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Amazon.com founder and The Washington Post owner Jeffrey P. Bezos on Thursday briefly became the richest person in the world, displacing Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

The flexibility offered by Microsoft's Cloud Solution Provider program is a major benefit for customers, Logicalis executive Wendy McQuiston said.

The company said that discovering a vulnerability in Windows 10-related software can net researchers up to $250K.

The roll out of Azure Container Instances is "truly transformative" for cloud-oriented solution providers, partners told CRN.

New Delhi, July 26, 2017: Microsoft India today announced the launch of Microsoft Kaizala, a mobile-only product designed for large group communications and work management. Microsoft Kaizala makes it simple for organizations to seamlessly communicate, collaborate and complete tasks, bringing together desktop users and mobile-only users who may be within or outside their organizations. Microsoft India also announced the launch of its enterprise version, Kaizala Pro that allows organizations to have full administrative control of their groups. Organizations in India are becoming more dispersed, and as a result, connectivity with their extended teams and partners is crucial. This is evident across industries, ranging from construction, manufacturing, insurance and healthcare to retail. Microsoft Kaizala helps organizations connect with large numbers of people inside and outside their organization, easily coordinate tasks across the value chain, and gain actionable insights. Microsoft K

Deep breaths, Internet: Microsoft isn't killing off its iconic Paint feature just yet. On Monday, the Internet went into overdrive after seeing Microsoft Paint in the 'deprecated' column of the...

Microsoft is considering killing off the iconic 32-year-old paint feature. The company has announced the latest update to Windows 10 - the Fall Creators Update - where many features will be removed or...

Growth from Azure, Office 365 and LinkedIn contributed to a hugely profitable quarter for the software giant.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called it 'a tremendous year of customer momentum,' as the company reported 13 percent revenue growth in the fiscal fourth quarter.

The new GLAS thermostat is evidence of where Microsoft sees the future of IoT, partners say, in that instead of building its own product it has created the building blocks for customers and partners to work together.

Vendors pitched scores of products during the Inspire conference, many of them serving to augment Office 365 and other Microsoft offerings.

Microsoft executives shared product news and details of a new sales reorganization, Verizon downplays a security snafu and David Henshall has been made new CEO of Citrix.

Microsoft's sweeping changes unveiled during its 2017 partner conference proved that the company has been listening to the channel, partners say.

The corporate vice president of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner organization speaks about the new sweeping changes in how the company goes to market with partners.

The head of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner organization speaks about the new sweeping changes in how the company goes to market with partners.

Microsoft will now compensate its own salespeople for working more closely with Cloud Solution Provider partners, Gavriella Schuster tells the audience of partners at Inspire 2017.

India is a great place for innovation and there is a lot of opportunity for Indian firms and start-ups to work with Microsoft and develop cloud-based tools and platforms for a global marketplace,...

Judson Althoff And Toni Townes-Whitley outlined how Microsoft is changing its channel programs with an eye on focusing on industries, with new channel personnel and initiatives aimed at helping partners focus on new, fast-changing needs.

Judson Althoff and Toni Townes-Whitley take the stage at Microsoft Inspire to discuss how the company is helping partners develop expertise in financial services, manufacturing, retail, education, health care and government.

Microsoft is not only building IT solutions solely to support conspicuous consumption, it is also working to make a positive impact in the world, Microsoft's Indian American CEO Satya Nadella said.

In his Microsoft Inspire keynote speech, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella focused on channel partner opportunities and debuted Microsoft 365 and Azure Stack.

New integrated sets of products, including Office 365, Dynamics 365, LinkedIn and other offerings were debuted at Microsoft's Inspire partner conference keynote on Monday.

The Third Party Offers software distribution platform, released through a beta program, has the potential to upend how Microsoft solutions are bundled with those from technology partners and delivered to solution providers.

The distributor says the integration of Microsoft's new Office 365, mobility and security suite with Tech Data's pre-configured Azure-based cloud server will mean a "benefit" for VARs.

The company is unveiling details about its new Microsoft 365 offering and Azure Stack during the 2017 partner conference.

With Microsoft announcing job cuts as part of reorganising its global sales staff, the company's Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jim DuBois has decided to move on, reports said.

The threshold for Enterprise Agreement deals will go from 500 to 1,000 seats, pushing more midmarket engagements to CSPs, CRN has learned.

The longtime Microsoft executive will be succeeded by another company veteran, Kurt DelBene.

A Microsoft spokesperson said in an email on Thursday that the company is implementing changes to better serve its customers and partners.

Microsoft has started cutting thousands of positions, mostly in its sales department, days after announcing it would shift its sales strategy to focus more on cloud services than on its traditional...

The software giant appears to be "pushing more [business] to partners or self service," one solution provider told CRN.

About three-quarters of the planned layoffs would be located outside the U.S., according to a report.

Solution providers say the restructuring – which organizes sales teams by industry focus and by product category – will bring more value to lines of business.

In February at Future Decoded India we launched Skype Lite, our fastest and smallest app to date built for the Indian market. We announced the Aadhaar integration within Skype Lite would be coming in the summer of 2017 and we’d like to confirm this is now available to users in India from today. Aadhaar is considered to be the world’s largest national identification number project and allows users in India to communicate with government, business, and others with a higher level of trust and lower potential for fraud. With the latest version of Skype Lite, Aadhaar integration can be used to verify users’ identity online, helping them communicate more securely with others. For example, you may wish to make a Skype Lite call to an important business client or government representative – by using Aadhaar, both parties can verify their identity at the beginning of the call to prevent impersonation fraud. Either party can request Aadhaar verification over a video call using Skype Lite. In o

Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella has sought to reduce the tech giant's focus on software, shifting to cloud computing and business services.

The move dovetails with the company's plans to focus more on marketing and selling its cloud software, Azure, according to Bloomberg.

Microsoft is reportedly readying to lay off thousands of employees, a move that could impact the software giant's enterprise sales teams as it looks to drive focus on the cloud.

New Delhi, June 30, 2017 – Microsoft today unveiled findings of its Asia Workplace 2020 Study*, where it found that a large number of the Gen X and Millennial workforce in India are open to digital workspaces, value work-life integration (rather than work-life separation), and are embracing flexi workstyles that enable them to be mobile professionals with a personalized way of how they work and live. In fact, adoption of practices and advanced technology that enable flexi-work and collaboration have been ranked as the #1 and #2 reasons for joining and staying in an organization. Interestingly, only 6% of the respondents stated that they were individual contributors. 88% worked in cross-department and/or cross-geography teams. 43% stated that using collaborative technology (i.e. messaging apps, virtual meetings, enterprise social networks, etc.) would make a positive difference in working remotely from locations outside the office, and around 30% believed that it would help provide ti