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December 3, 2009

Turn in Your Boss, Get Paid

Microsoft is hoping to recruit more end users to join its ongoing battle against software piracy. As part of this year’s awareness push, yesterday was named Consumer Action Day by the company, with... More >

November 3, 2009

Add Lower Prices on Microsoft Cloud Apps to CIO List of Criteria

Prices for Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite and for Exchange Online are lower, as of today, as outlined in this InformationWeek article . At the same time, Microsoft announced both a l... More >

October 20, 2009

Business Communications and the Sidekick User

As the first data restoration becomes available today to T-Mobile Sidekick users who lost contacts, photos and other information stored on their mobile devices, Microsoft execs are applying the les... More >

Why Performance Management? A Guide for the Midsize Organization

Read this white paper to learn how midsize companies can use performance management solutions to gain competitive advantage without breaking the bank.

Path Aware Performance Management for HP EVA and XP Arrays

This white paper addresses how current storage infrastructure performance challenges can be resolved through the right storage performance management solution.

October 14, 2009

Microsoft's Smart Energy Reference Architecture Ready for Utilities

The $4.5 billion assigned to smart grid project funding from the $700 billion-plus U.S. stimulus package has been called inadequate by some, given the size of the job. However, so early in the proces... More >

September 25, 2009

Changes to Dynamics AX Reflect Industry-Specific Needs

In a couple of respects, Microsoft Dynamics looks different at the end of this week than it did at the beginning. Yesterday, Microsoft discontinued mobile access for Dynamics AX and Dynamics NAV . A... More >

September 2, 2009

Analyst Likes Windows 7's Business Focus

Directions on Microsoft has created for its subscribers a 40-page report, "Windows 7: An OS for Business."   The October release of Windows 7 creates an interesting dynamic. While every OS rele... More >

August 13, 2009

Gazelle Closer to Shutting Down Browser Security Weaknesses

Researchers at Microsoft are set to send out more information this week on their work developing a browser/OS combo, the components of which are named Gazelle and ServiceOS . Head researcher Helen W... More >

July 27, 2009

SQL Server Team Points out Price

A post Friday on the Microsoft SQL Server News Blog takes the news that Oracle increased prices on some of its database management services by as much as 40 percent as an opportunity to point out... More >

July 24, 2009

Microsoft Office 2010, Gazelle Projects Try to Balance Security, Performance

Microsoft Office, a target of a steady stream of vulnerability exploits, will get a set of new defenses in the 2010 release. Brad Albrecht, Senior Security Project Manager for Office 2010, writes on ... More >

July 17, 2009

Microsoft Attacks Spim with Lawsuit

Many Windows Live Messenger users are probably hoping that with its civil lawsuit against a company named Funmobile , Microsoft is just beginning an ongoing effort to reduce spim. Microsoft Associat... More >

July 9, 2009

Progress Toward Green Requires More Cooperation Between Tech Users, Providers

When Greenpeace released its most recent Guide to Greener Electronics this month, Nokia and Samsung retained their first and second place rankings as leaders in green tech and practices in the ... More >

July 3, 2009

Survey: Single Sign-On Tops List of Challenges

Asking the right questions is often the key to new directions, as Quest Software found out this year in conducting its annual user survey at The Experts Conference.   Each year, the systems mana... More >

June 25, 2009

Windows 7 Has the Touch

Some of the folks anxious to see how the coming launch of Windows 7 goes over are those hoping that the operating system's touchscreen or multitouch capabilities will increase demand for their touch-... More >

June 18, 2009

Microsoft's 'Browser for the Better' Mines for Millennials

Over in the discussion area of our Knowledge Network, Lisa Orrell, author of "Millennials Incorporated," is fielding questions from readers about millennials in the workplace , as well as broader ge... More >

March 26, 2009

Some of the Shows Will Go On

Ahead of Interop in Vegas this May , I assigned one of my editors the task of talking with some of the 400-plus exhibitors slated for the trade show about the decision-making process that led them ... More >