Microsoft has a history of changing tacks in its partner strategy, for good and sometimes for ill. Its partners should take care not to get left behind.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- January 09, 2014
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft's hardware partners have unveiled a slew of innovative devices running Windows 8.1 during this year's Consumer Electronics Show. We gathered some of the more interesting ones in this gallery.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 08, 2014
Microsoft is acquiring Parature, a provider of cloud-based customer service solutions for organizations, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2014
Microsoft recently posted the pricing details for Power BI, its suite of solutions designed make it easy for Excel users to create visualizations from collections of data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2014
Microsoft recently gave more details about its emerging Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) licensing plan, which it briefly described in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2014
A licensing expert recently gave advice on Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 licensing, which can come with some costly pitfalls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 23, 2013
Microsoft has named Jim DuBois its new chief information officer (CIO), the company announced on Friday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 20, 2013
It is now possible to switch Office 365 plans across "product family" offerings, Microsoft announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 20, 2013
Microsoft's search for a successor to outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer is not likely to conclude before the new year, the company said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 18, 2013
Microsoft will stop selling its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) product on July 1, 2014, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2013
Microsoft will unveil the next major update to its Windows Phone 8 smartphone platform next April, according to a report from The Verge on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 17, 2013
Microsoft's Kurt DelBene has been appointed to take over the much-maligned HealthCare.gov Web site, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 17, 2013
An appeal by Motorola Mobility LLC over an intellectual property dispute with Microsoft over the Android operating system was struck down on Monday by a three-judge U.S. federal appeals court.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013
What will 2014 bring? RCP's stable of experts know, and they share their insights on everything from cloud and hybrid to new business models to the coming frenzy of Windows XP replacement.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 16, 2013
Microsoft last week released a "limited preview" trial version of a new georedundant option for the Windows Azure Storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013