by Michael Osterman
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is an annual event that this year drew 12,900 attendees (9.300 partners and 3,600 Microsoft employees) to downtown Los Angeles for a multi-day set of...
by Michael Osterman
I have been following the cloud industry since the late 1990s, long before it was called the “cloud.” Way back then—and, for many, still to this day—the primary objections to the cloud...
by Stephanie Jordan
Recently the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite—Federal (BPOS-F) the authorization to operate (ATO) under the Federal...
by Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale
The headline intrigued and annoyed me, “Court upholds ban on former
Microsoft worker taking job with competitor.” I didn’t see coverage of
this down here in California or in any...
by Ben Gross
Inbox Love, a new conference on email, will be held on February 25th at the Microsoft Conference Center in Mountain View, California. The speakers and sessions look great. 500 Startups’ (Dave...
by Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale
Kansas City-based Adknowledge, the largest privately owned
online advertising company in the U.S., raised over 200 million this January in a combination of debt and equity financing to fuel its...
by Michael Osterman
Mary-Jo Foley has written an interesting piece about Microsoft’s lack of attention on the iPad, seemingly more interested in the future of Windows-based tablet PCs. That’s certainly not a surprise on...
by Stephanie Jordan
Reducing IT complexity has been a
goal for many enterprises for the past few years. As is typical of a trend, many
factors contribute to this desire to simplify today’s IT infrastructures,
systems...
by Michael Osterman
Microsoft’s announcement recently that its hosted Exchange service would drop in price from $10 to $5 per seat per month, coupled with the announcement that BPOS would drop from $15 to $10 per month...