Podcasts about Microsoft Partner Network

How can you ensure a successful partnership with one of the largest hyperscalers in the world? Investing in your partner journey is essential to growing your business. Understanding programs and available incentives are vital and key to finding success.It's been a year since the Microsoft Partner Network became the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. Author, speaker and founder of Venvito Consulting, Rob Fegan shares why he decided to become a resource for Partners looking for greater success with the tech giant. Highlights include:Rob's leadership journey from being a Partner to becoming a champion for Partners.Keys to successfully navigating within Microsoft's complex ecosystem.What Microsoft is looking for from Partners.The 3 R's Framework of Revenue, Relevance and Relationships.The 3M Framework of Mindset, Messaging and Mechanics. If you want success as a partner, then understand the Cloud Partner Program, get your solution designations, show up in the marketplace and align with those who want nothing more than for your success like Rob and Venvito. Connect with Rob on LinkedIn and visit venvito.net, grab the Partner Score Sheet and get started on strengthening your success journey. --- more ---If you are looking to learn the art of audience engagement while listening for methods to conquer speaking anxiety, deliver persuasive presentations, and close more deals, then this is the podcast for you.Twins Talk it Up is a podcast where identical twin brothers Danny Suk Brown and David Suk Brown discuss leadership communication strategies to support professionals who believe in the power of their own authentic voice. Together, we will explore tips and tools to increase both your influence and value. Along the way, let's crush some goals, deliver winning sales pitches, and enjoy some laughs.Danny Suk Brown and David Suk Brown train on speaking and presentation skills. They also share from their keynote entitled, “Identically Opposite: the Pursuit of Identity”.Support and Follow us:YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCL18KYXdzVdzEwMH8uwLf6gInstagram: @twinstalkitupInstagram: @dsbleadershipgroupTwitter: @dsbleadershipLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/twins-talk-it-up/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/dsbleadershipgroup/Facebook: facebook.com/TwinsTalkitUpFacebook: facebook.com/dsbleadership/Website: dsbleadershipgroup.com/TwinsTalkitUp

Rachel B. Lee is a fearless marketing #ladyboss and the wife of Joshua B. Lee. Together they have formed a powerful business relationship that connects with audiences across the world. Rachel leads the marketing and branding strategy for Standout Authority and its clients and can help you find your voice and create influence like you've never imagined.She started her career at the marketing agency, Walton Isaacson, and managed some of Unilever's first social media driven consumer activations including AXE One Night Only. After receiving her MBA from the University of Texas, Austin, McCombs School of Business, she entered the technology industry at Microsoft. There she led branding, social media and content strategy, blog and influencer communities, podcasts, experiential, and more for the Microsoft Partner Network, an ecosystem of 300K small to enterprise size businesses digitally transforming the world.Rachel achieved over a billion impressions in 2017 as the social lead for Microsoft Inspire, and in 2018 won the Microsoft Inspire Speaker Excellence award for her session on modern selling and LinkedIn. Her multimillion dollar brand repositioning and messaging strategy for the Microsoft Partner Network still reaches millions. Most recently she served as a Gartner Senior Brand Manager leading Software Advice's brand and marketing strategy, a 15 year old $50M+ revenue business, all about helping small businesses find the right software through human conversation. She built a new brand identity and launched a multichannel brand media campaign building the brand's awareness in new innovative ways.She's passionate about helping students navigate their careers, so In her spare time, she's a Texas MBA and MS Marketing Industry Consultant helping our future leaders navigate their personal brands and build careers they love. Learn more about Rachel here!TwitterLinkedinLearn more about Path to Podcast Success here!

Rachel B. Lee is a fearless brand marketing #ladyboss.   After receiving her MBA from the University of Texas, Austin, McCombs School of Business, she entered the technology industry at Microsoft. Rachel achieved over a billion impressions in 2017 as the social lead for Microsoft Inspire and won the speaker excellence award in 2018 for her session on modern selling and LinkedIn. Her multimillion-dollar brand strategy for the Microsoft Partner Network still reaches millions. She's now Co-Owner and CMO of Standout Authority, helping C-Level executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners define their personal brand strategy, create influence, and build human connections online through the power of LinkedIn. Her website Overwhelmed? Snag the free guide, 10 Quick Ways to Conquer Overwhelm! It's my gift to you. http://OverwhelmSucks.com WHO IS MARK STRUCZEWSKI? Mark “Ski” Struczewski (also known as Mister Productivity) is a productivity expert that is obsessed with helping 100 million solopreneurs bust through overwhelm by 2032.

