Microsoft on Thursday announced three additional free extensions to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 that can boost the capabilities of the customer relationship management platform.
Google took a step toward greater enterprise adoption of its hosted e-mail, document and collaboration services today by removing the "beta" tag from its Google Apps brand.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/07/2009
Azaleos Corp. now offers hosted and installed e-mail solutions based on Microsoft Exchange technologies.
Networking giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed an interest in the hosted productivity suite space that Microsoft is poised to dominate.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/01/2009
Many IT professionals don't trust their enterprise resource planning infrastructure to a hosted model, but some who have taken a chance found it worth the risk.
Google came through with fixes to its newly introduced e-mail and calendar synchronization application that works with Microsoft Outlook.
Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is now available, company officials announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/24/2009
Microsoft found a problem with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a new data synchronization plug-in launched by Google last week.
Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed answered some questions about the software giant's business prospects on Wednesday at an investment firm-sponsored technology conference.
Google just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches, said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/27/2009
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, fielded questions from financial analysts at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
VMware on Thursday announced the general availability of the vSphere 4 family of virtualization products.
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/12/2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
The middleware software market has entered the slow lane in 2009, according to a Gartner report announced on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/07/2009
Microsoft announced that it is seeking customers willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.
Microsoft's "Perspectives" on its relationship with the open source world creates confusion by being pragmatic in some places and too friendly in others.
Companies looking to reduce costs through cloud computing will have to make some tough decisions about security.
- By Naomi Grossman
- 05/01/2009
Microsoft on Monday stepped up its services push by announcing a partner-driven effort to deliver hosted Microsoft applications in 19 countries.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/28/2009