Nearly a year after Microsoft launched a program to bring its Surface tablet PCs to market through the channel, Tuesday's debut of the Surface Pro 3 is the first device launched with the backing of a new marketing team.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 21, 2014
Future versions of Dynamics CRM will drop support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 15, 2014
From Azure RemoteApp to ExpressRoute, the new features Microsoft introduced at TechEd give partners new ways to leverage Azure to develop and sell new services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 14, 2014
If your company has a great growth story that covers the past three years, we want to hear about it.
- By Mike Harvath
- May 12, 2014
The R3 version of Microsoft's Dynamics AX 2012 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution was released on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 02, 2014
As megavendors build datacenters to support their cloud visions, they're wooing solution providers that can connect customers' on-premises systems to the new cloud platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2014
Our former Microsoft field rep shares some insights about how Microsoft operates and what's behind the company's attitudes toward its partners and employees.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 23, 2014
The new CEO's mantra of "mobile- and cloud-first" has some uncomfortable implications for partners -- one of them being the possibility of competition from Microsoft itself.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- April 21, 2014
Microsoft solution providers will now be able to bill their customers directly for using Windows Intune.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 15, 2014
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The short answer? It depends. For most U.S. solution providers, the MPN costs between $0 and $5,260. We break down the perks of six cost levels so you can determine where your firm will get the most bang for its buck.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2014
Bob Marsh, an original architect of the Microsoft Action Pack, talks about the origins of the channel's most popular subscription program and the best and worst parts of the controversial recent revamp.
The next few months could prove to be the most trying for all but the largest of Microsoft's partners.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 26, 2014
Understanding Microsoft's scorecard system is one way to figure out what partner deals Microsoft's sales reps currently value the most.
- By M.S. Partner
- March 24, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its Convergence 2014 event in Atlanta, Ga. by spotlighting several key Dynamics releases expected this year.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 04, 2014
Public statements so far from Satya Nadella provide a strong hint of what the new Microsoft CEO will give partners, what he won't and what's negotiable.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2014