Det kommer konstant nyheter kring vår partnerorganisation, men hur säljer man egentligen tillsammans med Microsoft och varför ska man bry sig om MCPP? Klas Hammar är chef för affärsutveckling med partners och allt han inte kan om att vara partner till Microsoft är inte värt att veta. Ett superintressant avsnitt där vi kommer in på allt från att börja som partner i Microsoft Partner Network till att skala ut som global services partner världen över tillsammans med Microsoft.Microsoft CompetenciesMicrosoft Solution PartnerMicrosoft Partner Blog - MCPP Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month's partner podcast features Umbrellar guests David Howden (CEO) and Alexandr Basan (Head of Product & Commerce) and covers the latest happenings in and around Umbrellar. Nadia and Dave chat about the recently announced rebranding of the Microsoft Partner Network to the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program as of October this year. Dave shares the reasons why he feels it represents a big step forward in simplifying and consolidating the program and will provide robust, objective measurements of progress for partners. Alex, Dave and Nadia discuss the reasons behind the small change to billing cycles happening in May and how the new billing preview feature soon to be available for Umbrellar customers is going to make life in the cloud so much easier. The gang finish off with a public service announcement about Umbrellar Connect's weekly newsletter, where partners can get all the latest on what's happening in NZ tech - and share their own stories to over seven thousand readers every week.

Welcome back to A Shot of Business Central and A Beer, presented by Solution Systems, a Gold Microsoft Partner. In this special episode we're talking about Microsoft's New Commerce Experience, the updated Microsoft Partner Network, and the Business Central Universal Code Initiative. Subscribe to the Podcast on all Platforms! ➢ https://www.solsyst.com/podast-locations Microsoft Software Information: ➢ Dynamics 365 Business Central: https://www.solsyst.com/dynamics-365-business-centralMake ordering, selling, invoicing, reporting, and manufacturing easier and faster. ➢ Dynamics 365 for Sales: https://www.solsyst.com/dynamics-365-for-salesDifferentiate your business, build loyalty, and maintain your reputation with Microsoft CRM. ➢ Microsoft 365: https://www.solsyst.com/microsoft-365-businessFamiliar, secure, top-of-the-line productivity and collaboration tools that are always the latest version. ➢ Power BI: https://www.solsyst.com/microsoft-power-biTransform your company's data into rich visuals and spot trends as they happen and push your business further. Follow Solution Systems ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solution_systems/ ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Solution-Systems-Inc-354733749699/ ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Solution_System ➢ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solution-systems-inc- ➢ Blog: https://www.solsyst.com/blog Podcast Hosts ➢ Ken Sebahar | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-sebahar-26237515/ ➢ Michael Intravartolo | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/intravartolo/ Podcast Directed by Ken Sebahar ➢ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-sebahar-26237515/ Podcast Produced by Michael Intravartolo ➢ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/intravartolo/ #Podcast #MSDyn365bc #ERP #Microsoft #Software

PSA Impact is a podcast series hosted by Chris Timm and Rayanne Buchianico. The series is PSA independent and is designed to help MSPs worldwide get the most from their PSA tool and to manage their business. Visit us at https://www.psaimpact.net. In this episode, Chris and Rayanne welcome Daniel Johnson and Nathan Taylor from machineLOGIC as they explain their proactive approach in navigating the upcoming changes with Microsoft. machineLOGIC is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has been recognized as one of the top performing and innovative Managed Service Providers in the world according to industry publications such as Channel Futures, CRN Magazine, and Inc 5000's Fastest Growing Companies in America. Episode links and resources: Microsoft Partner Network: http://aka.ms/nceincsp T-Minus 365 Blog for MSPs: https://tminus365.com/ Nathan Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathantaylorit/ Daniel Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/machinelogic/ machineLOGIC blog: https://news.machinelogic.com/blog

