Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft to Offer More Cost-Effective Site Licenses to SMBs

    Jessica Davis

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    Microsoft is expanding its Open Value Licensing program in a way designed to make it more attractive for channel partners to sell site licenses to their SMB customers. The program previously only offered the more expensive perpetual software licenses. But on March 3 Microsoft will announce Open Value Subscription – a new option that enables… Read more

  • Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company’s closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday. "We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better… Read more

  • Microsoft Sees Hike in Profit

    Channel Insider Staff

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    By Daisuke Wakabayashi SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft signaled confidence to a rattled stock market by raising its full-year earnings outlook above Wall Street targets and reporting a 79 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday. Analysts took the results as a good sign for technology companies in the face of a slowing economy, and Microsoft… Read more

  • Objectworld Beefs Up Bundles for SMBs

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Objectworld, a unified communications software provider, has revealed three product bundles aimed at helping VARs target the SMB sector. The three products—Objectworld UC Server Standard Edition, Objectworld UC Server SIP Edition and Objectworld UC Server CEBP (Communications Enabled Business Process) Edition—are currently available to all of Objectworld’s channel partners, said Martin Suter, the company’s CEO.  … Read more

  • Connecting Point Acquires Kortek in Vegas VAR Merger

    Connecting Point Acquires Kortek in Vegas VAR Merger

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Connecting Point announced Jan. 14 it has acquired Las Vegas-based Kortek Services, adding 120 Kortek customers and strengthening its Microsoft competency. The deal closed Jan. 1 for an undisclosed sum. “We’d been talking about a merger with Kortek for two-and-a-half years and the timing was finally right this year,” said Ron Cook, chairman of Connecting… Read more

  • gOS 2.0 – Where for Art Thou?

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Billed as a Linux for the masses, gOS was supposed to revolutionize the low end of the PC market. Version 1 of the OS took Wal-Mart shoppers by storm last year and the big box retailer’s stash of Everex gPCs running gOS was quickly depleted. Many are hoping for a repeat performance due to the… Read more