Tag: Microsoft

  • Unified Communications Will Create Both Opportunity and Peril

    Unified Communications Will Create Both Opportunity and Peril

    Michael Vizard

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    Starting next week Microsoft will be banging the drum in earnest about the value of unified communications within the context of Microsoft Office. This push by Microsoft should be welcomed by the channel primarily for two reasons. The first is that it creates an application that has enough gravitas in terms of increasing productivity of… Read more

  • Ballmer Threatens Linux and Open Source with Patents Again

    Ballmer Threatens Linux and Open Source with Patents Again

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    At a small meeting of Web 2.0 developers and partners on Oct. 1 at Microsoft’s London office, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once more attacked Linux and open source for violating Microsoft’s patents. The meeting was a Microsoft-sponsored event: the UK Microsoft Startup Accelerator Programme launch event called The Online Opportunity. According to Lars Lindstedt, who… Read more

  • The Planet to Host Microsoft Small Business Server

    The Planet to Host Microsoft Small Business Server

    Pedro Pereira

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    Hosting company The Planet has partnered with software behemoth Microsoft to widen the reach of Windows Small Business Server through a software-as-a-service arrangement. On Aug. 28, Houston-based The Planet will launch a partner program built around hosted SBS whose goal is to make it easier for VARs and integrators to sell the product to their… Read more

  • Deshaies Lays Out Microsoft Partner Strategy

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Mike Vizard:One of the things that struck me through all of the presentations was a mention of Microsoft wanting to work more on the profitability of the partners. There were mentions of the blueprints that you’re doing, and mentions of the Web site work and the ability to let people find each other and compare… Read more

  • Collaboration, Reporting Highlight Level Platforms Release

    Collaboration, Reporting Highlight Level Platforms Release

    Chris Gonsalves

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    Level Platforms is readying changes to its flagship managed services platform—including bolstering reporting tools and adding support for Microsoft Vista—that will enhance usability, security and performance, especially for MSPs looking to join forces on customer engagements, according to officials. The Ottawa-based vendor will announce on August 7 version 6.0 of its Managed Workplace MSP (managed… Read more

  • Microsoft Rolls Out Key Development Tool Betas

    Microsoft Rolls Out Key Development Tool Betas

    Darryl K. Taft

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    REDMOND, Wash.— Within the next few days, Microsoft will release key development technology to help developers build applications across a variety of platforms, including the Web, desktops, servers and mobile devices. In an interview with eWEEK at the Microsoft campus here July 25, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the developer division, said Microsoft… Read more