Microsoft Partnering 101


Industry Builder Tells You a Lot About Microsoft

While the program isn't scalable, its structure exemplifies Microsoft's preferred partner role.

Vendor Consolidation

With a few key strategies, partners can maximize profitability by leveraging the constant and sometimes disruptive force of vendor consolidation.

Vista -- Here at Last

You've read about it, seen it and tested it -- now it's time to sell it.

Playing to Win: Using Sales Contests to Hit Your Goals

Goals and ideas for growing sales organically -- and adding some fun to the process.

Caught in the Crossfire of Internal Politics

Fed up with your client's in-house turf wars? This advice from the trenches will help you survive even the toughest of battles.

Making the Partner-Vendor Marriage Last

Guidelines for a prosperous partnership that can last, well, 'til death do you part.

Steering SMBs Toward Managed Services

SMBs can't afford to hire a qualified IT staff to administer their networks. Partners who provide managed services can step in.

Partnering for Profitability

What Microsoft's Partner Team is doing to boost your bottom line.

New Campaigns Signal a Shift in Gears

Microsoft offers creative ways to get more business out of Vista, and partners are the primary beneficiaries of those moves.

Go Pro!

Technology spending in the professional services industry is on the rise. Here's how Microsoft partners can get in on the action.

SOA Explained

Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi and Marcia Kaufman explain Service Oriented Architecture in this book for "Dummies."

Apple Shares Turbulent After Reports of Forged Documents Probe

Apple Computer Inc.'s stock option troubles underwent extreme twists following reports of a federal probe into the possible forgery of documents to bolster executives' profits and that CEO Steve Jobs received 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without proper board approval.

Internet Explorer To Flag Verified 'Safe' Sites

Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe."

Open Relay Database Ceases As Spammers Evolve

The Open Relay Database, a tool e-mail service providers used for years to help curb the spread of spam, is ceasing operations, a death partly attributable to its own success.

Microsoft Adds Behavioral Targeting

Microsoft Corp. has started linking users' search habits with other personal information as it prepares to show more personalized advertisements.