Get Up To Speed With Microsoft VelocityMicrosoft's Partner Conference is wrapping up in Boston today, and our editors have been all over it. Find all the news in our Microsoft Velocity News Center, including these top stories: Microsoft Financing: When Customers Pay Later, They Buy More Microsoft Mobilizes Go-To-Market Plan, Channel Promotions For Microsoft's Deshaies, Field Engagement Equals Better Sales Microsoft Unveils Vista Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Licensing Plan Ballmer Issues Marching Orders For Microsoft Partners Microsoft Creates Partner Program To Challenge Google On Search Heather Clancy congratulated the CRN Best in Show partner award winners and wrote about Steve Ballmer's Office Live strategy "Ballmer believes solution providers will find opportunities in five different areas related to software as a service: by creating advertising revenue streams, by generating referral fees, by hosting applications themselves, by reselling access to other partners' application services and by engineering custom integrations that build on top of the core applications in Office Live." Lawrence Walsh discusses the Microsoft Tsunami of new products in 2006 and it's effect on partners. "It's more obvious than ever that the software giant is on collision course with its peers and, eventually, Microsoft will force its 600,000-plus partners to make a choice of allegiance." And Barbara Darrow writes about IBM's not-so-subtle presence in Boston outside the show, and describes Microsoft Business Solutions senior VP Doug Burgum's session as the Best Keynote Evah: "At an MBS session Tuesday at Microsoft's worldwide partner conference... Burgum saluted the few hundred partners who actually found the room—no small feat—with a round of applause for their hard work. And, yes, a beer." Posted by Joe Caponi at 12:59 PM, July 13, 2006 This is a public forum. United Business Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. United Business Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of United Business Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in United Business Media's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business. |
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