In Part 2 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Ron Huddleston, head of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner unit, explains how Microsoft is trying to simplify its partner-facing organization to work more effectively with its massive partner network.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 14, 2017
In Part 1 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Huddleston explains his philosophy on partnering and how his background at Salesforce.com and Oracle is informing his approach to the channel at Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2017
Starting this month, subscribers of Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service will be able to access an intelligent search capability that will make it easier to find photos of receipts, whiteboards, drawings and signs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2017
With the European Union preparing to overhaul its data privacy laws next year, Microsoft is urging its partners to take advantage of the opportunity as customers grapple with the changes.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2017
As cloud pushes the channel to evolve, Microsoft solution providers must proactively seek to partner with other ISVs to target that DevOps sweet spot.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 12, 2017
Microsoft this week said it plans to make Intel's newly released Xeon Scalable processors "a cornerstone" of Project Olympus, its open source datacenter hardware effort.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2017
Microsoft is readying preview releases of three new applications for Office 365 Business Premium, the company announced at its Inspire partner conference this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2017
Kirill Tatarinov is stepping down from his position as CEO of Citrix, 18 months after taking the reins at the virtualization and networking giant.
- By Keith Ward
- July 11, 2017
Microsoft is making it possible for more partners to build solutions around its HoloLens mixed reality technology.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 11, 2017
After a four-month preview, Quest on Tuesday released its new cloud-based platform for managing Office 365 applications and Azure Active Directory implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2017
Expect a year of continued focus on Azure, Office 365, Windows 10, LinkedIn/Dynamics and the attempt to find a new niche in the mobile space.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- July 10, 2017
A new Microsoft solution that integrates the Dynamics 365 Sales app, Office 365 and Azure with LinkedIn's Sales Navigator tool is now generally available.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft's launch hardware partners will begin taking orders Monday for Azure Stack, a parallel version of the software that powers the Microsoft Azure public cloud and that customers will run in their own datacenters for hybrid cloud scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a marketing and substance overhaul to its Secure Productive Enterprise package that will be called Microsoft 365.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft has unveiled a new program that would let ISVs developing on Azure to bolt other Microsoft solutions onto their applications.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 10, 2017