July 13, 2011 5:33 PM
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Steven SinofskyLOS ANGELES--Here are some threads floating around Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference that you won't see hear in any keynote.
1: If Steve Ballmer's out, who's in?
Don't get me wrong. This partner crowd is not Wall Street -- there are no torches and pitchforks. But they...
July 12, 2011 1:35 PM
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Steve BallmerBy Pat Ouellette, Associate Editor
LOS ANGELES -- It’s been an eventful 24 hours since I hit the tarmac at LAX Sunday to attend my first Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). From Dodger Stadium and its army of police officers to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explaining why his “all...
July 11, 2011 8:37 PM
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Microsoft Worldwide Partner ConferenceBy Colin Steele
LOS ANGELES -- Here's a numerical look at some of the factoids tossed around at today's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference keynote:
12,000: Partners in attendance
640,000: Microsoft partner organizations around the world
15 million: Employees working for those...
July 4, 2011 9:34 PM
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Microsoft Worldwide Partner ConferenceBy Pat Ouellette and Barbara Darrow, ITChannel Staff
VARs heading into the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference next week have a lot of questions for the software giant. They want clarification of its cloud message and they need...
July 15, 2010 8:27 PM
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SilverStill have questions about the Microsoft Gold, Advanced, no Gold competencies? Here's an explanation of the...
July 12, 2010 2:39 PM
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Steve BallmerA couple of positioning statements from Monday's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference keynotes.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was careful to claim that virtualization does NOT equal cloud computing. That's what I would say too if I were trying to displace the VMware juggernaut.