“The power in the world that we're living in today is in Personal Branding. That is the game-changer. I don't think there's been another time in our history where that mattered so much.” - Rachel B. Lee   Rachel B. Lee is a fearless marketing #ladyboss and the wife of Joshua B. Lee. Together they have formed a powerful business relationship that connects with audiences across the world. Rachel leads the marketing and branding strategy for Standout Authority and its clients and can help you find your voice and create influence like you've never imagined.    She started her career at the marketing agency, Walton Isaacson, and managed some of Unilever's first social media-driven consumer activations including AXE One Night Only.    After receiving her MBA from the University of Texas, Austin, McCombs School of Business, she entered the technology industry at Microsoft. There she led branding, social media and content strategy, blog and influencer communities, podcasts, experiential, and more for the Microsoft Partner Network, an ecosystem of 300K small to enterprise size businesses digitally transforming the world.   Rachel achieved over a billion impressions in 2017 as the social lead for Microsoft Inspire, and in 2018 won the Microsoft Inspire Speaker Excellence award for her session on modern selling and LinkedIn. Her multimillion-dollar brand repositioning and messaging strategy for the Microsoft Partner Network still reaches millions.    Most recently she served as a Gartner Senior Brand Manager leading Software Advice's brand and marketing strategy, a 15-year-old $50M+ revenue business, all about helping small businesses find the right software through human conversation. She built a new brand identity and launched a multichannel brand media campaign building the brand's awareness in new innovative ways.    She's passionate about helping students navigate their careers, and also serves as an Industry Consultant for the University of Texas, McCombs School of Business, MBA, and MS Marketing students. Helping job seekers and our future leaders develop their personal brands and build careers is something she's very proud of.    Follow Rachel on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by Aura Merchandising, a proud women-owned full-service brand marketing, and global sourcing agency. Visit them at www.auralimited.com Find Us Online! Website: www.iamjuliethahn.com Instagram: @iamjuliethahn Twitter: @iamjuliethahn LinkedIn: Juliet Hahn FB: Juliet Hahn Fireside: Juliet Hahn Clubhouse: @iamjuliethahn YouTube: Juliet Hahn

Tania Yuki, Founder and CEO of Shareablee explains her journey of starting Shareablee. If you're in a corporate setting where data analytics is your specialty, this is for you! The data is available; the question becomes how do you use it and that's what Shareablee will help your team accomplish with their custom tailored solutions. About Shareablee: Shareablee's curated data empowers brands to drive success on social. Monitoring more than 1M global companies and 9M+ influencers, Shareablee has been the leading authority on audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking and actionable insights since 2013. With comprehensive monitoring in more than 55 countries, Shareablee is the world's largest system of social performance data for brands and agencies who want to understand the impact of their cross-platform campaigns. Our partnerships include the Facebook Media Measurement Program, Microsoft Partner Network and the Bloomberg Marketplace. https://www.shareablee.com #InsightStudio #marketedge #dataanalytics #shareablee #tiktok #influencers

In this episode of shoot the moon podcast, Revenue Rocket's CEO Mike Harvath and EVP of Business Development Matt Lockhart sit down with Brent Combest, General Manager, One Commercial Partner at Microsoft. Hear what is in the works at Microsoft and how the partner network of Microsoft Managed Partners around the world will play a role. The dialog spans the past lessons learned, trends, and the momentum seen in cloud services and technology categories and how M&A plays a role in the construct of the Microsoft Partner Program.Discover how the next 18 to 24 months are critical to IT service providers remaining relevant, as growth fueled by M&A combinations along with technology enablement advancements will see those not capitalizing on the strategic benefits fall short and eventually priced out of the industry. This episode is a must-listen!

