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  • The 2017 Microsoft Product Roadmap

    Standouts of this year's release calendar include Windows 10's next update milestone and Azure Stack's long-awaited launch.

  • What Will Microsoft's FY18 Restructuring Mean for Partners?

    The landscape inside Microsoft is in flux as the company reorganizes its sales structure. For partners, the chaos presents both threat and opportunity.

  • Q&A with Ron Huddleston: Know Your Solution Maps and Channel Managers

    In Part 3 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Microsoft One Commercial Partner CVP Ron Huddleston talks about two of the most important new concepts for partners to understand to succeed in Microsoft's revised channel model.

  • Partner-Facing Roles Shuffled in Microsoft Reorg

    The leadership of the six-month-old One Commercial Partner (OCP) organization at Microsoft got a minor shuffle when the company's entire sales and marketing organization underwent major upheavals at the beginning of July.

  • Q&A with Ron Huddleston: Microsoft's New Partner Engagement Model

    In Part 2 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Ron Huddleston, head of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner unit, explains how Microsoft is trying to simplify its partner-facing organization to work more effectively with its massive partner network.

  • Microsoft Inspire 2017: The Twitter Recap

    RCP Editor in Chief Scott Bekker upheld his yearly tradition this week of live-Tweeting his way through Microsoft's annual partner conference. Here are the highlights from this year's keynotes.

  • Q&A with Ron Huddleston: Meet Microsoft's One Commercial Partner Leader

    In Part 1 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Huddleston explains his philosophy on partnering and how his background at Salesforce.com and Oracle is informing his approach to the channel at Microsoft.

  • Tech Data Makes Play for Old Small Business Server Niche

    There are few products remembered as fondly by as many Microsoft partners as Windows Small Business Server (SBS).

  • For I Have Seen the Future, and Its Name Is DevOps

    As cloud pushes the channel to evolve, Microsoft solution providers must proactively seek to partner with other ISVs to target that DevOps sweet spot.

  • What's in Microsoft's Tea Leaves for Fiscal 2018?

    Expect a year of continued focus on Azure, Office 365, Windows 10, LinkedIn/Dynamics and the attempt to find a new niche in the mobile space.

  • 2017 Microsoft Conference Calendar: For Partners, IT Pros and Developers

    WEB EXCLUSIVE: From Microsoft mega-events like Build and Ignite to smaller one- and two-day training sessions, we've got your 2017 conference schedule covered.

  • Layoffs Under Way at Microsoft

    The other shoe is dropping in the major sales and marketing reorganization that Microsoft began implementing earlier this week: The company started notifying employees of massive layoffs on Thursday.

  • What To Expect from Microsoft's WPC, Ahem, Inspire 2017

    Controversy swirls around the new name Microsoft slapped on the event formerly known as the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). The structure, focus and audience, however, should feel familiar to any attendee of previous WPCs.

  • DXC Technology Buys Tribridge

    DXC Technology, the IT services giant formed by the April merger of CSC with HPE's services arm, bought one of Microsoft's biggest Dynamics partners, Tribridge, on Wednesday in a move to strengthen the DXC Dynamics 365 business.

  • Microsoft's Pre-Inspire Reorg Raises 7 Big Questions for Partners

    Many of Microsoft's most committed partners will be mostly stumbling in the dark on the basic facts of the company's massive sales and marketing reorganization as they arrive next week at Inspire, where they're supposed to get their marching orders and work out concrete business plans.

  • How To Network the Right Way at Microsoft Inspire

    For starters, don't book meetings with strangers through the booking tool unless you absolutely have to.

  • Next for Nutanix: Applications, Public Cloud Support, Google Partnership

    Nutanix plans to pull applications into its hyperconverged infrastructure platform and make it possible to extend that platform to all three major public clouds, the company revealed this week at its .NEXT conference in Washington, D.C.

  • 6 Tips for Compelling Proposals that Prospects Want To Sign

    When it comes to marketing content, the early stages of the customer journey seem to get all the attention, whereas proposals -- one of the most important documents in the buying process -- are left to the sales and technical teams to piece together at the last minute.

  • Box-Microsoft: A Partnership for a Complicated World

    Later this year, Microsoft and Box will begin co-selling the Box cloud content management platform with Azure on the back end.

  • Independent SonicWall Boasts of Booming Channel Momentum

    SonicWall is coming out of Dell's shadow at a flat-out sprint.

  • The Top 200 Microsoft Solution Providers of 2017

    It takes a special set of skills and attitudes to be a great Microsoft solution provider. In this second-annual listing, Redmond Channel Partner magazine presents 200 of the best in the United States.