The coming year brings some novel challenges for resellers who are in the midst of planning.
- By Keith Lubner
- 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
Bullish on the cloud, and bullish on Microsoft's prospects to be a major cloud player with a vibrant ecosystem of cloud partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 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
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
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 28, 2010
According to a Microsoft financial report released today, the first fiscal quarter of 2011, ending on Sept. 30, brought in 16.20 billion in revenue.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 28, 2010
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2010
Microsoft today announced a partnership deal with Cloud.com to help integrate Microsoft's proprietary hypervisor into the OpenStack project.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2010
New York City has struck a deal with Microsoft for a single, citywide license for the company's software under which the city, operating in a cloud computing environment, will pay only for the applications that employees use.
- By Kevin McCaney
- October 21, 2010
Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based version of a suite of productivity tools that combines SharePoint, Exchange, Lync (formerly Communications Server), and both the Office Web applications and the Office Pro Plus desktop client.
- By John K. Waters
- October 19, 2010
An industry-sponsored study, announced on Wednesday, gauged interest in Lync Server 2010, Microsoft's newest unified communications solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2010
A recent survey shows that one of the greatest challenges facing the adoption of cloud computing is that the industry isn't selling it very well.
- By Keith Ward
- October 14, 2010
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based AVIcode Inc., a provider of .NET application performance monitoring software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 07, 2010
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went to Europe this week to help sell the Internet cloud, a key Microsoft business area.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 05, 2010
Microsoft today named new companies that have subscribed to its hosted Exchange/SharePoint services, as well as colleges and universities that shifted to its Live@edu services.
- By David Nagel
- October 04, 2010
Partners who are "in the cloud" can get specific help with sales, services and marketing.
- By Keith Lubner
- October 01, 2010
Microsoft's determination to dominate the market for online services has never been as evident as it was at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Why is it moving so aggressively into that space?
- By Paul DeGroot
- October 01, 2010
SLAs reportedly affected by three BPOS interruptions in August and September.
Three-tier model brings field resources, MDF, per-deal subsidies to U.S. partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010