Microsoft’s move into what it calls “unified communications” will spark a turf war with powerful players, including PBX makers and Cisco, that will all attack the market from their ...

Three years ago, Cisco and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to bring a broad range of certified collaboration ...

So Microsoft duly launched its unified communications onslaught Tuesday and the blogosphere is all abuzz now that Microsoft is butting heads with Cisco (and a host of PBX and other UC vendors). The ...

Think of the great rivalries that you know: good vs. evil; Red Sox vs. Yankees; Hertz vs. Avis; Duke vs. UNC; Microsoft vs. (in order) IBM, Novell, Netscape, AOL ...

In a discussion moderated by TV interviewer Charlie Rose, Microsoft CEO Ballmer and Cisco CEO Chambers labored to map out the contours of their "sophisticated" alliance. As the lines blur between ...

You've deployed Cisco voice or video and Microsoft Skype for Business... now how do you make them interoperate? If your organization is like many others, you've got a mix of Cisco and Microsoft ...

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are both blue-chip technology stocks that usually generate stable returns for long-term investors. But over the past three years, Cisco's ...

Last month saw Microsoft update its Azure AI Foundry with agentic capabilities, getting a little help from both Cisco and the open-source community. Through the new Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure’s ...

AI is quickly changing the business landscape in nearly every category. Many leaders are giddy with the promise that AI will automate mundane tasks, write code, contextualize data to support ...