Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Distributors will have a valuable function to play if they can prove value, according to Azlan cloud boss Joel Chimoindes.

Microsoft is stepping up efforts to get more partners and customers adopting its cloud-based Office 365 productivity suite by expanding commissions on referred accounts. The goal: Stop Google Apps in its tracks and recapture lost customers.

The South Korean vendor sees a 51 percent increase in brand value, while its fruity rival’s brand grew one percent.

Avnet is hoping to capture the imagination of its channel partners with its VSPEX-based offering, which promises a converged architecture to work in harsh environments.

The software giant claims some reports did not ‘accurately represent’ content of its conversation with certain national media journalists.

Despite rampant software piracy abroad and withering competition and market churn at home, Bill Gates remains bullish on the technology industry in general and, in particular, Microsoft’s tablet and operating system efforts.

Breathless reports in the media notwithstanding, the changes due for Redmond’s struggling flagship OS amount to more of a veer to the right than a U-turn, and are nowhere near a concession of “New Coke” proportions.

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins believes the age of tablets will be short lived. He has a point, but it’s based on faulty reasoning. Here’s why.

The market share gap between Apple and Samsung in the tablet space has narrowed by 25 points in the last year. But whatever the name on the label, the tactile devices continue to fly off the shelves at an incredible rate, IDC data reveals.

Microsoft claims ts competitors are “dwarfed” by the progress it’s making in the cloud space as it announces it has signed its 125,000th Cloud Essentials (CE) reseller.