In this episode of "Steve has a Chat", I catch up again with Steven Guggenheimer "Guggs" to get the latest on the ISV Connect program. It seems that the word is out at Microsoft about calls from me... they all seem ready now. But I still had a few surprises for him.  Enjoy! BTW, don't forget, Mark Smith (@nz365guy) and I do PowerUpLive every Tuesday at 4PM EST, click here to be alerted, and here's a link to the replays! Transcript below: Steven Guggenheimer: Hello. This is Guggs. Steve Mordue: Hey, Guggs. Steve Mordue. How you doing? Steven Guggenheimer: Good. How are you doing? Steve Mordue: You know how I'm doing. You know why I'm here. Steven Guggenheimer: I do. I do. I assume we're get to go do a little update session, and so I know or I assume you're recording and- Steve Mordue: You bet I am. Steven Guggenheimer: ... whatever I say is ready to go. Steve Mordue: You got time? Steven Guggenheimer: Sure. Yeah, I got a little time. Steve Mordue: All right. Perfect, perfect. Well, it's been a while since we talked. It's actually been a while since we've heard from you. I was looking, and I think November was the last post, kind of an update to the world of what's going on. I've been hearing the hammers banging back in the background, but lots of folks, lots of ISVs are reaching out to me for some reason or other, saying, "Hey, what's the latest? What's going on? What's happening on that ISV front?" Steven Guggenheimer: Yep. Like you said, lots of hammers in the background. Once you get into that middle of the year, you're just mostly heads down trying to do two things, trying to solidify all the work that's going on for this year, so working with the field. The team went out and did a field tour and, on lots of calls, we have our middle of the year checkpoint. You're just grinding away on that, and you start doing the planning for the next fiscal year. It turns out our Q3, which is January, February, March, is kind of double busy. You're working pretty hard to do whatever tweaks you need for this year and you're busy planning for the next year, and so I think everybody's been pretty heads down. Steven Guggenheimer: Then you get into January and February with the virus coming out, I think you're busy trying to figure out, "Are we going to do [MBAS 00:02:13] live?" You plan for one version of it, and then you plan for a different. You're working with customers and partners. I think all of those things combined means everybody's busy. My virtual team gets together on a regular basis, and I've got a couple of calls after this, so that's where we're at. Steve Mordue: The ISVs have definitely had some challenges with Microsoft. Not all of this, of course, is within your area. You're working on the program for ISVs that will link to the products, which you're not related to the products. You're related the program. But on the product side, even, the ISVs are having some challenges. I know that there's been ISVs that... The platform keeps shifting, keeps moving around, new things added, things dropped. I even know some ISVs that have said, "Hey, they just launched something, and it kind of wiped out my whole solution." Steve Mordue: I think there's multiple things going on on the ISV side that's got a lot of them nervous, and I think they're looking for some reassurance that, "We bet on the right platform, and was that a good bet, and when are we going to see a payoff on that bet?" What kinds of things can you say to maybe reassure some of these ISVs that are out there that are scratching their heads saying, "Hmm, what's next? I mean was this a good bet?" Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. I can't think of a better bet right now, but that's me. Of course, I'm on the wrong side of the fence for that. The- Steve Mordue: Well, we're all biased. Even us ISVs are biased. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah, we're all biased. Steve Mordue: We're all biased. Steven Guggenheimer: Well, people want a little reassurance that, to your point, that they made good decisions. From a platform and product perspective, there's probably never been more energy in the combination of Power Platform and D365 than we have today. I talked a lot about product truth. I didn't think there was a lot of product truth for an ISV in the platform SaaS offerings if you go back five years when we were in the DPDx days. Steven Guggenheimer: James and [Mohamed 00:04:24] and Charles have just been cranking along, and so from the breadth of the portfolio and the quality in that link to Azure going down the stack and that link to SharePoint and M365 going up the stack and the coherence in the platform. Then we've been cleaning up. I mean God bless the team for all the work they've had to do to clean up just years and years of monolithic offerings that weren't in good shape. That speaks a little bit to the change of the underlying platform. Steven Guggenheimer: We're probably as solid as we've ever been. We've got a twice-a-year release train. The notes come out early. We did an ISV session for the partners to get ahead of it. We'll do that again on an every-six-month basis. Satya is sort of heavily invested. Scott's heavily invested. Amy, our CFO, is heavily invested. I think there's both product or