The next release of Microsoft's Forefront Identity Manager product will be renamed "Microsoft Identity Manager," and will be released by mid-2015, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
Two Microsoft Azure Active Directory synchronization features were released as "previews" this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
Our former Microsoft field rep shares some insights about how Microsoft operates and what's behind the company's attitudes toward its partners and employees.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 23, 2014
A second update to Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is reportedly in the pipeline this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2014
Microsoft has re-released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013, after deactivating the download link earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2014
Redwood City, Calif.-based Equinix Inc., a provider of space, power and interconnection products and services for companies, is adding Microsoft's Azure ExpressRoute technology to its datacenters worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2014
Microsoft has inked an intellectual property licensing deal with Motorola Solutions Inc. that covers the use of the Android and Google Chrome OS operating systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2014
The new CEO's mantra of "mobile- and cloud-first" has some uncomfortable implications for partners -- one of them being the possibility of competition from Microsoft itself.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- April 21, 2014
Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business will be finalized this Friday, the two companies announced.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 21, 2014
Microsoft has lowered the cost for its custom support services for Windows XP, according to a report from Computerworld.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2014
Enterprise interest in Lync is surging, and Microsoft's partners are taking advantage by freshening up their UC hardware offerings. Check out some of the highlights from this year's Lync Conference.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- April 16, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new data platform products: the Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service (ISS) and the Analytics Platform System (APS).
- By David Ramel
- April 16, 2014
A new automation feature for managing Microsoft Azure workloads became available as a preview on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2014
Microsoft solution providers will now be able to bill their customers directly for using Windows Intune.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 15, 2014
Industry watchers are predicting that software-defined networking (SDN) will be one of the most disruptive new technologies for the next several years.
- By David Ramel
- April 15, 2014