Private equity firm Oak Hill Partners on Thursday said it acquired Exchange hoster Intermedia for an undisclosed amount. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- May 26, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the company's next-generation operating system on Monday in Japan, even going so far as to call it "Windows 8."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 24, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently detailed the licensing scheme for Windows MultiPoint Server, the company's shared resource computing solution for labs, schools and small businesses.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 24, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- May 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In the latest public-sector cloud win for Microsoft, the city of San Francisco has chosen to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 months.
                    
			            - By John  Moore
- May 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Service pack 2 (SP2) of Exchange 2010 will be released sometime in the second half of 2011, Microsoft revealed at its Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- May 18, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    There are broad-based products and there are niche products, but Kemp Technologies' latest product, unveiled this week at Tech-Ed, is a product that's aiming for a niche within a niche. 
                    
			            - By Lee  Pender
- May 18, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Consumer satisfaction for Microsoft software has reached a company high in 2011, according to the most recent release of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- May 17, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Besides spotlighting Microsoft's mobile plans and the upcoming Visual Studio vNext, Monday's keynote also focused on the cloud and the issue of managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.
                    
			            - By Kathleen  Richards
- May 17, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    "Cloud" was king at the first annual MVP Nation conference, but this year's gathering of Microsoft MVPs covered other topics as well. This is RCP's report of those discussions, straight from the show floor.
                    
			            - By Rich  Freeman
- May 17, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has announced improvements to Exchange 2010 that are designed to avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment. 
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- May 16, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will release the first service pack (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 by the end of June, the company announced today at the Tech-Ed 2011 conference.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- May 16, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Virtualization giant and cloud vendor VMware announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for servers and desktops.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- May 16, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) have experienced e-mail outages over the past few days.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- May 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A final legal judgment against Microsoft that was rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns expired on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 13, 2011