Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft Issues Hyper-V Release Candidate

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft made the feature-complete Release Candidate for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V available to customers and partners March 19, as the company moves to meets its own August deadline to deliver the final code. "This is a key milestone signaling that Microsoft is on track to deliver Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization by August 2008," Bill Hilf,… Read more

  • Polycom Chimes In on Microsoft OCS Integration

    Paula Musich

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—Polycom on March 17 will join the growing chorus of vendors integrating with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 with new high-definition video and audio conferencing links to OCS.   Polycom high-definition audio and video as well as Telepresence endpoints and infrastructure will integrate with OCS 2007 to allow end uses to easily make voice… Read more

  • Microsoft GM Gives Peek at Platform-as-a-Service Strategy

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—At Microsoft’s annual Convergence Dynamics user conference here this week, Brad Wilson, general manager for customer relationship management at Microsoft, sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Renee Boucher Ferguson to talk about Microsoft’s quiet platform-as-a-service strategy that’s emerged with CRM 4.0, the company’s December 2007 release of CRM that includes multitenant, on-demand capabilities. Read… Read more

  • Ballmer Reaffirms Commitment to Dynamics Apps

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—Despite the revolving door management history at its Dynamics applications division, Microsoft is steadfastly committed to the Dynamics brand. That’s the message Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer imparted to the 9,500 Dynamics partners, customers and potential customers in attendance at this year’s Convergence conference: Dynamics is Microsoft’s brand for its four ERP (enterprise resource planning)… Read more

  • N-able, Microsoft Enter Interoperability Agreement

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Managed services platform provider N-able announced it has entered into a strategic technology and marketing agreement with Microsoft that will help its managed services provider partners become more efficient and more profitable. Under the agreement, N-able’s N-central 6.5 managed services platform software will be compatible with Microsoft’s System Center Essentials 2007 product line, according to… Read more

  • Microsoft Poaches Oracle`s Channel Chief

    Jessica Davis

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    Microsoft poached Oracle’s top channel executive, not to head its own channel organization, but to lead its Dynamics ERP/CRM channel. Doug Kennedy, Oracle’s former worldwide channel chief and a 16-year veteran of the company, will now head the Microsoft Dynamics Partners business, as of March 24, Microsoft confirmed. Late last week Oracle confirmed that it had appointed… Read more