July, 2009

Top Five WPC Lessons

1: Sales of Business Productivity Online Suite are sad.  First clue? The 250 free seats offered to WPC 2009 attendees. People applauded that news but some of the more um--realistic--VARs in the crowd said it's may be the only way to get some actual users online. VARs hate BPOS because Microsoft...

Microsoft VARs: Do you know where your TPAM is?

Microsoft is moving its Telephone Partner Account Managers (TPAMs) into distribution. The company told several of its VARs at the Worldwide Partner Conference this week that the TPAMs will soon be working out of distributors' support organizations but performing most of their same tasks. One...

Office apps glut coming

So, Microsoft's go-to-market plan for Office Web Applications is to give them away to consumers. Check. Got it. And, it will give volume licensees of on-premises Office 2010 rights to use Office Web Apps on premises.  No check. Don't get it.

What they’re tweeting at the Microsoft WPC

By Colin Steele

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 kicked off today in New Orleans, and partners have been busy discussing this morning’s news on Twitter (using the hash tag...

Win 7 RTM and other hits from WPC

Bill Veghte may be moving on from his Windows leadership role, but he was in New Orleans with a vengeance Monday morning, promising

Report: Microsoft tries to sell Razorfish

  Microsoft is reportedly trying to sell off Razorfish, the digital ad service to a large consortium of advertising agencies. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is trying to offload Razorfish--but with...

SAP cuts LinkedIn recruiting deal for its partners

SAP partners can now use LinkedIn's recruiting service for a deep discount to find and hire talent.

You too can ‘friend’ Azure

For those who can't get enough of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft (or someone) has thoughtfully set up a Facebook page for the future set of hosted services. It hasn't been updated since April, but what the heck?

Sinofsky on the rise at Microsoft

  Steven Sinofsky, a Microsoft long timer known for driving efficient--and secretive--Office 2007 and now Windows 7 development efforts, got promoted. Yesterday, he was named

Where’d Azure workflow go?

A week before the expected roll out of the Microsoft Azure cloud services price and sales model, Microsoft has pulled back a key component service. A developer who had been working with Azure...