Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft to Launch New Licensing Option for SMBs

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Microsoft is extending its Open Value Subscription scheme to small and midsize businesses in the United States and Canada. The new licensing option allows SMBs to subscribe to Microsoft software licenses for a three-year term, said Eric Ligman, senior manager, community engagement for Microsoft’s small business unit. During that term, all purchased licenses are covered… Read more

  • VARs Scramble for Training on ‘Disruptive’ OCS Technology

    VARs Scramble for Training on ‘Disruptive’ OCS Technology

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Some Microsoft partners believe Office Communications Server could double their business, sparking a rush to get up to speed on the new unified communications technology. To help get VARs up to speed, Techtionary, an online provider of rich media tutorials and technology training, announced the week of Dec. 24 that it will add a Microsoft… Read more

  • VARs Still Wary of Vista

    VARs Still Wary of Vista

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    VARs are still reluctant to upgrade either themselves or their clients to Vista despite Microsoft’s recent deluge of service packs, release candidates and the early release of Office 2007 Service Pack 1. Since Dec. 5, Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 RC1, Windows XP SP3 RC1, Windows Vista SP1, and Dec. 11 the Redmond, Wash.-based… Read more

  • Microsoft Releases Virtualization Beta

    Microsoft Releases Virtualization Beta

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft has released a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology known as Hyper-V, which will be included in three versions of Windows Server 2008 when it ships early next year. The release of the Hyper-V beta is ahead of schedule. Microsoft officials said previously it would be available in the first quarter of… Read more

  • Microsoft Clubs Counterfeiters

    Microsoft Clubs Counterfeiters

    Brian Prince

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    Microsoft is once again after resellers hawking counterfeit Microsoft goods worldwide. In the past several weeks, the software giant has filed 52 lawsuits against resellers who allegedly sold counterfeit Microsoft software on various online markets. Fifteen of the 52 lawsuits involved software traced to a Chinese counterfeiting syndicate, broken up earlier this year by Chinese… Read more

  • Trintech Becomes a Microsoft Certified Partner

    Trintech Becomes a Microsoft Certified Partner

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Trintech Group on Dec. 4 announced it has attained Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program and added a competency in ISV/Software Solutions. Trintech is a financial and compliance solution provider for commercial, financial and health-care markets. Trintech developed a product “factory” that allows pieces of software to be “reused” and integrated into the… Read more