, one Microsoft blog warned. Also on July 12, support for Vista SP1 will expire, according to another blog.

Microsoft Updates SkyDrive with 'Coauthoring' Feature

Microsoft has updated its SkyDrive product to include improved document-collaboration capabilities in the Word Web App service, the company announced on Thursday.

Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Hits General Availability

Microsoft made Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials generally available last Tuesday. The server can now be purchased through Microsoft's volume licensing channels or from OEMs and retail outlets.

With Wistron, Microsoft Strikes Fourth Android Deal in 9 Days

Microsoft has inked yet another intellectual property (IP) deal relating to the use of the open source Android mobile OS.