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By Mark Rice
As customers digitally transform themselves, all partners are also going through some level of transformation necessary to take advantage of the growing customer demand and opportunity in the cloud. The promise of the recurring revenue of long-term cloud managed services is a clear end game to their customer engagement. This is a journey, and can be looked at in three pillars: business transformation, capability transformation and sales and marketing transformation.
01/29/2019
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Support for Internet Explorer 10 will expire in 2020 for users of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft warned this week.
01/29/2019
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A new feature in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service enables organizations to grant outside partners access to their internal network resources.
01/29/2019
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Microsoft's Office 365 for Mac productivity suite is now available from Apple's Mac App Store.
01/28/2019
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Microsoft this week acquired Citus Data, whose flagship offering is an extension that scales out the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system in datacenters.
01/24/2019
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Your success will be predicated upon how well you can manage your time in 2019.
01/24/2019
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By Toby Richards
Going into 2019, we're hoping more and more commercial partners, including services partners and independent software vendors, take advantage of the Microsoft portfolio of go-to-market services. Partners should focus on attaining technical competencies and delivering validated solutions in order to remain competitive.
01/24/2019
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Skype Room Systems, Microsoft's line of partner-built videoconferencing and meeting room devices, has been renamed "Microsoft Teams Rooms," the company announced Wednesday.
01/23/2019
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Microsoft's Azure DevOps Server 2019 product, which succeeds Team Foundation Server 2018, is now available as Release Candidate 2 (RC2).
01/23/2019
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The cloud is a means, not an end. Success in modernizing IT in 2019 and beyond, through the cloud, will be driven by a complete standardization and through intentional growth strategies.
01/22/2019
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Microsoft's beleaguered Windows 10 Mobile operating system will lose support on Dec. 10, 2019, the company has announced.
01/22/2019
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Revenues from IT infrastructure products sold to cloud service providers have surpassed revenues from traditional IT infrastructure sales "for the first time," according to a recently published report by IDC.
01/22/2019
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By Gavriella Schuster
It’s 2019, are you ready to give customers what they’re craving? Customers have sky-high expectations of both Microsoft and our partners. We all need to rise to the challenge to meet customers’ needs. The good news is, with our technology and your expertise, IP and services capabilities, we have the perfect ingredients for success.
01/17/2019
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Microsoft this week assured organizations that they're not likely to face application compatibility issues if they move to Windows 10.
01/17/2019
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The International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) on Wednesday identified its worldwide leadership team for 2019.
01/17/2019
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An upcoming change to SharePoint Online will effectively push some organizations away from the earlier "classic" user interface (UI) and toward Microsoft's so-called "modern" UI for Lists and Libraries.
01/16/2019
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Microsoft's new approach for getting organizations to purchase Azure services appears to put its partners at a disadvantage.
01/15/2019
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Windows 7 entered its final year of support on Jan. 14, as did Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The two products are due to fall out of "extended support" on Jan. 14, 2020.
01/15/2019