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Microsoft Infuses Channel Field Sales with Tools, Resources
When Ross Brown joined Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group as vice president of solution partners and ISVs a year ago, he did what any new executive would do: He started to assess his field channel sales team. And he asked an obvious question: “Who’s our best PAM and how well are they doing?" No one could…
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Apple Quarter Earnings Expected Higher Than Forecasts
Like Intel and IBM last week, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is expected to report better than expected results for its third quarter this week, with one analyst expecting revenues of $8.31 billion. That’s more good news for a technology marketplace that has held off on purchases as it awaits the end of a long and drastic cut…
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Gasp! Microsoft Takes Linux Hyper-V Drivers Open Source
Microsoft temporarily suspended its fear and loathing of all things Linux this week. The Windows juggernaut released Linux Hyper-V drivers under the GPL version 2 and submitted them for inclusion in the main Linux kernel source tree. What next? Sharepoint running natively on Linux? Let’s not go that far. But while submitting device driver code…
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Microsoft Deal Talk, Optimism Overshadow Down Results
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp will likely report the first annual sales dip in its history as a public company, but investors are looking beyond that for upbeat comments on Windows 7, signs of a tech sector recovery, and even a deal with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Google Inc. The question for investors when the world’s…
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Is Microsoft on the Offensive?
Apple’s complaints that Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter TV ads are unfair and inaccurate is a major victory for Microsoft, which previously couldn’t get a marketing hit against the consumer favorite Mac. Although its still a distant third in market share, Bing has captured the attention of the user community and is now the alternative to Google…
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How One VAR Saved the Army $1 Billion a Year
The U.S. Army is a fighting force of more than 1.1 million soldiers and several hundred thousand civilian support personnel and contractors. Each person serving the Army is evaluated annually for fitness and performance, a process that was consuming tens of thousands of work hours and millions of pounds of paper at a cost of…