Microsoft Partnering 101


Standing on the Platform of a Giant

What company has technology that may not be leading edge, but is often easier to deploy and has the support of thousands who use it and have created a myriad number of solutions that might fit you and your partner's needs?

Best Practices: The Narrative of Numbers

Opening the books can help your employees better understand your company's story-and empower them to help write its future.

Head Start on Search

QuickStart for Search gave partners a way to market search skills ahead of a full-blown competency specialization. Here's how it's working nearly one year later.

Symantec Seeks Partner Feedback

Partners of security giant Symantec Corp. will soon be able to give the company more feedback on its partner program.

Has Microsoft Booked a Trip to Vienna?

Vista's release means the work begins on the next Windows. What's next might be an OS you've never seen before.

Power to the Partners

Microsoft's Partner Advisory Councils (PACs) provide a chance for partners to be seen and heard-and even to change Microsoft.

Channeling Disruption

IDC predicts new developments in the channel that will have you rethinking your approach to partnering in the months and years to come.

Channel News: GFI Software Updates Channel Training

Messaging provider partners with trainer to get partners up to speed on new messaging solutions.

The Gold Club

Who made the grade this month...

Channel News: Synnex Buys PC Wholesale

IT supply chain services extends its offerings by snapping up hardware refurbisher.

Homeward Bound

Windows Home Server can help organize a family's digital content, but for partners, it isn't yet a household name.

Anatomy of the Deal: Symantec Corp. to Acquire Altiris Inc. Jan. 29, 2007

An inside look at prominent deals within the Microsoft partner community. Part of an occasional series.

Roadmap Q&A: Microsoft's Eric Berg on the Future of Systems Center and DSI

Eric Berg, Microsoft's director of product management for Systems Center, took some time at the Microsoft Management Summit in San Diego to give ENTmag a DSI progress report.

Dell: Audit Found Evidence of Misconduct

In the most serious admission yet of the extent of Dell Inc.'s financial woes, the company's internal audit committee said it has found a number of accounting errors and evidence of misconduct in its months-long review of previous earnings statements.