Microsoft and its partners discover that virtualization offers real opportunity-especially to those arriving early to the party.
- By Keith Ward
- November 01, 2008
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can help bridge the traditional gap between IT and telephony while offering rich new opportunities for partners from both camps.
- By Fred Bayles
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft is cleverly undermining Apple's "I'm a PC" tagline -- a harbinger of humiliation -- by turning it into a positive affirmation.
- By Paul DeGroot
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft has come up with a toolkit consisting of Windows Gurus and Windows store-within-a-store kiosks at major retail stores to boost the image of Windows Vista. Will the effort be enough?
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 31, 2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2008
Microsoft will join a working group to support an open standard for multiplatform messaging in the enterprise, according to a company statement issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 30, 2008
Microsoft will release a beta of the second service pack for Vista "to a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers."
- By Herb Torrens
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 29, 2008
An IDC study found that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations don't have solutions in place to prevent data leakage over e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 29, 2008
It looks like that Redmond's hunch was correct when it issued an out-of-cycle security patch late last week, because on Wednesday Microsoft identified publicly available exploit code related to that vulnerability.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Becky Nagel
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft may have reaffirmed its commitment to cloud computing with the launch of its Windows Azure operating system, but overall business adoption of the cloud concept may be stymied, in part, by security issues.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 28, 2008
Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- By Michael Desmond and Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 28, 2008
Microsoft announced the new Live Framework during a Tuesday keynote that addressed Windows 7 and other tools and technologies that will comprise the front-end infrastructure of the company's unfolding Software plus Services strategy.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 28, 2008