Once again, Hewlett-Packard Co. has turned to an outsider, naming Leo Apotheker as president and CEO and former Oracle President Ray Lane as non-executive chairman.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 30, 2010
In an effort to incent solution providers to sell more products in its overall portfolio, Hewlett-Packard is revamping its partner program.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 30, 2010
Microsoft today released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2010
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 Office for Mac 2011 will be available from retail outlets on Oct. 26, 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2010
The community of volunteers that developed the OpenOffice.org project have split off from Oracle and formed a new structure called The Document Foundation.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 28, 2010
The state of Minnesota has embraced Microsoft's Internet cloud services by agreeing to an application outsourcing deal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 27, 2010
Microsoft on Thursday announced some new milestones for its browser-based Office Web Applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 24, 2010
According to research firm Gartner, IT debt is the amount of money it would take to bring an organization's application portfolio up to date.
- By David Nagel
- September 24, 2010
Microsoft released word yesterday that its Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 operating system was sent to equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
- By Chris Paoli
- September 24, 2010
Microsoft today released BizTalk Server 2010 to its hardware manufacturing partners, which means that products will ship to customers soon.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 23, 2010
Cloud computing services accounted for 12.5 percent of overall IT budgets, according to a research report released this week by Gartner.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 23, 2010
Despite the excitement of last week's beta debut of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft wants organizations moving to Windows 7 to use its Internet Explorer 8 browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 22, 2010
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free for small businesses to use "beginning in early October," Microsoft announced today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 22, 2010
New release aimed at broadened use of Windows HPC Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2010
Microsoft today released a test version of Windows Small Business Server code-named "7," which is the successor to the current SBS 2008 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 21, 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
A Microsoft executive answered questions today about the company's Windows Phone 7 business strategy at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 16, 2010
Apple, Google and BlackBerry are biggest gainers in "brand value" in 2010.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 15, 2010