Microsoft and SUSE are extending their interoperability and intellectual property (IP) indemnity program through Jan. 1, 2016, the two companies announced on Monday. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 25, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Will business meetings one day use Microsoft's Avatar Kinect? According to Craig Mundie, head of Microsoft Research and the company's chief research and strategy officer, it's a distinct possibility.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 23, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Despite a drop in Windows revenue, Microsoft beat expectations with its fiscal fourth-quarter results, which it announced on Thursday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 22, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and Capgemini are extending their collaboration efforts on Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, according to a joint announcement this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 22, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 21, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Microsoft "license mobility with Software Assurance" (SA) program can also apply to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon announced last week. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Microsoft alert issued on Wednesday warned users against applying its "Update Rollup 4" (RU4) to Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 14, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    "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.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- July 12, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New Dynamics CRM Online capabilities and benefits to the partner community will be coming from Microsoft in the fall. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 12, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Today Microsoft unveiled a list of System Center Operations Manager 2012 improvements.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 12, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Upcoming improvements to Microsoft's System Center Orchestrator 2012 were announced at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles today.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 12, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- July 11, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With the Worldwide Partner Conference just around the corner, here are six topics Microsoft-watchers will be especially on the lookout for.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 08, 2011