A regularly updated guide to what's hot, what's not, what's trending and what's flailing for the Microsoft channel.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 12, 2015
It's not enough for partners to drive sales of Microsoft's cloud; now, they're being asked to drive cloud workloads.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 30, 2015
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Former longtime IBM executive Victor Morales made his public debut at Microsoft Convergence after three months on the job.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 26, 2015
A brief glossary of the two-, three- and four-letter terms that Microsoft loves and partners should know.
- By M.S. Partner
- March 23, 2015
From security to storage to identity management, the recent raft of new Azure services gives Microsoft partners multiple ways to meet today's business requirements.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 12, 2015
Everything will change for the Microsoft ecosystem when the next client OS ships. Here's a feature-by-feature guide to what specific partner types should expect from Windows 10.
- By Scott Bekker, Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2015
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Have faith in Microsoft on CRM, give Pinpoint another chance, check out DigitalStride, stay tuned on Surface in the channel and keep an eye on opportunities in Azure, hybrid cloud and EMS, Sorgen advises.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2014
Between the end of stack ranking and the emergence of faster release cycles, partners are contending with a much different Microsoft than the one under Ballmer.
- By M.S. Partner
- November 03, 2014
Impersonal vendor channels are drowning out partners who voice their concerns. Is the only solution to speak louder?
- By Howard M. Cohen
- October 29, 2014
A few of Microsoft's recent moves have the company lumbering right onto partners' territory.
- By M.S. Partner
- September 25, 2014
WEB EXCLUSIVE: A recap of some of the important themes Microsoft executives spotlighted at the 2014 Worldwide Partner Conference keynotes.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 21, 2014
For the Microsoft channel, it's July -- not the start of the calendar year -- that provides the best point for looking back on what's changed over the last 12 months.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 11, 2014
Phil Sorgen talks to RCP about his first Worldwide Partner Conference as head of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, the evolving direction of the partner channel and Microsoft's role in it.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 11, 2014
Microsoft partners looking to diversify their practices might have a hard time finding viable alternatives. And no, Google isn't one.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- June 11, 2014
Nearly a year after Microsoft launched a program to bring its Surface tablet PCs to market through the channel, Tuesday's debut of the Surface Pro 3 is the first device launched with the backing of a new marketing team.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 21, 2014