With the global financial crisis exploding around them, experts try to gauge its likely impact on channel partners and their customers.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- November 01, 2008
You may have a sense of urgency driven by end-of-year deadlines for quotas or bonuses, but you need to show prospects how moving forward at this point will benefit <i>them</i>.
- By Ken Thoreson
- November 01, 2008
A new version of the Microsoft SOA solution is scheduled for a worldwide debut sometime next year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2008
The direct-market reseller looks to build its business by adding virtualization to its hosted and managed services.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft and its partners discover that virtualization offers real opportunity-especially to those arriving early to the party.
- By Keith Ward
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft is cleverly undermining Apple's "I'm a PC" tagline -- a harbinger of humiliation -- by turning it into a positive affirmation.
- By Paul DeGroot
- November 01, 2008
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can help bridge the traditional gap between IT and telephony while offering rich new opportunities for partners from both camps.
- By Fred Bayles
- November 01, 2008
IT seemed immune to the financial crisis, but companies are now reacting as news becomes more ominous by the day.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
Product designed to make enterprise data accessible through simple searches.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft is testing a new online partner directory called Pinpoint. Partners like its looks so far, but are waiting to see how it performs in the one area that counts: generating leads.
- By Rich Freeman
- November 01, 2008
While the name is all Microsoft is revealing about the main VS suite, it's getting fairly detailed about Team System.
- By Kathleen Richards
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft has come up with a toolkit consisting of Windows Gurus and Windows store-within-a-store kiosks at major retail stores to boost the image of Windows Vista. Will the effort be enough?
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 31, 2008
Microsoft will join a working group to support an open standard for multiplatform messaging in the enterprise, according to a company statement issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 30, 2008