Redmond Channel Partner magazine updates its comprehensive and authoritative annual roadmap of upcoming products from Microsoft over the coming year. Although 2012 was one of the biggest release years in a long time, Microsoft still has a lot of significant updates for the year ahead, including the rumored Windows "Blue," the "Apollo Plus" update for Windows Phone 8 and the complete Office 2013 suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 22, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Microsofties' startup called SkyKick automates the process for partners to sell, plan, provision, migrate, manage and set up Office 365.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 25, 2013
The Microsoft National Systems Integrators are a special group of U.S. partners with super-regional scale and special expertise. Here are the partners who made the list in this fiscal year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- April 22, 2013
With its Open Licensing move, Microsoft finally enlists all partners in the Office 365 effort.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2013
Microsoft is turbo-charging everything about its unified communications platform -- from customer adoption and partner engagement to multiplatform capabilities and release cadence.
- By Kurt Mackie, Scott Bekker
- April 03, 2013
The combination of Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 SP1 and Windows Intune have given Microsoft partners new opportunities to expand their businesses into the cloud. Here are a few examples.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Channel communities are key for partners who want to network, shore up resources and bolster their access to the larger organizations they are partners with. But given their wide variety, it can be a challenge for partners to know which communities suit them best. In this primer, Howard runs down the different types of partner communities to help you find the best fit for your partner company.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 11, 2013
From specialization to audience targeting, content creation, traffic generation and more, marketing consultant Barb Levisay offers proven tips for bolstering your name recognition.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 04, 2013
In a Q&A, D&H Distributing Co-President Michael Schwab says structural factors are giving Windows 8 a slow start, but he predicts some of those same dynamics will make the new OS a huge hit in the near future.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 30, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Windows Division may have been the star of Microsoft's recent Q2 FY'13 earnings report, but what other insights do the numbers reveal? RCP reads between the lines of Microsoft's latest financial earnings.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft is staking its mobile success on its just-launched smartphone platform, Windows Phone 8. The first devices are set to roll out in the coming weeks and months from major U.S. carriers including Verizon and AT&T. Here's what we know so far about the new lineup.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 24, 2013
With Windows 8, Microsoft aims to unify the tablet and PC interfaces in an ambitious experiment. In a month-long review, RCP finds the effort largely succeeds.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 14, 2013
Channel luminaries offer their best advice to help Microsoft partners succeed in the coming year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- January 04, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The short answer? It depends. For most U.S. solution providers, the MPN costs between $0 and $5,260. We break down the perks of seven cost levels so you can determine where your firm will get the most bang for its buck.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2012
Not to be outdone by Microsoft's own Surface RT offering, OEMs from Dell to ASUS are rolling out their own Windows RT-based tablets. Here are a few of the standouts.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 18, 2012
Yes, Windows RT is almost entirely consumer-focused. There are cases in which it makes sense for businesses, but partners must make sure their customers fully work through the pros and cons.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2012
Rage was the first reaction to the death of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server brand. Now resellers are making plans for what comes next.
- By Rich Freeman
- December 10, 2012
RCP asks Microsoft's Jon Roskill about the increase in price to gain the gold competency and the overall value of the 2-year-old Microsoft Partner Network.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2012
Hosting services providers have always been important stakeholders in Windows Server development. With the 2012 version and its Cloud OS emphasis, Microsoft hosters' needs come to the fore.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 26, 2012
OEMs looking to take advantage of the Windows 8 wave are flooding the channel with new, touch-capable models -- but many face pricing challenges. With the PC market struggling, what are the chances for the Ultrabook's success?
- By Scott Bekker
- November 09, 2012