From product updates, to the Skype-to-Teams transition, to the latest Windows 10 release, here are the headlines that got the most attention from our readers this year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 27, 2017
Oracle is expected to acquire Aconex, a provider of cloud-based collaboration solutions for the construction industry, for $1.2 billion U.S. or $7.80 per share.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 19, 2017
Businesses that migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud using a "direct match" method are missing out on significant cost savings, according to a recent study by Microsoft Azure migration partner TSO Logic.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 19, 2017
Microsoft issued some good news recently to Mac users of its Skype for Business Server 2015 product. However, there's bad news for organizations still using the aging Office Live Meeting unified communications service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2017
Microsoft is slated to release a new "Azure Migrate" solution within the next six months, a company executive said in a recent presentation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2017
Microsoft's new Office 365 Teams collaboration service is inheriting some of the calling capabilities of Skype for Business, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2017
Microsoft's new Unified Support plan will result in potentially substantial price increases for organizations when it takes effect in about six months, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2017
Recent data from Gartner indicates that worldwide server revenue went up by 16 percent in the third quarter of this year.
- By Becky Nagel
- December 12, 2017
Microsoft added two new virtual machine (VM) families to its lineup of Azure compute options this month: the lower-cost B-Series and the memory-intensive M-Series.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 12, 2017
A new "hybrid modern authentication" capability is now generally available for Skype for Business and Exchange, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2017
Microsoft highlighted its progress on the Kubernetes-on-Azure front this week at the KubeCon event in Austin, Texas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2017
Microsoft this week released a preview of a new Whiteboard app that lets office teams collaborate on a "digital canvas" that displays hand-written notes, images and drawings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2017
Microsoft is offering some help to users of its OneDrive Sync Client in the form of new tutorials.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2017
Microsoft this week showed how SharePoint site customizations differ between the "modern" SharePoint Framework Extensions (SPFx) approach and the "classic" model.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2017
The next major version of Microsoft's ERP solution for small and midsized businesses is now generally available.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 04, 2017
Microsoft recently detailed new Office 365 improvements, as well as confirmed that Office Mobile apps will be coming to Google Chromebooks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 04, 2017
The biggest security incident of the year serves as a reminder for organizations to refocus on and prioritize strong network defenses.
- By Chris Paoli
- December 01, 2017
A recent Microsoft Teams update brings new management perks and improvements for end users to the Office 365 collaboration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Edge browser apps for Android and iOS devices.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 01, 2017
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled some programmatic changes to its partner structure during its AWS re:Invent Global Partner Summit this week in Las Vegas.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 30, 2017