Microsoft partners will soon be able to demonstrate their skills in two new competencies.
                    
			            - By Anne  Stuart
- October 01, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If there's one acronym that's on just about everybody's radar these days, it's "SMB," for small and midsize business.
                    
			            - By Lee  Pender
- October 01, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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