According to a post on the Microsoft Office Blog, businesses are currently adopting Office 2010 five times faster than they did Office 2007.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The cards have been stacked against Windows Phone 7 since the outset. Will Mango be enough to swing the smartphone game to Microsoft's favor?
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2011
According to a study commissioned by Seattle-based Azaleos Corp., one of Microsoft's top Gold Certified Partners, midsized and large businesses remain reluctant to adopt unified communications (UC) services over a public cloud.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 15, 2011
Market research firm Gartner has lowered its 2011 forecast for PC shipment growth due to shifts in consumer spending and the rising popularity of other portable computing devices, such as tablets.
- By David Nagel
- June 14, 2011
Users of the aging Windows Mobile 6 operating system will soon be transitioned to Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive storage service, Microsoft announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 13, 2011
Putting the latest version of the Microsoft CRM tool through its paces, we found many worthwhile improvements among the 500 or so new features that give Microsoft partners an even more solid competitor to Salesforce.com and Oracle.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- June 10, 2011
On Thursday, eight justices in the U.S. Supreme Court denied Microsoft's appeal in the long-running patent infringement case involving Toronto-based i4i LLP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2011
RCP's 5th annual Salary Survey finds partner salaries in 2011 are holding steady. That's a big improvement after the drop last year, and many partners see reasons for optimism about their personal fortunes as they look into their pipelines for the remainder of 2011.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 09, 2011
Microsoft acquired Pleasanton, Calif.-based Prodiance Corp., which provides enterprise risk management products, on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2011
Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) product has reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced Tuesday. The solution is expected to become generally available on July 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2011
Fujitsu will offer commercial cloud services using Microsoft's Windows Azure platform beginning in August, according to a joint announcement from the companies on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2011
Does Microsoft's planned acquisition of Skype pose a threat to Cisco's leadership in the unified communications (UC) space? Analysts say it depends.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 07, 2011
Microsoft is making headway in its patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola pertaining to the Android mobile operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2011
Microsoft partner executive announces release date for the successor to BPOS, which adds Office integration.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 03, 2011
Microsoft showed off "Windows 8," the codename for its newest operating system, on Wednesday evening at the D9 Conference, which took place this week in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2011