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Microsoft insiders question top leadership

Given the number of high-profile executives leaving Microsoft in recent months, there are some inside (and out) of the company that wonder if Steve Ballmer is the problem, rather than the solution, for Microsoft.

Microsoft makes Azure more palatable

  Microsoft execs, including server and tools chief Bob Muglia, have long maintained that the Azure price model was sound and clear as a bell. This despite developers and other would-be...

Ray Ozzie sums up Microsoft services effort

 Ray Ozzie's new "Dawn of a Day" blog entry takes stock of Microsoft's move into services and, not surpisingly, gives the company high marks for its Windows Live and other efforts. Ozzie,

Westcon helps data center solution providers take a LEAP

Data center technology distributor Westcon Group has opened its first LEAP Center in the United States. LEAP is an acronym that stands for Learn, Experience, Architect and Plan. As you might expect, the intention behind these facilities is to help IT solution provider test, train on, and experiment...

Ray Ozzie leaving Microsoft gig

Ray Ozzie is leaving his post at Microsoft, company CEO Steve Ballmer said today. In a memo to staff posted to the company's Web site, Ballmer wrote: 

"With our progress in services and the...

Beware of sharing, beware of Facebook

Granted, Facebook is addictive. Especially the Scrabulous/Scrabble part which is what got me hooked. For many others,  Zynga's FarmVille, Mafia Wars game portfolio is the original hook. And for those people--there's a rude awakening. Without knowing it, they have "overshared" their data.

Microsoft-Citrix V-alliance push piggybacks on VMworld Europe

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/HpLmj4-lfAg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]   As we all know, VMworld Europe is all  about Microsoft and Citrix. Or so say Microsoft and Citrix.

Oracle: The world’s scariest software company

With apologies to Google and Microsoft,  Oracle may be the scariest software company on the planet. Continued »

Clearing up the Gold mess at Microsoft

Still have questions about the Microsoft Gold, Advanced, no Gold competencies? Here's an explanation of the...

Microsoft makes bite-sized services available to partners

Microsoft has tweaked its "Services Ready" deliverables to make the more flexible and affordable for VARs and integrators.