Lead with pain points, not the Windows Intune brand. Leverage Windows Intune to help SMBs upgrade to Windows 7. Pair Windows Intune sales with Office 365. Look for business incentive fund (BIF) opportunities.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2011
Oracle on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire Endeca Technologies Inc., a provider of software called MDEX Engine that allows users to gather and analyze unstructured data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 18, 2011
Many of Microsoft's business intelligence (BI) partners are already preparing for how tablets will transform the way enterprises present and consume information.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 18, 2011
Microsoft began rolling out the second generation of Windows Intune, called "Wave 2," on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2011
One of Microsoft's key strategies for improving the market share of Windows Phone is to get the smartphones into partners' hands. Anecdotal evidence and an informal RCP survey suggest partners are taking up the devices. Will their customers follow?
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2011
Perhaps to head off early concerns, Microsoft has posted a series of blogs on its "Building Windows 8" site that describe the reasoning behind the Metro UI.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2011
IBM this week fleshed out its SmartCloud public and private cloud portfolio and said it is enabling its wide network of partners to deliver its cloud products and services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 14, 2011
Microsoft spent Day 2 of this week's PASS Summit in Seattle outlining some of the new features in the next release of SQL Azure, which the company said will land sometime during Q4 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 13, 2011
Microsoft has officially dropped the "Denali" code name from its next-generation relational database management system, which is now called simply "SQL Server 2012."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 12, 2011
Microsoft's largest acquisition arrives with potential promise as well as possible pitfalls.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- October 11, 2011
Microsoft has confirmed that it has stopped production of its standalone Zune media players.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2011
Microsoft released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008 on Thursday, about one year after the release of SP2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2011
Jared Spataro, a senior director of SharePoint product management at Microsoft, explained the nuances of the keynote in an interview during the Anaheim, Calif. conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2011
Microsoft announced this week that Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007, expected by year's end or sooner, will be "likely final" for both products.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 07, 2011
Microsoft is one step closer to finalizing its $8.5 acquisition of Skype with this week's approval from the European Commission.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 07, 2011