Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based version of a suite of productivity tools that combines SharePoint, Exchange, Lync (formerly Communications Server), and both the Office Web applications and the Office Pro Plus desktop client.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/19/2010
An industry-sponsored study, announced on Wednesday, gauged interest in Lync Server 2010, Microsoft's newest unified communications solution.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based AVIcode Inc., a provider of .NET application performance monitoring software.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went to Europe this week to help sell the Internet cloud, a key Microsoft business area.
Microsoft last week announced the availability of Windows Live Essentials 2011, a free consumer suite of applications designed to connect Windows users to the Internet cloud.
Microsoft today named new companies that have subscribed to its hosted Exchange/SharePoint services, as well as colleges and universities that shifted to its Live@edu services.
Microsoft this week rolled out a dashboard tool for customers around the globe using its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) hosted services.
The state of Minnesota has embraced Microsoft's Internet cloud services by agreeing to an application outsourcing deal.
Microsoft today released BizTalk Server 2010 to its hardware manufacturing partners, which means that products will ship to customers soon.
New release aimed at broadened use of Windows HPC Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/21/2010
Microsoft this week disclosed that its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) had three service outages that affected BPOS customers in North America in August and September.
Microsoft today released a beta of its upcoming customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.
In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2010
Microsoft provided more information about security for Windows Azure, publishing a talk and white paper.
Microsoft announced on Monday that a "preview" of Windows Small Business Server codenamed "Aurora" is now available for download.
Microsoft today updated some of its free tools to help users move to Microsoft SQL Server and released a new Oracle MySQL migration tool.
Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have reached an out-of-court settlement concerning alleged patent violations.
Microsoft today said it is readying a tool that will let non-programmers develop desktop- and cloud-based business apps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/03/2010