platform truth. There's good energy in the marketplace. I mean we're growing very well. Steven Guggenheimer: Can't say anything. Q3 will be coming up, but you look at Q2 and Q1, you look at just quarter over quarter, now the platform's growing and, if the platform's growing, that's opportunity, in particular, Power Platform, Power BI, some of the D365 services. I think all of that speaks to just incredible momentum. I see a decent number of ISVs coming into the program and the platform unsolicited wanting to take part in that. Steven Guggenheimer: Now, the one place people might feel a little discomfort is, as the platform solidifies and as the services solidify and we add things like AI and mixed reality in there, there might be places where people were making an investment or were looking to extend that we might be extending in that area. I would say, look, if you're an ISV on the Microsoft platform, historically, one of your trademarks is being somewhat nimble. I don't care if it's all the way back to the Windows days and Windows 95 working your way up through the internet era or intelligent cloud, intelligent edge. The value of a platform is that balance between giving developers something to build on and having enough coherence and consistency that both customers and ISVs can count on it. Steven Guggenheimer: There's a fine balance there in terms of where you add features or functionality or new capabilities to keep up with what your competitors are doing, to keep up with what the customers are asking for. It's a balancing act. I think the good thing, at least in the Dynamics side, is that we're always open for conversation. Whether it's myself or Greg or Mohamed or Charles, look, we'll pick up the phone and we'll have the discussion. There'll be places where people might feel uncomfortable that we've gone in that direction. Great. We'll have that conversation, and we'll talk about, roughly, where we're going without breaking NDAs on either side. Steven Guggenheimer: My feedback to ISVs has always been the, "There's always someone at Microsoft who thinks, someday, they're going to build something that competes with you, so let's focus on the 90% where we don't compete and know that there's going to be 10%." I think that's just a truism. Look, energy is really good. I mean product coherence is good. Product truth is good. If you look at what's going on, right now, during the COVID response and the pickup for the Power Platform in terms of helping hospitals and healthcare workers and quick solutions, holy crud. Steven Guggenheimer: Then the new areas are good conversation, so let's have the discussion. I mean I know a lot of the historical ISVs have been around a long time, and some of the work they did that was either custom on the product side or custom in terms of working with our field as we make that available to everybody, that feels a little less comfortable. We do a good amount of handholding for that. Steve Mordue: Yeah. I think one of the things you guys have been telling ISVs, for years, as a way to build a business but also, in a way, to protect your business is to go vertical. The more vertical you can get, the safer you are. You guys are not going to go there. A lot of horizontal ISVs, and they're... If you're horizontal, you're plugging a hole. You're always at risk that Microsoft's going to get around to the time to plug that hole. You're definitely safer going vertical. Steven Guggenheimer: That's for sure, and that's even more true today. As some of our competitors invest in the acquisition of vertical solutions, it opens up that direction more. I would say, as a company, we're making that pivot, albeit slowly but surely, to industry-led versus product-led. We've always had product conversations. We've always had audience conversations, developers or IT pros. We've always had sides of organization enterprise, but industry was always kind of a... not as strong a direction in terms of how we went to market. We pivoted the company pretty heavily, and Azure's doing a lot of this work at M365, and so is Dynamics. In industry-based solutions, those are always the ones that get the best pickup, and now our sales force is pivoting more and more in that direction. That's the way to stay aligned. Steve Mordue: Yeah. You talked about nimble. Frankly, one of the challenges some of these ISVs have is they're not that nimble. They built a bunch of IP on something, and their goal was to just sit back and collect checks, but you can't do that anymore. We're no longer in a space you just build something and sit on it for years. You may not be able to sit on it for months before you've got to go back in, modify, refactor, take advantage of some new technology or... It's a continuous motion now for ISVs. They're in continuous development mode where they didn't use to be. It was like, "We're going to go build something, sit on it, and cash in." Steven Guggenheimer: And particular in this space, and we see it a lot. I use the term, sometimes, there's this notion of lifestyle businesses where you build something and it supports the lifestyle, and there's not a lot of interest or energy in reinvesting to change it or modify it. Truthfully, that doesn't work. There are places where- Steve Mordue: Tell me about it. Steven Guggenheimer: They're- Steve Mordue: That's what I've been trying to do. