Microsoft Announces Small Business Specialist Community
New designation within the Microsoft Partner Program helps partners that focus on the small-business space differentiate themselves and better serve their customers.
Microsoft Announces Small Business Specialist Community
Microsoft Announces Small Business Specialist Community
At an open Q&A session for Microsoft Business Solution partners, Microsoft brass got an earful of what is still bothering them on the ERP and CRM sides of the house, as well as about Microsoft's evolving plan to get them to sell vertically.
Microsoft Partners Question Microsoft's Vertical Push
Microsoft Partners Question Microsoft's Vertical Push
This article walks through a working example of the registration-free activation of a .NET-based component by native clients via COM Interop.
Registration-Free Activation of .NET-Based Components: A Walkthrough
Registration-Free Activation of .NET-Based Components: A Walkthrough
This article walks through a working example of the registration-free activation of a native COM component by native clients and, via COM Interop, by a managed client.
Registration-Free Activation of COM Components: A Walkthrough
Registration-Free Activation of COM Components: A Walkthrough
The Windows Server System bundles several products and comes with copies of Windows Server, Exchange Server and Microsoft Operations Manager.
Microsoft Launches Bundle for Midsize Market
Microsoft Launches Bundle for Midsize Market
Rather than targeting the small/mid-size business market as a single entity, Microsoft is putting in place separate products and programs for small and mid-size customers.
Microsoft Seeks to Decouple the 'MB' From SMB
Microsoft Seeks to Decouple the 'MB' From SMB
The company's Information Worker unit is dabbling with search and other potential future products in its incubator.
What's Microsoft Growing in the 'Greenhouse'?
What's Microsoft Growing in the 'Greenhouse'?
Microsoftâ€
s investment in midsize businesses represents opportunity for partners to give these customers the utmost confidence in their systems.
Microsoft Delivers Windows Server System Promotion as First Step in Helping Midsize Businesses Obtain Maximum Return on IT Investments

Microsoft Delivers Windows Server System Promotion as First Step in Helping Midsize Businesses Obtain Maximum Return on IT Investments
Announces software bundle that saves such companies up to 20 percent if they buy a set of three Microsoft programs.
Microsoft courts midsize businesses with server bundle
Microsoft courts midsize businesses with server bundle
Only a third of Windows XP machines have the SP2 security update loaded, a Microsoft exec says.
XP owners shunning security update
XP owners shunning security update
Agreement establishes Alien Technology as one of the key partners in the software giant's RFID initiative.
Microsoft gets friendly with Alien
Microsoft gets friendly with Alien
A talk with Sanjay Parthasarathy, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism.
.NET Rocks! - Carl and Richard Talk with Sanjay
.NET Rocks! - Carl and Richard Talk with Sanjay
France Telecom and Microsoft announced a strategic deal to co-develop innovative products and technologies that enable customers to benefit from the new opportunities of the digital world through innovative convergent services.
After the Signature of a Strategic Partnership France Telecom and Microsoft Today Unveil Two Major Initiatives
After the Signature of a Strategic Partnership France Telecom and Microsoft Today Unveil Two Major Initiatives
In this episode Alex Sutton and Marty Hough show us the improvements to the system and application event logging model that will make it easier for applications to expose details about their operational processes.
Management Services
Management Services
In this chapter from his upcoming book, David Pallmann discusses how service, data and message contracts are created in order to build interoperable services.
Programming Indigo: Contracts
Programming Indigo: Contracts
This paper outlines the media-related features and enhancements provided by the Real-Time Communications (RTC) platform.
Media Support in the Microsoft Windows Real-Time Communications Platform
Media Support in the Microsoft Windows Real-Time Communications Platform
In a chapter from his upcoming book, David Pallmann describes the Indigo programming model for building service-oriented applications.
Programming Indigo: The Programming Model
Programming Indigo: The Programming Model
The patch fixes a glitch in Micrsoft's Tablet PC operating system that allowed its electronic pen input to slowly take over the computer's memory.
Microsoft posts Tablet PC fix
Microsoft posts Tablet PC fix