With the launch of the Microsoft Partner Network in November, Microsoft forced 400,000 partners to decide how they'll fit their businesses into the new structure. In our annual survey, readers reported how they're planning to adapt.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, while Mac users can expect SP1 of Office for Mac 2011 to arrive next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
Microsoft intends to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service, the company said on Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 11, 2011
The cloud got significantly more crowded this week, with Microsoft, IBM and Dell each announcing major initiatives.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 08, 2011
After a light Patch Tuesday in March, Windows security experts can expect a deluge of updates next week, based on Microsoft's advance notice on Thursday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 08, 2011
Dell Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in cloud computing over its next fiscal year, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
A new $12 million partnership between Microsoft and Toyota Motor Co. will allow automobile owners to access car telematics technologies via the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2011
IBM accelerated its cloud push on Thursday, when it announced the launch of SmartCloud, a product designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, a new private cloud solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
There was a distinct cloud slant at some of the major IT players' recent partner confabs, with Cisco, IBM and VMware each rolling out new programs to help their partners transition customers to the new computing paradigm.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
According the latest CDW-G Unified Communications Tracking Poll, unified communications adoption has doubled in the United States over the past year, with many organizations moving their UC implementations to the cloud.
- By David Nagel
- April 06, 2011
Worldwide marketing service firm Epsilon revealed on Friday that its clients' customer data, which the company used in e-mail campaigns, have been breached.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 05, 2011
With Windows Intune's availability, Redmond's cloud lineup for partners spans the back office, CRM, systems management and Infrastructure as a Service.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 05, 2011
"The big migration" from Windows XP and Office 2003 is coming, according to research firm Gartner, and IT pros should be prepared.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2011
Microsoft released on Monday iSCSI Software Target 3.3, a Windows Server 2008 R2 addition that allows for shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI protocol.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2011
Microsoft is planning some licensing changes that it says would benefit its Software Assurance (SA) customers and service provider partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2011