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah, it's not working. Part of the blog series I've been working on, it's called Continuous Transformation, and it's all... If you look at 25 years or the 26 years of Microsoft, all we've ever done is evolved and changed, and it's driven by technology and scale and culture. I can't remember a period of time where something's not upending the conversation. Steve Mordue: Yeah, but the pace is much greater in the past few years. The shift to the cloud and the catch up, really, because we were behind getting in the cloud, the catch up necessitated a pace that we have not ever seen from Microsoft, this kind of a pace. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. I think, in the line of business application space or the Dynamics/Power Platform, we were further behind in that move, as a Microsoft property, than some of the others, be it Office or Azure, and so we're doing a lot of catch up, and that's why think that... I talked a lot about product truth. I think they've done a phenomenal job, but that's like a bit of a whip where we're as close to it as you can be and, the further out you get, the more you're going to have to go and make those changes, and you're playing a lot of catch up. Steven Guggenheimer: The truth is, D365, there were custom deals floating around there and custom support and all kinds of things that, as you modernize and change, that goes away. I think some [crosstalk 00:12:10]- Steve Mordue: It's not scalable, yeah. Steven Guggenheimer: Well, people get frustrated because they had this special deal. Well, look, we don't even build that product anymore or that product's not one we're trying to sell. We're off doing cloud stuff, so no, we're not going to go renew a set of terms or a set of conditions for something that we're not trying to drive anymore. The market's moved on. That's gone, and so you need to go modify and change your solution to meet the current market needs. Yeah. Steven Guggenheimer: On one hand, I get it. On the other hand, look, the time to move is now. The world is moving, and the opportunity is very good. Despite current conditions which are there, look, there's... The world, the first thing they move is their infrastructure as a service. They move the core horizontal infrastructure out, but sooner or later, the next thing they're going to do is they're going to want to go to a set of SaaS applications. They're not going to want to have a cloud-based infrastructure then run some client server on-premises solution. They're going to want to set a SaaS services. Steven Guggenheimer: Even though people may feel like it's a push or it's a hurry, that's where the world's going. We're going to go push on it, and you need to move your solutions there. Steve Mordue: I'll tell you, it's been very acute, these folks that have on-premise solutions, particularly if they're physically on premise, with this virus and the push to send everybody to work from home in organizations that really weren't set up for people to work from home from a technical standpoint. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. Steve Mordue: I'm sure there are people out there now that are thinking, "Damn, I wish we were in the cloud right now because those guys got it pretty easy working from home if you already made this transition." It's very acute right now. Steve Mordue: I was talking to Charles two weeks ago. I pounced on him, or a week ago, I pounced on him for a call. He was saying one of the things that's a- Steven Guggenheimer: You are getting a bit of a reputation, but keep going. Steve Mordue: Yeah. People are going to be scared and have my number blocked. Steven Guggenheimer: Nobody's going to pick up the phone. Steve Mordue: One of the things he said that was a big focus right now is making everything work better. It's like we were firing off lots of solutions, getting them to like 90%, move on to the next one, fire it off, fire it off. Now there's this effort to kind of go back to this. Let's close these gaps. As he was talking about, there's still some significant gaps in not the product truth. The product truth is there, but there's some gaps that they're now really going to focus on closing. It feels like it's kind of like it's time to do that. We've shot out tons of things. Now let's go back, tighten them all up, and then go back to revisit shooting out more things so- Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah, I think that's right. You look for gaps and overlaps. You look for how do we take all the AI scenarios? They're kind of scattered. Can we bring some of them together? Do they make sense together? When they first came into the portfolio, they were sort of all independent, so we ran them uniquely and independently and just kept them going and, excuse me, tried to find alignment with the various SaaS services. Now you go back and you say, okay, where is their consistency? Where is the sum of the parts greater than the individual? Steven Guggenheimer: You go and you look for whether it's process automation and the work we're doing there, whether it's the power of virtual agent. If you look at what they've