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Microsoft to sell Office 'value pack' for $70 per year Microsoft has chosen the name "Equipt" for a forthcoming package of products that includes its Office suite, Internet security software and other services, and will sell it for an annual subscription fee of $69.99. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft sets hosted-services pricing, irks partners Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing for its forthcoming hosted business productivity services and unveiled its channel model for allowing partners to resell those services. However, while the company painted a rosy picture for the partner opportunity around its evol Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to offer Web-streamed Office Worried by the small but growing number of small businesses and consumers switching from Microsoft Office to cheaper or free online alternatives such as Google Apps, Microsoft plans to arm a key cohort of its formidable legion of partners to help fight the threat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft updates Office Live Small Business Microsoft has updated its Office Live Small Business hosted service with new e-commerce and marketing tools to help small businesses sell their products and services online.The new version of Microsoft's service Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's cloud forms At the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft made its biggest foray yet into cloud computing with pricing and partnership arrangements for Microsoft Online Services, a family that includes Online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications, Of Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion-dollar quest to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for the Apache Web server. Zemlin ha Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sizing up Microsoft and Yahoo: Did anybody win? Now that Microsoft has dropped its bid to take over Yahoo, industry analysts assessed what happened and what to expect from the two companies.Microsoft gave up its effort to acquire Yahoo because the software co Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's ODF support points to OOXML challenges Microsoft's plan to include ODF (OpenDocument Format) support in its Office suite next year reflects continued challenges for the OOXML (Open Office XML) file format as the industry moves ahead with adopting ODF and sorts out OOXML's troubles. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's offer to Yahoo's board In a letter to Yahoo's board, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered to acquire the company for a per-share price of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock -- a 62 percent premium above the Jan. 31, closing price of Yahoo -- and cited the broad rang Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft to support ODF, PDF in Office next year Microsoft is finally adding support for ODF (OpenDocument Format for Office Applications) and Adobe PDF to its Office productivity suite, the company announced on Wednesday.Support for ODF and PDF will be includ Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we hav Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft beats forecasts for Q2 Microsoft beat Wall Street expectations for both revenue and EPS (earnings per share) for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, attributing its strong quarter to sales of core client products, such as Windows Vista and Office 2007, as well as Exchange and SharePoint server Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft cuts retail Vista prices Microsoft on Thursday said it plans to slash prices for retail copies of Windows Vista up to almost 50 percent for certain editions in poorer countries, in order to boost sales that one analyst said have failed to meet expectations. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft offers subscription licensing for small businesses Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company's software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.The plan, called Open Value Subscr Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft confirms testing of 'Albany' low-cost Office suite Microsoft on Friday confirmed it is planning to release a subscription-based "value box" of low-end productivity software code-named Albany, and has sent an early version of the product to thousands of beta participants for private testing. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft releases SP1 for Office 2008 for Mac On Tuesday, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2008 for Mac, designed to add stability, security, and performance enhancements to the suite of office applications. The update features suite-wide fixes, as well as improvements to the individual applicat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new translator for exchanging OOXML (Office Open XML) and HTML documents. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Customers frustrated over Microsoft virtualization licensing For all the flexibility server virtualization affords today's IT departments, there's one type of flexibility IT managers would love to have but aren't likely to get: the ability to save money on Microsoft software licenses. Even when carving a physical server into mu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |