The lower startup and maintenance costs, quicker ROI and increased productivity of the cloud, particularly with Windows Azure, may greatly expand the number of ISVs seeking to build their own channels.
- By Keith Lubner
- January 01, 2011
Microsoft needs to reconsider its practice of directly billing cloud computing customers if the company expects to gain serious traction among partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2011
This time, Rizzo pulls no punches when it comes to talking down Google's effort to compete against Microsoft, and also discusses future integration opportunities with Windows Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 28, 2010
Microsoft's Online Services Director explains how Office 365 fits into the partner ecosystem, and how the transition from BPOS to Office 365 will work.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 22, 2010
Microsoft today announced that its Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 product is available for evaluation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2010
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the availability of the release candidate version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2010
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and 9 Web browsers demonstrated better protection against socially engineered exploits than other browsers, as described in a September NSS Labs report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2010
Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 15, 2010
Rackspace Hosting is looking to make cloud computing appealing to a broader set of customers that might not have the resources or acumen to manage systems and apps in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 15, 2010
F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2010
Microsoft last week released the first service pack for its 2010 Forefront messaging and collaboration management product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2010
Microsoft today announced that the Standard version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 has been rolled out to hardware manufacturers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2010
Google announced an e-mail continuity service on Thursday to support premises-based Microsoft Exchange.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2010
The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- December 09, 2010
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2010