If the initial session list is any indication, Microsoft is stacking its forthcoming Worldwide Partner Conference with lots of Windows Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM content. But its staple products will get their turns in the spotlight, too.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2012
Organizations that have not yet migrated from the venerable Windows XP operating system are "really, really late," according to Gartner Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 24, 2012
A Microsoft executive explained the company's cloud-centric corporate strategy on Tuesday at a financial analyst event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 10, 2012
Microsoft Gold Certified partner Quest Software recently unveiled its line of solutions for businesses migrating to Office 365 and Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2012
A few clues about Microsoft's product roadmap for this year and the next were unearthed recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2012
Mainstream support for Windows Vista ends Tuesday, according to Microsoft's Vista lifecycle chart.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2012
A study commissioned by Azaleos Corp., a Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI) partner, has found that Microsoft's public cloud Office 365 offerings are not always cheaper than other Microsoft-stack approaches.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2012
Microsoft is slashing the prices of many of its Office 365 plans by about 20 percent effective immediately, the company said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 16, 2012
A leaked screenshot allegedly of "Office 15" suggests Microsoft's next-generation productivity suite will have support for touch.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2012
Microsoft revealed more details this week about what to expect with Windows 8 on ARM, or "WOA." In fact, the company might even have provided too much information.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2012
Microsoft announced some upcoming enhancements to the so called "kiosk worker" plans in its Office 365 offering last month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2012
The next generation of Microsoft's productivity suite, code-named "Office 15," is now in the technical preview stage.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 30, 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE: For many partners, matching their priorities with Microsoft's is a sure-fire way to boost business. Conveniently, Microsoft has just listed its top priority areas -- or "priority workloads" -- for the Microsoft Partner Network. Here they are, along with the related products and competencies for each.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 31, 2011
Microsoft has lost the bid to provide cloud-based e-mail and calendaring services to the University of California, Berkeley, which announced this week that it has chosen Google Apps for Education over Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 23, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: In Part 2 of our Q&A with Microsoft's Tom Rizzo, he discusses Office 365's momentum and how Microsoft's advisor and syndication partners are contributing to its growth.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 20, 2011