Microsoft's Power BI for Office 365 preview was updated last week with new data sourcing and search capabilities on the heels of similar improvements rolled out in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013
From Windows Phone 8's storage shenanigans, to PRISM, to the shrinking PC market, here are the blogs and commentary articles that riled up RCPmag.com readers the most this year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 16, 2013
A European Union court recently dismissed Cisco's antitrust challenge to Microsoft's acquisition of Luxembourg-based Skype.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2013
Microsoft's mobile app for Office 365 administrators is now available for devices based on Google Android and Apple iOS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2013
Windows 8 was a big draw for RCPmag.com readers this year, but other products also made headlines. Here are the most-read news items of 2013.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 12, 2013
A quick primer on how Microsoft's field salespeople are compensated -- and how you can make that knowledge work for you as a partner.
- By M.S. Partner
- December 12, 2013
Microsoft this week took part in the Dell World event to lay out various virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) capabilities enabled by Windows Server 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2013
From our Windows 8 and Surface 2 reviews to our MPN roadmap, here are the in-depth articles RCPmag.com readers paid the most attention to this year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 11, 2013
Few dispute that SharePoint in the cloud is the future. The challenge for partners and customers is determining the best path to get there.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 10, 2013
The Microsoft product release wave reportedly code-named "Threshold" comprises at least three future product "SKUs" (stock-keeping units) for Windows, according to a recent report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2013
Time runs out on new sales of the venerable Windows Small Business Server this month. Having had plenty of warning, the SMB partner community is already moving on.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 09, 2013
The Windows 8.1 "preview" beta release that became available in June will expire in January 2014, according to a Microsoft blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2013
Microsoft recently released Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) for Exchange Server 2013, as well as Update Rollup 3 (RU3) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2013
Microsoft refreshed its lineup of PC-tablet hybrids this fall with the Surface 2 and the Surface Pro 2. The hardware is compelling, but channel incentives are lagging.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 04, 2013
Microsoft's proposed $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business has received the approval of federal antitrust regulators.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 04, 2013