As any company that has earned the distinction can tell you, achieving Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status is no easy feat.
When it comes to new partner business opportunities on Microsoft's infrastructure platform, the company considers unified communications one of the jewels in its crown. This month, Microsoft will launch three key building blocks that partners need to construct Windows-based unified communications solutions for their customers.
- By Keith Ward
- October 01, 2007
If you can't get to us, we can come to you. That's the message behind the Microsoft Across America (MSAM) Tour, an ongoing series of IT seminars and demos staged inside a fleet of mammoth trucks tricked out with the latest technology. The MSAM trucks travel hundreds of miles each week, making stops at Microsoft- and partner-sponsored conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events.
- By Anne Stuart
- October 01, 2007
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
- By Keith Ward
- October 01, 2007
Software AG has added to its CentraSite governance solution products with a new CentraSite Governance Edition. It's part of a suite of solutions that Software AG offers to businesses deploying service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2007
Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2007
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- September 28, 2007
Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
- By Lee Thé
- September 28, 2007
Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
- By Keith Ward
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft Corp. and its hardware partners are trying to bridge the divide between home computers and TV sets this holiday season with the release of several "media extenders."
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
IT administrators looking to move from the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail message server, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2005, are getting a helping hand from PostPath. The company released its One-Step Migration Methodology to help Exchange 5.5 users switch to the PostPath Server 3.0 e-mail and collaboration server.
- By David Kopf
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
Change is a painful thing, and there's nothing like software as a service (SaaS) to inspire dread, especially among the IT partner community. A new study from IDC takes a look at trends happening now that likely will have a "disruptive effect" on the traditional channel partner model as SaaS begins to mature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2007
IBM has rolled out new products to help companies become more efficient and handle bottlenecks in their business processes. The solutions add to IBM's arsenal of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture SOA offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2007
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.
- By Keith Ward
- September 26, 2007
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
- By Keith Ward
- September 25, 2007
Seagate Technology on Monday released a toolkit for system builders to encourage sales of Seagate's storage products with Windows Vista.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 25, 2007