done in terms of for COVID-19 in terms of using a virtual agent, making it available, how do you turn these into tools that can really scale and operate and work at the levels needed? Steven Guggenheimer: I think Mohamed's got the same thing. There's a bunch of solution areas as we took ERP and CRM and took them into their natural marketing and sales and finance and operations, and we picked up some other areas. He's doing that same work. Now is a beautiful time to not necessarily double the number of offerings or add a whole bunch of new products. It's now is the time to take the momentum we've got and the offerings we've got and fill in the gaps and, where there's overlap, bring things together, make these things really operate at scale. Steven Guggenheimer: When you have the energy and you've got the interest, then what you start to get is feedback on what you're missing or what's not quite right. We want to take advantage of this time to go work on that. Steve Mordue: Let me circle this back to your space, the ISV side specifically. Over the past month, I've had two calls with some folks on your team that were looking for my opinion about some complaints they were getting, because you know I have opinions, about some complaints they were getting from some ISVs that had built their solution depending on this Team Member license and the changes to Team Member. I am actually aware of a couple of these ISVs that actually built their solution on the Team Member license without regard for the restrictions of that license. Certainly pretty easy to make your ISV solution have a lot of appeal if you've put it on a lesser license than it should be on. Steven Guggenheimer: Right. Steve Mordue: They're complaining now about the changes. Both of your folks had asked me my thought about that. I said, basically, "The hell with them." I mean I have no sympathy for somebody who built a solution on top of a license they shouldn't have. If you can't make revenue on the right license, then your solution's not right or you're thing isn't right. I mean do you have similar feelings of lack of sympathy for those folks that did those things? Steven Guggenheimer: I sort of think about it a little bit differently. Yes, look, there's people that take advantage of, it maybe intentionally or unintentionally, of licensing they shouldn't. That just has to get fixed, and we'll go work on that. Steven Guggenheimer: What there is that I think about is there are two scenarios that I think of as light use or light functionality scenarios. If you have something, a very large group of people... Students is a good example. Healthcare workers might be a good example. Pick your scenario where you have lots of people, and you have some people that are heavy users, and you have some people who might touch the solution once or twice a year or who touch the solution quite often, but they need just a very lightweight answer to it. They're not- Steve Mordue: A light touch. Steven Guggenheimer: They're users. They're users versus creators. That lightweight or light touch scenario is one we still are trying to figure out the right scenario for because there's not a great license type for this. By the way, this isn't a Dynamics-type conversation. I can say the same thing for Office for all the years it was there and people would talk about different types of workers. It's one of the- Steve Mordue: Contract workers, things like that. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah, yeah. They used to use the term knowledge workers, and there was something else I can't remember. There is a collective challenge, which is how do you build a licensing framework where you can't tell between the two, light touch or light use, or you can tell but there's no consistency. If I ask the question, "What does light touch mean to one ISV or light use?" I'll get a very different answer than what I get from another one, so you can't design a licensing type that works for everyone. Steven Guggenheimer: That's one where I definitely have some empathy. It's not a sympathy term. I get it. I don't know what the answer is. To your point, ultimately, you have to design the solution to work with the licensing types that are out there. There's this funny juxtaposition between everybody wants simplicity but everybody wants all ultimate choice. Well, those two things aren't the same. You either get simple or you have the... and not as much choice or you get all the choice in the world. It's the most complex thing you'll ever seen, and so I don't know the answer to solving for this one. Steven Guggenheimer: I know that the licensing teams are very aware of it. They've had tons of these calls, in a good way, but there's not... I don't know the answer. I haven't seen anybody figure out the answer in 10-plus years of banging heads on this, and so I do think trying to design a solution for the licensing types that are out there is the right thing to do. Team doesn't serve that purpose. It's gone relative to that where people try to use it for something that it wasn't designed for, which in many cases, is that light use, light tough scenario, but it doesn't work. Steven Guggenheimer: We'll keep banging our heads. We'll keep talking to people. People do have to work