Amazon Web Services announced a new pricing plan today for all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: In a major change from BPOS, 20 hosters with value-added services will handle their own customer billing for Office 365. VARs and MSPs must still go through Microsoft in the Partner of Record model.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: (Previously "25 Things Partners Should Know About Office 365.") Microsoft just launched the much-anticipated successor to BPOS. Here's what every partner needs to know.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 29, 2011
Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets globally, the company announced today at a launch event in New York.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 28, 2011
Amid the buzz over Office 365's launch, Microsoft also released the first service packs (SP1) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 28, 2011
Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Fort Worth, Texas, recently rolled out four new cloud services based around Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 24, 2011
This week, Wyoming became the first state to "go Google," according to its state governor's office. Specifically, all 10,000 of the state's employees have moved to Google Apps for Government.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2011
Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange messaging service once again went down on Wednesday across North America, but the company says service has been restored.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 23, 2011
Microsoft will change the pricing for Windows Azure in July to allow for free inbound data transfers during peak hours as well as off-hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2011
Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business Division, spent 15 minutes on Wednesday answering questions about cloud computing, in particular relating to Windows Azure and the forthcoming Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2011
Microsoft rolled out an upgrade of Windows Live SkyDrive -- its free consumer-oriented cloud storage and file-sharing service -- on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2011
IT spending on public cloud services will grow at an impressive compound annual rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years, according to a recent report by IDC.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 21, 2011
Microsoft has released a beta of its System Center Orchestrator 2012 product, which is designed to support runtime automation when working with datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 21, 2011
According to a recent study by Forrester Research, use of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system at companies has more than doubled over the past year. However, the good news does not extend to Internet Explorer's browser market share.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The cards have been stacked against Windows Phone 7 since the outset. Will Mango be enough to swing the smartphone game to Microsoft's favor?
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2011