Microsoft Business Solutions Group's annual Convergence conference, which focuses on the company's business applications, drew thousands of customers and partners to Dallas in late March.
SurfControl partners with En Pointe in a global VAR agreement.
Since leaving Microsoft seven years ago, Sam Jadallah has stayed close to
the industry and Microsoft. Currently, he's a general partner at the Menlo
Park, Calif., venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures. One of the sectors
he invests in for the firm is software, which makes his inside knowledge
of Microsoft highly valuable. In an e-mail interview with <i>Redmond Channel
Partner</i> magazine, Jadallah assessed the changes in the Microsoft Partner
Program since his departure.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/24/2006
Gates gets rockstar-like treatment as thousands come out to greet him during his visit to give Vietnamese high-tech efforts a boost.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/22/2006
Microsoft will fight for the way it conducts future business next week as it urges the European Union's second highest court to overturn an antitrust ruling that ordered it to pay a record $613 million fine.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
Latest effort to obtain documents in its EU antitrust case fails.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have united on a standard set of components for desktop versions of Linux.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
Microsoft will re-release one of its April security bulletins on Tuesday to fix a flaw in the patch that caused applications to crash on systems running either an older Hewlett-Packard utility or certain NVIDIA drivers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/21/2006
A New York court has quashed a Microsoft Corp. subpoena aimed at compelling IBM to hand over documents related to the software giants's European antitrust case.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
A 25-year-old man has been charged with hacking into the University of Southern California's computer system and accessing information about student applicants.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
Free Standards Group releases latest desktop standard set of components.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
While PC sales are on the uptick, Dell still manages to lose ground to rivals HP and Lenovo.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
Think accessing the Web from your mobile phone is an idea whose time hasn't yet -- and may never -- come? But you hate lugging even a three-pound notebook everywhere you go?
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/20/2006
Westchester County on Thursday enacted a law that is designed to limit identity theft by forcing local businesses to install basic security measures for any wireless network that stores customers' credit card numbers or other financial information.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
Apple Computer Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit rose 41 percent, beating Wall Street estimates, as sales of its iPod players continued to soar and Macintosh computer shipments increased by 4 percent.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
Exchange administrators are constantly under the gun to keep their messaging servers up and running without hiccups. And Zenprise is giving those companies a bit more insurance in that regard with the latest release of the company's flagship product, Zenprise 2.0, the service-management software for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/20/2006
Investors looking for signs of just how painful the past few quarters have been for Intel Corp. need look no further than the company's revised spending plans.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed the U.S. software company's commitment to the Japanese market Friday as he kicked off a campaign here to offer some free technology help to nonprofit organizations.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
Computer shipments rose at a faster-than-expected 13 percent worldwide in the first quarter, and the No. 1 PC maker, Dell Inc., lost ground to rivals, two technology research firms reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
Hoping to become less dependent on Internet advertising, online search engine leader Google Inc. is introducing a tool designed to make it easier for companies and their workers to find vital information scattered across a maze of complex software applications.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2006