In a survey of online smartphone user reviews, Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ranked first in customer satisfaction, despite being the least-reviewed.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 04, 2012
Inside the Microsoft Windows 8 development labs, the company had a few dozen PCs and other peripheral devices used to test its first preview of its new OS and Metro interface. Here are nine of them.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 03, 2012
RCP asked 19 channel luminaries for their best piece of advice for the year ahead. Here are their tips on ways to make 2012 a banner year for Microsoft partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 03, 2012
Forrester Research report finds waning consumer interest in a Windows-based tablet.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 03, 2012
The fight for market share is intensifying, and as a result the costs for a share point of growth are getting frightfully more expensive.
- By Mike Harvath
- January 03, 2012
Microsoft would not comment on a report that states the company is planning to allow customers to host Linux servers on its Windows Azure cloud service this year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 03, 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE: For many partners, matching their priorities with Microsoft's is a sure-fire way to boost business. Conveniently, Microsoft has just listed its top priority areas -- or "priority workloads" -- for the Microsoft Partner Network. Here they are, along with the related products and competencies for each.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 31, 2011
Microsoft has lost the bid to provide cloud-based e-mail and calendaring services to the University of California, Berkeley, which announced this week that it has chosen Google Apps for Education over Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 23, 2011
Microsoft is pulling out of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) after the next conference, scheduled for January 2012.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 21, 2011
Here are the most popular in-depth feature articles on RCPmag.com for 2011.
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.