http://www.channelinsider.com Microsoft - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:00:58 -0400 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:00:58 -0400 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:22:23 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Get-Ready-For-The-Big-Picture-Digital-TV-is-Almost-Here/?kc=rss - Digital TV is on the way. And in case you've missed the persistent FCC ads, the switch to DTV means analog televisions will no longer work come February 2009. While plenty has been written about what the DTV switch means for TVs with rabbit ears, little has been said about the DTV transition on PCs....]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Get-Ready-For-The-Big-Picture-Digital-TV-is-Almost-Here/?kc=rss Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:13:50 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Yahoo-Channelizes-to-Battle-Microsoft-Ichan/?kc=rss - Yahoo is getting bossy in its battle to stave off Microsofts takeover ambitions. According to published reports, Yahool is launching its “build your own search service” project or BOSS through which it will partner with third-party search engines to take share away from Google. In other words,...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Yahoo-Channelizes-to-Battle-Microsoft-Ichan/?kc=rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:13:10 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-to-Deliver-SQL-Server-2008-in-August/?kc=rss - HOUSTON -- Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2008 will be available in August with no price increase. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 here, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Server and Tools business, announced that Microsoft would make SQL Server 2008 avai...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-to-Deliver-SQL-Server-2008-in-August/?kc=rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:21:20 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Two-New-Planets-Join-Microsofts-Solar-System/?kc=rss - The Planet today announced the launches of two new satellite brands that will offer customers more service choices and allow the company to go head-to-head with Rackspace and other hosting providers, including, perhaps, Microsoft's own online services. The Planet announced its entry into managed ho...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Two-New-Planets-Join-Microsofts-Solar-System/?kc=rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:02:18 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Partner-Initiatives-Pricing-Take-Shape/?kc=rss - HOUSTON - Microsoft started its Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 with a series of announcements including a new pricing and partner model for Microsoft Online Services, as well as other announcements around the company's effort to focus on a software-plus-services strategy. Indeed, d...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Partner-Initiatives-Pricing-Take-Shape/?kc=rss Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:42:23 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Kicks-Off-WPC-Announces-Essential-Server-Solutions-Launch/?kc=rss - Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) kicks off today in Houston, Texas, and the software giant's ramping up for the release of Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) and Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) which could help partners increase their customer base by 25 percent to 50 p...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Kicks-Off-WPC-Announces-Essential-Server-Solutions-Launch/?kc=rss Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:43:43 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Revamps-Partner-Program/?kc=rss - Solution providers who want to rise to prominence in Microsofts partner program will need to sharpen their technology focus and prove their business and customer-service mettle under new program rules being drafted by the software makers channel executives. st1\:* The program chang...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Revamps-Partner-Program/?kc=rss Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:52:45 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Bill-Gates-Bids-Teary-Farewell-to-Microsoft/?kc=rss - REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home. He leaves Microsoft, which he co-founded w...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Bill-Gates-Bids-Teary-Farewell-to-Microsoft/?kc=rss Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:18:35 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Without-Gates-Microsofts-Channel-Changes-Little/?kc=rss - In our celebrity obsessed culture, we make superstars of musicians, elevate rich heiresses and B-movie actresses to global fame and create entire communities devoted to showcasing our own crudely produced Web videos. So its little wonder that the departure of a corporate icon such as Bill Gat...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Without-Gates-Microsofts-Channel-Changes-Little/?kc=rss Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:09:57 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/No-Guarantee-of-Success-for-Microsofts-HyperV-Virtualization/?kc=rss - With the release to manufacturing of Hyper-V, Microsoft is hoping that Windows Server 2008 users will see the product as the de facto virtualization product for the enterprise. Whats more, Microsoft is looking to use Hyper-V as a catalyst for the expanded adoption of Windows Server 2008. While those...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/No-Guarantee-of-Success-for-Microsofts-HyperV-Virtualization/?kc=rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:35 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Top-Software-Vendor-ISV-Partner-Programs-Rated/?kc=rss - While Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com each offer a channel program for ISV partners, not all programs are the alike, and partners should evaluate each carefully to find the best fit before they allocate their scarce resources to one or the other. A new study from Forrester Research...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Top-Software-Vendor-ISV-Partner-Programs-Rated/?kc=rss Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:51:27 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/A-PC-TuneUp-to-Improve-Vista-Performance/?kc=rss - By Frank J. Ohlhorst One of the biggest complaints users have about Vista is slow performance. With Vista, slow boot ups and application launches are mostly the nature of the beast. After all Vista is chock full of services and code to help protect users from threats. Large Software is ...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/A-PC-TuneUp-to-Improve-Vista-Performance/?kc=rss Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:56:51 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Move-Over-AJAX-Microsoft-Pushing-ARAX/?kc=rss - Move over, AJAX; Microsoft is pushing a different scenario, known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML, or ARAX. At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers in Portland, Ore., on May 30, John Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, told eWEEK that as Microsoft's Silverlight rich I...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Move-Over-AJAX-Microsoft-Pushing-ARAX/?kc=rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:06:47 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Boosting-Revenue-While-Reducing-Channel-Conflict/?kc=rss - Channel conflict is a dirty word for most reseller partners, but in a world where vendors are looking to squeeze the most out of all their sales channels, VARs sometimes end up butting heads with a vendor's direct-sales reps. To help mitigate channel conflict at the same time it increases revenue o...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Boosting-Revenue-While-Reducing-Channel-Conflict/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:04:02 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Learning-To-Love-UAC/?kc=rss - User Access Control in Windows Vista has been such a controversial development that it's worth re-examining periodically. Let's restate the purpose of UAC: It is to allow the user to run the system as a standard user, not administrator, and still have relatively easy access to privileged oper...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Learning-To-Love-UAC/?kc=rss