What Microsoft's partners learn about the new Windows Store when it opens this month may have major implications for the future of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 08, 2012
The Small Business Competency will probably arrive in May, based on Microsoft's pattern of releasing MPN changes.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 18, 2012
For starters, this tablet thing seems to be really taking off.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 14, 2011
Now that the main elements of Windows 8 seem locked down, will Sinofsky be more forthcoming with information for Microsoft's hardware partners?
- By Scott Bekker
- November 09, 2011
The era of Windows 8, for better or worse, has begun.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 03, 2011
There has been activity among Microsoft's appliance partners revolving around Azure -- but you wouldn't know it from this year's WPC, where the product played a backstage role.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2011
Microsoft created a new partner category when it launched Office 365 to fix the billing problems that vexed partners with BPOS. But there's a catch.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 04, 2011
There are three reasons why Windows Phone "Mango" will finally move the needle for Microsoft in the smartphone market.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2011
While Apple and even IBM are rocketing up the polls in brand ranking, Microsoft's brand has been dropping. What gives?
- By Scott Bekker
- June 27, 2011
For some reason, Microsoft is being stingy with the partner licenses for Windows Intune, the cloud-based systems management and security toolset that launched in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2011
In a channel network that's 640,000 strong, it's a tall order to address the multitude of questions, concerns and grievances that partners may have. Thankfully, the leaders of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group seemed eager to hear them all.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2011
If Microsoft doesn't get BPOS billing right, the sharks will certainly be circling.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 01, 2011
Pros and cons, and thoughts on intermixing business and personal on the popular social network.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 01, 2011
Microsoft needs to reconsider its practice of directly billing cloud computing customers if the company expects to gain serious traction among partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2011
Microsoft executives know the switch to the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) is delicate.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2010