Microsoft's top channel executive outlined some of the company's plans to ramp up support for partners during Wednesday's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) keynote.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 16, 2014
Microsoft unveiled an opportunity for its partners to leverage the Azure cloud platform to sell their services at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 14, 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
Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. Don't make that mistake.
- By Ken Thoreson
- July 09, 2014
The next stage of growth in the partner ecosystem is IP development, but firms should be mindful of its hurdles before making the transition.
- By Mike Harvath
- June 13, 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
From Azure RemoteApp to ExpressRoute, the new features Microsoft introduced at TechEd give partners new ways to leverage Azure to develop and sell new services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 14, 2014
If your company has a great growth story that covers the past three years, we want to hear about it.
- By Mike Harvath
- May 12, 2014
Our former Microsoft field rep shares some insights about how Microsoft operates and what's behind the company's attitudes toward its partners and employees.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 23, 2014
The new CEO's mantra of "mobile- and cloud-first" has some uncomfortable implications for partners -- one of them being the possibility of competition from Microsoft itself.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- April 21, 2014
Microsoft solution providers will now be able to bill their customers directly for using Windows Intune.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 15, 2014
Bob Marsh, an original architect of the Microsoft Action Pack, talks about the origins of the channel's most popular subscription program and the best and worst parts of the controversial recent revamp.
The next few months could prove to be the most trying for all but the largest of Microsoft's partners.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 26, 2014