25 Facts Partners Should Know About Microsoft

In the channel community, it pays to know your vendors inside and out. A vendor's economic health, its business decisions and its attitudes toward the channel can all make a huge impact on the loyal distributors, VARs, SIs, consultants and MSPs that live and die by the brands they rep. In this vendor profile, Channel Insider takes a look at Microsoft. A veritable giant within the channel community, Microsoft to one degree or another controls the fate of hundreds of thousands of partners within its ecosystem.