Oracle's surprising revenue and earnings miss have stirred some fears that IT spending may be in for a rough ride in 2012. However, others say it's too early to tell whether such concerns are valid.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 21, 2011
From reasons to hate Twitter to what's plaguing Windows Phone, here are the blog posts that got RCPmag.com readers riled up the most.
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
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Part 1 of our two-part Q&A with Microsoft's Tom Rizzo. He talks about the cloud, Office 365's recent compliance coup, and why Google Apps wouldn't be missed if it got shuttered.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 19, 2011
Here are the breaking news articles that RCPmag.com's readers were most interested in over the past 12 months.
According to consulting firm Directions on Microsoft, organizations assessing the Enterprise Agreement (EA) licensing changes that Microsoft issued in July will face no big surprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2011
Gartner analysts say that while the three companies are different, they are competing in the same battlegrounds: social networking, portals and collaboration, mobile device operating systems, the Internet cloud and e-mail.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2011
Microsoft on Tuesday made its consumer-oriented SkyDrive cloud storage service available for Windows Phone-based devices and, somewhat surprisingly, for Apple mobile devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2011
For starters, this tablet thing seems to be really taking off.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 14, 2011
Microsoft's Windows Phone Division has a new leader, the company announced on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 13, 2011
Microsoft made the final version of Silverlight 5 available via download on Friday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- December 12, 2011
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is planning a future R2 product release of BizTalk Server 2010, but did not reveal an exact release date.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2011
All this cloud hype will finally come to a head next year. Here's what your business needs to do to get ready.
- By Keith Lubner
- December 08, 2011
A beta of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will be released in late February, a Microsoft official confirmed on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2011
Besides revealing the approximate release date of the Windows 8 beta, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled details about its forthcoming online store for selling Windows 8 Metro-style applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2011