At the Worldwide Partner Conference this month, partners will find out what Microsoft's strategic shift to meet a rapidly changing market will mean for the channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2013
A discussion with Tech Data's Joe Quaglia about the distributor's new BYOD platform and the state of IT's most explosive sector.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2013
Microsoft OEMs from Acer to Vizio are flooding the market with new PC designs to round out the Windows 8 lineup at the six-month anniversary of the OS.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- June 10, 2013
Of the thousands of apps in the online store for Windows 8, here are 40 that can make a difference for a partner's business.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- June 03, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Microsofties' startup called SkyKick automates the process for partners to sell, plan, provision, migrate, manage and set up Office 365.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 25, 2013
The Microsoft National Systems Integrators are a special group of U.S. partners with super-regional scale and special expertise. Here is the full list of the partners who made the category in Microsoft's 2013 fiscal year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- April 22, 2013
With its Open Licensing move, Microsoft finally enlists all partners in the Office 365 effort.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2013
Microsoft is turbo-charging everything about its unified communications platform -- from customer adoption and partner engagement to multiplatform capabilities and release cadence.
- By Kurt Mackie, Scott Bekker
- April 03, 2013
The combination of Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 SP1 and Windows Intune have given Microsoft partners new opportunities to expand their businesses into the cloud. Here are a few examples.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Channel communities are key for partners who want to network, shore up resources and bolster their access to the larger organizations they are partners with. But given their wide variety, it can be a challenge for partners to know which communities suit them best. In this primer, Howard runs down the different types of partner communities to help you find the best fit for your partner company.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 11, 2013
From specialization to audience targeting, content creation, traffic generation and more, marketing consultant Barb Levisay offers proven tips for bolstering your name recognition.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 04, 2013
In a Q&A, D&H Distributing Co-President Michael Schwab says structural factors are giving Windows 8 a slow start, but he predicts some of those same dynamics will make the new OS a huge hit in the near future.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 30, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Windows Division may have been the star of Microsoft's recent Q2 FY'13 earnings report, but what other insights do the numbers reveal? RCP reads between the lines of Microsoft's latest financial earnings.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2013
With Windows 8, Microsoft aims to unify the tablet and PC interfaces in an ambitious experiment. In a month-long review, RCP finds the effort largely succeeds.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 14, 2013
Channel luminaries offer their best advice to help Microsoft partners succeed in the coming year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- January 04, 2013
Not to be outdone by Microsoft's own Surface RT offering, OEMs from Dell to ASUS are rolling out their own Windows RT-based tablets. Here are a few of the standouts.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 18, 2012
Yes, Windows RT is almost entirely consumer-focused. There are cases in which it makes sense for businesses, but partners must make sure their customers fully work through the pros and cons.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2012
Rage was the first reaction to the death of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server brand. Now resellers are making plans for what comes next.
- By Rich Freeman
- December 10, 2012
RCP asks Microsoft's Jon Roskill about the increase in price to gain the gold competency and the overall value of the 2-year-old Microsoft Partner Network.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2012
Hosting services providers have always been important stakeholders in Windows Server development. With the 2012 version and its Cloud OS emphasis, Microsoft hosters' needs come to the fore.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 26, 2012