Program is newly opened to U.S. partners after trials in Europe and Australia.
- By Herb Torrens
- July 01, 2009
Microsoft formally ratchets up the percentage of its products that must be included in financed deals.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2009
While netbooks pose problems for Microsoft and partner business models, most indications show this computing trend is here to stay.
- By Rich Freeman
- July 01, 2009
First bundle under new distribution model will include Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2009
An overhaul of the Microsoft Partner Program is set to be unveiled at the Worldwide Partner Conference this month. The details are murky but "everything is on the table," including the program name--now the "Microsoft Partner Network."
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2009
A raft of new products are in the queue for delivery during the second half of 2009 and into 2010.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 01, 2009
Despite the ongoing recession, partner peer-group members are holding their own for now-and watching for the cloud on the horizon.
- By Anne Stuart
- July 01, 2009
Google came through with fixes to its newly introduced e-mail and calendar synchronization application that works with Microsoft Outlook.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2009
A Symantec survey reveals the "rising [disaster recovery] pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to the business."
- By Jim Powell
- June 30, 2009
Microsoft last week announced the availability of beta 2 of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2009
Microsoft's new Windows 7 "upgrade option program" for consumers and small businesses has a catch: the offer is restricted to buying 25 PCs or less.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2009
The general economic downturn is leaving its mark on IT salaries, according to an independent study released on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2009
Microsoft is working with the government to establish secure system settings that are expected to become the Federal Desktop Core Configuration for Windows 7.
- By William Jackson
- June 29, 2009
Gartner reported a better-than-expected first quarter for PC shipments and is now forecasting a healthy market recovery in 2010.
- By Herb Torrens
- June 26, 2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that hotfixes are now available to patch a SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) glitch that surfaced last month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2009