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Our list of the most innovative executives of the year spotlights the people that are pushing the envelope with new products and channel programs to bring solution providers to new heights.

Find out which executives made the grade and held their own, despite the great IT downturn of 2009.

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Microsoft has re-evaluated its approach to notebooks and says Windows 7 will be a reflection of these lessons. Partners who've tested the Windows 7 beta like what they've seen thus far.

[07:43 PM, January 20, 2009]

Microsoft is giving distributors a way to stock up on Windows XP OEM licenses prior to the Jan. 31 deadline, thus ensuring that XP will be available in the channel for at least a few months afterward.

[01:50 PM, December 19, 2008]

Despite Microsoft's insistences that Windows Vista adoption is growing, Microsoft channel partners say their customers' first question is about whether they can buy new PCs with Windows XP.

[01:48 PM, December 17, 2008]

In a reflection of the growing reach of SaaS, Microsoft is teaming with HP to teach VARs how to sell their own private-label SaaS offerings to SMB customers.

[09:00 AM, December 10, 2008]

Microsoft channel partners are impressed with what they've seen thus far from Microsoft when it comes to Windows 7, the next version of Windows.

[07:28 PM, December 08, 2008]

Microsoft has pried another high-ranking executive away from Yahoo as it continues to fill out the management ranks of its new Online Services Group.

[01:03 PM, December 05, 2008]

Microsoft has releaseed Vista Service Pack 2 to testers and says it's on track to deliver a final version of Vista SP2 sometime in the first half of 2009.

[07:03 PM, December 02, 2008]

Blog post says Microsoft will offer another public beta of the browser software before shipping the final release.

[04:20 PM, November 20, 2008]

Microsoft recently started selling its products online to U.S. consumers for the first time, and while VARs don't see it as a threat, distributors might have a different view.

[02:07 PM, November 20, 2008]

Solution providers cite new 'role-tailored' capabilities as a key selling point for the new ERP software.

[03:30 AM, November 19, 2008]