Microsoft created a new partner category when it launched Office 365 to fix the billing problems that vexed partners with BPOS. But there's a catch.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 04, 2011
Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel has been named the new Federal CIO, replacing Vivek Kundra, who was the first to hold that position.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- August 04, 2011
According to Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond, Android is under attack from intellectual property lawyers at Microsoft, Apple and Oracle.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2011
On Monday, Microsoft made available the second release of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2011, a suite of seven tools for IT professionals running Windows environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2011
Laplink Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Bellevue, Wash., has rolled out an upgraded channel partner program for PC resellers, VARs and system integrators.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2011
Microsoft made its Dynamics AX 2012 product generally available in 25 countries on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 01, 2011
A long-running dispute regarding Microsoft's use of a patented Alcatel-Lucent software technology called "Day" culminated on Friday with a jury awarding Alcatel-Lucent $70 million in damages.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2011
For Microsoft global alliance partner Dimension Data, the OpSource acquisition both takes the company to the cloud, and gives it a more multivendor presence up there.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2011
Google has purchased 1,030 patents from IBM that cover server and router architectures, chip fabrication and search technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 30, 2011
Red Hat Linux operating systems running on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor now have continued interoperability support, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2011
Upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to IE 9 can represent a significant cost benefit to organizations -- more than $3 million over three years, in fact.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2011
The Windows Phone 7 "Mango" update has officially hit the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2011
Developers do not have access to the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Phone 7 "Mango" that was released on Tuesday; instead, Microsoft said, they will receive an early release candidate (RC) version.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2011
Microsoft officially released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 on Tuesday to MSDN subscribers, with general availability -- via Microsoft stores and resellers -- slated for this Thursday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- July 26, 2011
With Microsoft rolling out more of its key business applications in the cloud, the channel must prepare. But in interviews at Microsoft Convergence, partners and customers are finding the cloud is just one more reason to re-emphasize good old-fashioned services.
- By Barb Levisay
- July 25, 2011