Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft Partner Initiatives, Pricing Take Shape

    Darryl K. Taft

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    HOUSTON – Microsoft started its Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 with a series of announcements including a new pricing and partner model for Microsoft Online Services, as well as other announcements around the company’s effort to focus on a software-plus-services strategy. Indeed, during the opening keynote address, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division,… Read more

  • Microsoft to Deliver SQL Server 2008 in August

    Darryl K. Taft

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    HOUSTON — Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2008 will be available in August with no price increase. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 here, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Server and Tools business, announced that Microsoft would make SQL Server 2008 available in August. Kelly also said that on Sept. 8,… Read more

  • VMware CEO Resigns, Stock Tumbles

    Pedro Pereira

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    Virtualization vendor VMware disclosed Tuesday that its founder and CEO Diane Greene has resigned and been replaced by former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz. The company also cut its 2008 revenue growth forecast, saying it will be “modestly below” its previous forecast of 50 percent growth over 2007. Wall Street reacted quickly, sending company shares tumbling… Read more

  • Microsoft Kicks Off WPC, Announces Essential Server Solutions Launch

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) kicks off today in Houston, Texas, and the software giant’s ramping up for the release of Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) and Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) which could help partners increase their customer base by 25 percent to 50 percent. SBS and EBS, collectively known as Windows Essential… Read more

  • Microsoft Revamps Partner Program

    Chris Gonsalves

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    Solution providers who want to rise to prominence in Microsoft’s partner program will need to sharpen their technology focus and prove their business and customer-service mettle under new program rules being drafted by the software maker’s channel executives. The program changes coincide with an organizational realignment this week that split Microsoft’s U.S. Partner Business into… Read more

  • Bill Gates Bids Teary Farewell to Microsoft

    Channel Insider Staff

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    REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) – Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home. He leaves Microsoft, which he co-founded with childhood friend Paul Allen in… Read more