That alone is interesting, considering my company is a Microsoft partner and we sell competing products.
Training through the Afrika Academy will be available starting in March at no cost to recent higher education graduates, government leaders and the Microsoft partner community.
For partners interested in trying and using the product internally, for free, you can sign up for the Cloud Essentials program Internal Usage Rights (IUR) software and visit Windows Intune on the Microsoft Partner Network.
In conjunction with the beta release, Windows opened the Office 365 Marketplace, an online store where customers can add apps and services from Microsoft and partner companies to their accounts.
"We've recognized that our work with Media Center going only through our large, predominantly multinational OEMs is something that we could actually take further if we were to directly engage the system-builders channel, " Microsoft senior vice president Will Poole said Monday during his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
Microsoft is a partner that allows Nokia to avoid acknowledging its own hubris.
He also sees choosing Microsoft as a partner could help Nokia build an effective combined strategy for smart phones and tablets.
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As a Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner since 2003 we leapt onto their new cloud based service when it was released this past January too.
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Whether or not webOS may rise from the ashes as a largely community-powered platform remains to be seen, but we wouldn't be shocked to see HP pivot towards its longtime partner Microsoft, and release a Windows Phone 8 device.
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If Microsoft became a minority partner in Alibaba Group as well as the new Yahoo!
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Nokia has said the Google - Motorola deal would be good for its partner, Microsoft , and Windows Phone.
He also noted that Microsoft may continue to partner with Yandex in other markets where Bing does not have a leading position.
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This will become a sensitive issue since HP will immediately become a competitor to its OEM partner in Microsoft - but so what.
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CloudOn is a partner of Microsoft and Adobe, and has legitimately licensed the technology used to deliver the Microsoft Office and Adobe components of its service.
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The deal with a strong partner like Microsoft will be welcome news for Lastminute.com shareholders, who have seen the value of their investment plummet by 75% from its peak.
Finally, the move hastens the step of industry lockups, while cash-rich powerhouses like Apple, Google and Microsoft consider finding a partner for a wireless entrance before the realignment dance stops.
Nokia is refusing to comment on rumors that the mobile phone giant is looking to partner with Microsoft on a new line of handsets that would run on Windows Phone 7.
Those companies were able to clone the IBM PC because IBM made the mistake of allowing its partner, Microsoft, to license a virtually identical version of its PC-DOS operating system to any takers.
In addition to Xbox Entertainment Studios creating content that will highlight what's possible and demonstrate the capability of the Xbox platform, Microsoft will continue to partner with content creators, networks, aggregators and advertisers to "pioneer the future of TV, " says Tellem.
Skype, the Luxembourg communications firm, is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, a longtime Facebook partner.
Six months later Microsoft, a long-time partner, came to SunGard to talk about Windows 8.
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Microsoft appears to be a strategic partner in the process, which also involves readying apps for Windows 7.
In a break with longtime partner Intel, Microsoft announced the new version of Windows will run on ARM-based processors from Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.
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Microsoft and U.S. carrier partner Verizon Wireless have never revealed how many KINs were purchased during that short period.
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Therefore, I still think the Microsoft (MSFT) is the best dance partner for any of these players.
But Nokia was always going to have to accept the role as a junior partner when they paired up with Microsoft at the start of 2011, a position that Nokia is historically not used to.
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The following table showing recently announced updates to the 2013 Microsoft Product Roadmap first appeared on the Redmond Channel Partner website on march 18th.
Microsoft also announced deeper integration with ESPN, an exclusive partner on Xbox Live.
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