A lot of factors drove the merger of three Midwest solution providers into Avtex Solutions -- but some of the reasons relate to Microsoft technology issues and the new demands of the Microsoft Partner Network.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2011
This time, Rizzo pulls no punches when it comes to talking down Google's effort to compete against Microsoft, and also discusses future integration opportunities with Windows Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 28, 2010
Microsoft's Online Services Director explains how Office 365 fits into the partner ecosystem, and how the transition from BPOS to Office 365 will work.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 22, 2010
A look back at 10 of the more interesting mergers and acquisitions to hit the Microsoft channel this year
- By Scott Bekker
- December 22, 2010
Microsoft has a tradition of making a market breakthrough with the third release of a product. For that pattern to hold true in unified communications and collaboration, the channel will have to play a critical role.
- By Alison Diana
- December 01, 2010
It's been a year of change and turnover among partner-facing Microsoft executives. Here's an org chart for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2010
When Microsoft overhauls the Online Suite as Office 365 next year, it will include Office desktop products in the subscription. An analyst calls the change a "mixed bag" for the channel.
- By John K. Waters
- December 01, 2010
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 18, 2010
Today's distributors do much more than ship products and track orders -- it's too bad some channel partners don't know it.
- By Rich Freeman
- November 01, 2010
Redmond's massive investment in forward-thinking cloud infrastructure is spreading across the globe, indicating that Microsoft will be worth partnering with for years to come.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
Will the cloud replace tape and local disk as the preferred means of protecting enterprise data? Though this was once unthinkable, cloud storage is starting to gain momentum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010
For Microsoft's roughly 400,000 formal partners, the changeover this month to a new partner program means that everything from business cards to business practices will change.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 02, 2010
Dynamics partners have always had different needs than other Microsoft partners, and the MPN has very different requirements of its business applications partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010
Microsoft checklists outline process, collect tools for partners to switch over to the MPN.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010
With a focus on the super-small business market, Aurora offers a cross-premises Active Directory solution that's easy to manage.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- October 01, 2010
For the 25th anniversary of Windows 1.0 -- the Microsoft product at the root of the modern Microsoft channel -- take our quiz about the market forces, Microsoft personalities and technical specs of the earliest version of the OS. How much do you remember about the debut of Windows? Take our quiz!
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010
Stephen Elop blasted a hole in the Microsoft org chart last month by stepping into the CEO job at Nokia.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010
Three-tier model brings field resources, MDF, per-deal subsidies to U.S. partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2010
Technical Computing GM discusses new Windows HPC Server release.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2010
Partners like Jeffrey Goldstein are eager for features in Microsoft's forthcoming release that will give them better traction against Salesforce.com.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2010