Tag: Microsoft
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Workshare Offers Workshare Compare for PowerPoint
Microsoft partners looking to add some incremental value to Microsoft Office sales, take heed. Workshare has introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, software that tracks changes to Power Point presentations that have been edited and reviewed by users besides the author. It’s a need that’s on the rise. Workshare says that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations… Read more
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Zlago, NMGI Partner to Tackle Accounting Market
At the ConnectWise Partner Summit today, managed service provider Network Management Group Inc. (NMGI) and Zlago, a provider of cloud-based Microsoft applications and services, will announce a strategic partnership to form a master VAR relationship to enable resellers to deliver cloud apps to the accounting market. According to the joint announcement, NMGI will resell Zlago’s… Read more
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Microsoft to Set Up Cloud Research Center in Taiwan
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan’s economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company’s first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing — the hosting and storage of services and data on remote centralized computers, is expected to cut… Read more
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Ingram Micro Offers Intermedia`s Cloud Email
VARs eyeing a cut of the cloud craze should take a closer look at Intermedia, Ingram Micro’s new partner in cloud-based email and collaboration tools. The two companies announced this week that they inked a deal to offer Intermedia’s hosted Microsoft email and collaboration solutions to Ingram Micro’s vast reseller community through Ingram Micro’s Seismic… Read more
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Former Microsoft Open Source Maven Talks Up Cloud
For three years, Sam Ramji was Microsoft’s point man on open source and Linux as its senior director of open source strategy, which didn’t make him the most popular guy in town in the world of community-built software. Ramji, however, is less likely to be such a lightning rod in his new job leading product… Read more
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Microsoft Profits, Sales Fall — But Beat Expectations
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s quarterly profit fell a smaller-than-expected 18 percent on Friday, as the world’s largest software company held up better than feared, sending its shares up 8 percent. The company, which released its new Windows 7 operating system this week, reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $3.57 billion, or 40 cents per share, compared… Read more