Consultancy Directions on Microsoft recently offered a few suggestions on how to buy Microsoft's newest server, when it becomes available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 17, 2013
At the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft laid out a major overhaul of the 3-year-old Microsoft Partner Network. The changes send several important messages about how the software giant is thinking about its partners and their role.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2013
In January 2014, Microsoft will boil 25 competencies and one quasi-competency down to 22. Here are the key changes (and a list of the competncies that remain unchanged).
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- September 16, 2013
Several media reports indicate Microsoft is planning a voice assistant for its Windows Phone platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 16, 2013
Organizations moving to Windows 8.1 will have three approaches to consider when dealing with the updated operating system, according to a webinar Thursday by Gartner Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 13, 2013
How do you differentiate yourself from the competition? If the answer is your "commitment to customer satisfaction," you'd better examine how truthful that is.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- September 12, 2013
Global shipments of traditional PCs will begin to lose ground to tablet shipments starting in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to recent analysis from IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 12, 2013
Devices running Intel's "Bay Trail" family of power-saving processors are due to arrive from hardware makers in the fourth quarter of this year, Intel said on Wednesday during its Developer Forum event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 12, 2013
Microsoft is widely expected to unveil new Surface RT and Surface Pro devices at an event in New York on Sept. 23.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 11, 2013
During Tuesday's keynote presentation at its Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel laid out its vision for a broad range of its activities -- from building chips for datacenters, PCs, smartphones and personal wearable devices, to "the Internet of things" world of connected devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 11, 2013
Microsoft on Monday joined Google, Facebook and Yahoo in filing amended motions to disclose more details about customer data access requests from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 10, 2013
Last week, a jury awarded Microsoft $14.5 million in damages stemming from a dispute with Google-owned Motorola Mobility.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2013
Steve Ballmer unveiled a much anticipated major reorganization intended to change the conflict orientation of Microsoft's culture to one of shared focus. Some of the winners in Ballmer's new structure are familiar faces. Others are being pulled into the spotlight from deeper within the organization.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 09, 2013
Microsoft allowed its MSDN and TechNet subscribers to download the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2013
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a preview of a new distributed cache service for Windows Azure-hosted applications as part of a set of improvements to the cloud platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 06, 2013