Tag: Microsoft

  • Brisk Windows 7 Sales Boost Microsoft Profits

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp posted a bigger-than-expected 60 percent jump in quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of Windows 7, and said it expected business technology spending to recover this year. The world’s biggest software maker said on Thursday that net profit came to $6.7 billion, or 74 cents per share, for its fiscal second… Read more

  • Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft Join Level 3 Network Partner Program

    Jessica Davis

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    Fiber-based communications network provider Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) is launching a new Content Delivery Partner (CDP) program for direct resellers, VARs and device vendors, with inaugural partners such as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), aimed at expanding the reach and value of Level 3’s broadcast and content delivery services. Billing itself as a telepresence-ready network provider, Level… Read more

  • IBM Debuts Partner Benefits for LotusLive

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    LotusLive is gaining traction, securing more than 18 million subscribers since the on-demand collaboration services became available in 2009, but IBM partners have, for the most part, been left out of the deals. At last week’s Lotusphere 2010, Big Blue unveiled its LotusLive Labs and a slew of new partner benefits to make it easier… Read more

  • Microsoft, Intuit Target Small Business, QuickBooks Cloud Computing

    Jessica Davis

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    Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are teaming up to deliver Web-based applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center, calling on their respective .NET and Intuit Partner Platform Developers to extend existing applications such as QuickBooks to make them more useful to small businesses. The two companies say that developers and channel partners… Read more

  • Microsoft Calls for Laws to Ensure Privacy, Security in the Cloud

    Jessica Davis

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    If you’ve talked to your business customers about whether they have plans to move any of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, you’ve heard the same set of concerns—security and privacy. Today Microsoft called on government leaders to take action to alleviate those concerns by passing legislation to modernize criminal law to address crimes committed… Read more

  • Microsoft, HP Do Right by Partners

    Lawrence Walsh

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    In the closing months of 2009, as the world tried to close the books on a terrible year, Cisco Systems tapped Avnet and WestCon to distributed its blade servers and enable resellers to go to market with the foundational building blocks of its Unified Computing Systems. The announcement was the culmination of nearly nine-months of… Read more