An experiment with deal registration for Microsoft partners suggests that the company is looking for alternatives to its current reseller structure. As with many changes, this is fraught with both opportunity and risk.
- By Paul DeGroot
- July 01, 2010
Microsoft partner member organization adjusts name, U.S. chapter lands new engagement model with Microsoft field.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2010
In the battle to get customers to pay attention to backup and recovery offerings, it's important to know your enemy.
- By Christa Ayer
- June 15, 2010
The Blackberry maker so far has maintained its lead in the smartphone segment, but Apple and Google present worthwhile challenges that keep RIM working harder to stay at the top.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 15, 2010
Deal puts much of Microsoft's IT operations into a global contract with major Indian SI.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 01, 2010
Once you're clear on strategic objectives, you can begin to build a sales compensation plan for your BPOS practice.
- By Ken Thoreson
- June 01, 2010
Microsoft partners want to put the worst economic times in recent memory behind them, but results from this year's survey indicate doubts linger that compensation will rebound in the next 12 months.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 01, 2010
Microsoft has released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint, which provides protection against viruses and spyware being spread through shared files.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2010
When I think of Microsoft and the tablet market, I think of a line from the 2004 David Mamet movie "Spartan" -- "You had your whole life to prepare for this moment. Why aren't you ready?"
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2010
While traveling recently, I had an epiphany. If we want to move our businesses forward, we first must move ourselves forward.
- By Keith Lubner
- June 01, 2010
As hosting providers are squeezed, could Microsoft cloud services offer a safe haven?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 01, 2010
Never before has the word "convergence" been so appropriate a description of enterprise-software offerings from Microsoft.
- By Lee Pender
- June 01, 2010
National Systems Integrators are the rock stars of the U.S. Microsoft Partner Community. Is it a designation worth aspiring to?
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2010
One of the main architects of the Windows 7 success left Microsoft in January. But he's back, and he's going to ply his trade for the software business of one of Microsoft's biggest and oldest partners.
- By Lee Pender
- June 01, 2010
When a lot of innovative and hungry people gather in one place, the results can be explosive. That's what is taking place in the mobile segment, and Microsoft is just getting started.
- By Paul DeGroot
- June 01, 2010