As part of the recent overhaul of its partner program, Microsoft made a big bet on leveraging existing social networks.
- By Naomi Grossman
- December 01, 2009
Long the subject of benign neglect, the Services Provider License Agreement has been rejuvenated in the last year with significant program changes.
- By Paul DeGroot
- December 01, 2009
Some partners worry that Microsoft is undercutting the value proposition of Exchange, selling below cost to fend off Google.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 29, 2009
Microsoft's decision to slash the price of Business Productivity Online Suite from $15 to $10 per month is not sitting well with some of its partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 13, 2009
Services Ready is a good idea, but it won't work in the long run unless Microsoft gets over it's paralyzing paranoia.
- By Paul DeGroot
- November 01, 2009
Attendees at SMB Nation 2009 assert their independence from Microsoft amid slowly improving market conditions.
- By Rich Freeman
- October 23, 2009
Chicago-based PointBridge sprinted out of the gate with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite -- to the tune of $640,000 in revenues in one year. Co-founder Todd Golden tells RCP how PointBridge did it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 01, 2009
Partners have 16 months to make the transition from the 6-year-old Microsoft Partner Program structure to the framework of the new Microsoft Partner Network.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2009
Deshaies moves on to unspecified project for Microsoft U.S. Leadership Team, and Watson moves other executives around her WPG orgchart.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 01, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the promotion of Brad Anderson, an executive who helped foster various server management products in the Microsoft System Center product line.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2009
Company CFO Chris Lidell called the quarter perhaps "the most difficult environment Microsoft has faced in its entire 30-year history."
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2009
To many outside Redmond, the inner workings of the company's fiscal year are baffling at best. Our quarter-by-quarter guide removes some of the mystery -- and helps partners profit by doing the right thing at the right time.
- By Rich Freeman
- August 01, 2008
Attendees at that first event in Maryland received a gift bag that included the Demo Showcase, a valuable set of customizable online demos.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2007
Microsoft offers a wealth of resources that its executives really want
you to use.
- By Anne Stuart
- December 01, 2006
Microsoft is a massive, complex organization. Finding your way through it isn't easy, but savvy partners know it's essential to their success.
- By Rich Freeman
- April 01, 2006