Are we continuing in a recession or coming out of one? No one can be sure. In our fourth annual Marching Orders feature, RCP's experts offer advice to put your company in good stead either way.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2010
For LARs, recent changes to the way Microsoft treats its reseller channel have really hurt.
- By Paul DeGroot
- January 01, 2010
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