A (slightly) tongue-in-cheek analysis of where partners rate in the Microsoft ecosystem based on the quality of show-attendee bags.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2008
Microsoft to spend $2.9 billion on channel in fiscal year 2009.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2008
Citing billion-dollar losses, an expert study calls on channel executives to help battle gray-market sales.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- September 01, 2008
Arlin Sorensen's network of partner peer groups prepares to kick off a new game plan.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- September 01, 2008
Microsoft this week released an update to a 2007 Internet Explorer patch covering Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 28, 2008
Some people think Microsoft's Mojave Experiment, revealed in July, was rigged marketing exercise, but Microsoft begs to differ, according to a Tuesday blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- August 28, 2008
The software giant this week released its first service pack for Forefront Client Security, a member of its Forefront family of security products.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 28, 2008
A variety of technical flaws in an upgrade of the system that supports the government's terrorist watch list has drawn congressional fire and raised concerns that the entire system might be in jeopardy.
- By Wyatt Kash
- August 27, 2008
If consumer Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is surging, why are VoIP equipment revenues -- especially in a market segment that includes gargantuan players such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent -- softening?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 27, 2008
The open source hypervisor Xen has a new version, 3.3, that includes a number of upgrades and enhancements that make it more enterprise-worthy and start to move it beyond the datacenter.
- By Keith Ward
- August 27, 2008
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and the company spilled a lot of pixels explaining the beta's new features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 27, 2008
Redmond responded on Wednesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 27, 2008
Last week, market watcher Gartner Inc. issued a report in which it projected that IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year. That's a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2008
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2008
Check Point Software Technologies today released a new solution to address Internet security woes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 25, 2008
Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a recent Forrester Research report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2008
Citrix Systems has upped the competitive ante by adding a new set of performance-related features to its flagship XenApp product.
- By Tom Valovic
- August 25, 2008
Software as a service (SaaS) for the small to medium-size business (SMB) market has opened potential opportunities for vendors, and a report released last week by Forrester Research offers some advice for gaining entry.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 22, 2008
Microsoft released Windows Small Business Server 2008 to hardware manufacturers, with an eye toward achieving a full product launch in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2008