When Microsoft overhauls the Online Suite as Office 365 next year, it will include Office desktop products in the subscription. An analyst calls the change a "mixed bag" for the channel.
- By John K. Waters
- December 01, 2010
Attendees at SMB Nation Fall 2010 see peril and opportunity in the rise of cloud computing.
- By Rich Freeman
- December 01, 2010
Release on HP hardware marks integration of technology from DATAllegro acquisition into the flagship Microsoft database technology family.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2010
Microsoft has shipped 240 million copies of Windows 7, and businesses are heavily engaged in migrations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 01, 2010
Microsoft executives know the switch to the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) is delicate.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2010
The coming year brings some novel challenges for resellers who are in the midst of planning.
- By Keith Lubner
- November 01, 2010
You can't re-enroll as a Gold Certified or Certified Partner anymore, but you can keep using the logos until next October.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
Partners might be wondering what their role selling Microsoft solutions will be when the bulk of services are offered direct to customers online.
- By Paul DeGroot
- November 01, 2010
Midsize ERP product will feature role-specific dashboards.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2010
Today's distributors do much more than ship products and track orders -- it's too bad some channel partners don't know it.
- By Rich Freeman
- November 01, 2010
Redmond's massive investment in forward-thinking cloud infrastructure is spreading across the globe, indicating that Microsoft will be worth partnering with for years to come.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
Updates cover deal registration, membership structures, the Elite designation and market development funds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010
Stuxnet may be the first known precision malware weapon designed to destroy a single real-world industrial facility, but the collateral damage affects the entire Microsoft channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
A quick look at the first phones based on Windows Phone 7 to ship from AT&T on Nov. 8 in the United States.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010
Will the cloud replace tape and local disk as the preferred means of protecting enterprise data? Though this was once unthinkable, cloud storage is starting to gain momentum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010