by Erik Moe, Partner Relationship Marketing, Microsoft U.S. Marketing & Operations The Microsoft U.S. team is in the early stages of designing a partner appreciation program, and your input and feedback will help us determine what benefits you would value most. Our short, 14-question survey will...

by Julie Golding, U.S. MPN Lead The competency roadmap provides you with a comprehensive look at both recently implemented changes and planned changes coming to the Microsoft Partner Network, to competency requirements and benefits, and to our cloud partner programs. It’s a document I frequently use...

One year from today, Windows XP and Office 2003 will reach end of support—the countdown is on, and there are fewer than 300 workdays until April 8, 2014. If you have enterprise customers with computing environments still running Windows XP and Office 2003, we have put together some essential information...

The Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Team is working on new resources to help you reach prospects and expand your business in education. To better serve you, we’d like to understand how your customer lead processes work and how you use Microsoft sales and marketing tools. Take our short survey to tell us...

On the first and third Friday of each month, the U.S. Partner Team delivers a newsletter for U.S.-based members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The content you receive in your email inbox as a benefit of your membership is specific to your company’s business and your role. This blog post contains all...

by Julie Golding, U.S. MPN Lead Your company’s Microsoft competency in the Microsoft Partner Network offers valuable benefits that can help you succeed in your role, and help your company capitalize on new opportunities in the market with the latest Microsoft product releases . Product knowledge. In...

A blog series for U.S. partners by Jenni Flinders, Microsoft U.S. Vice President, Partner Strategy and Programs. Over the years, one of the hot business topics we’ve encountered has been managing work/life balance. Before I address this topic, I need to state first and foremost, I am a mom who is successfully...

In your newsletter this week, customized according to your company’s business model, Microsoft Partner Network membership, and your role, you’ll find the latest partner-related information and news about preparing for Windows 8 ( just a few days away !), understanding changes to competencies that take...

Below is a directory of the communications and resources the Microsoft U.S. Partner Team offers to help you connect to the information you need to manage your relationship with Microsoft and meet your business goals. Choose your favorite way (or ways) to get information and take advantage of US-specific...

Once again, we have begun inviting partners and customers to participate in our Microsoft Global Relationship Study (GRS). Periodically, we engage an independent research company to conduct this study in more than 100 countries, giving both customers and partners an opportunity to evaluate Microsoft...

This time last year, I used this blog to address a question I received from a new Microsoft partner who wanted guidance about how to get started. I have pointed a lot of folks to it over the past several months, but it’s a bit ragged around the edges—a lot has happened in technology over the past year...

I recently had the opportunity to chat with my teammate Sharon Collins, the U.S. Partner Team lead for the Microsoft Partner Network , about the new membership options and competencies that we launched on November 1. Over the past couple of years, leading up to the launch of the new Microsoft Partner...

Thank you for such a great response to my post last month about the proposed update to the partner portal home page . Through the online poll, comments on the blog, and e-mails to me, we learned a lot about how you use the home page today and how you would like to use it in the future, and earlier this...

As the managing editor of the Microsoft U.S. partner portal, one of my responsibilities is understanding how partners use the site and how we can improve the experience with it. Each month, I look at several data points and read between 200-300 comments from partners who agree to take our Foresee pop...

Eric Ligman, the Global Partner Experience Lead in the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, wrote a great article on his blog earlier this week about using search on the Microsoft Partner Network portal . I was delighted to see his post, as I have long thought that the portal search capability is often...