within the licensing confines that are out there. We're always evolving them. We're always taking feedback. We're always trying to do better. Assuming something's going to come magically, it doesn't happen. Steve Mordue: We're not alone there. I was reading the Forrester Report on low-code solutions. We're obviously up there at the top now with a couple of others. The negative for all of the ones at the top was overly complex licensing. I was just thinking to myself, "You know what? Whoever figures that out is going to win because that's the thing holding all of the low-code platforms back a little bit is people can't figure out how to buy it." They just can't. Partners can't figure out what to sell. Customers can't figure out what to buy, too many moving parts in the licensing. Fortunately, we're not the only ones that have that problem, but whoever could figure that out is really... I'm sure you guys have got some smart people trying to figure that out. Steve Mordue: A couple of other things before I let you go. On- Steven Guggenheimer: Well, just on that one, there's also a difference between the customer angle for that and the ISV angle. Trying to figure out a licensing framework that works well for customers and ISVs, whether it's the low-code scenario or some of these others, it adds to the complexity. I highlight that in the sense that customers are a big chunk of... That's typically where we start first when we're working on a licensing framework because they're the... many times are the purchasers or it ends up as part of a broader agreement set, and so we have to figure that out, and so that- Steve Mordue: Actually, I think it's easier for ISVs because, as an ISV, I can figure out and understand what license would be necessary to run my solution and talk to a customer about, "Here's exactly what you need to run my solution." Bigger challenge, I think, for customers and SIs where a customer's like, "We want to do all these wonderful things," and then for them to try and figure out what kind of licenses they might need to accomplish those things. At least I know what I'm doing with my solution. It's pretty straightforward. I may have to shift it from a license I used to have it on to some different licensing construct as things changes, but it's a little easier for me. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. Steve Mordue: One of the things that came up in one of my calls with a pretty good size ISV recently was the lack of... I think he told me his costs this year are going to be over $90,000 for Microsoft licensing to be able to actually build and develop their solutions on between their multiple sandboxes, different things like that. It's a frustration for him that, "I'm building an ISV solution, a big one. I have lots of customers that are generating licenses and revenue for Microsoft, but I'm having to spend, as an ISV, a ton of money to even be able to do that." Steve Mordue: We had that ISV competency out for about eight minutes, decided that wasn't a good path. Some of the other paths to get IUR and those sorts of things that you would need to build on aren't always relevant for ISVs. The biggest thing the ISV competency really gave was, "Here. Here's some benefits. Here's some resources for you to go build on." What can we tell those folks that... I mean this guy's literally having to buy retail. You know? Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. That's a Microsoft-level challenge in many ways. It's the what's the benefits? It really comes out of the MPN, the Microsoft Partner Network. What's the benefits? That's where that competency came from of being a partner and, if you're an ISV, how can you get access to the software you need to build a solution? Steven Guggenheimer: I know that the team is deeply aware of that. It's from the day the ISV competency went away to through all the conversations. I haven't checked in in a while to see where they are on coming up with an offering. I'll go back and ask. It's a good question. I don't know. Look, I don't know the answer, the how do you provide software? It ends up being, to your point, sandboxes or one-offs or these other things versus what's the programmatic approach that scales across Azure, Dynamics/Power Platform at M365? How do we make it available? What do you need to do to qualify, as a partner, so it's not just out there for everybody? It's an expensive offering [crosstalk 00:25:23]- Steve Mordue: Yeah, so is manning an ISV practice with developers and people to build, so- Steven Guggenheimer: Yep. No, they're both... That's right. Steve Mordue: Yep. Steven Guggenheimer: How do we find that balance? I don't know. Again, it's a little bit like a light-usage, lightweight licensing SKU where I haven't seen the answer to that. This is one of those ones that pops up and down in terms of, sometimes, we seem to give a lot of benefit in that direction, and sometimes we don't. Let me go back. I'll go back. It could be one of the last things I can go poke on a little bit, especially since- Steve Mordue: Yeah. That would be good. Steven Guggenheimer: Especially since I know Nick super well. Nick Parker took over the... He has the ISV remit underneath him now, so I'll go bug him about that. Steve Mordue: Yeah, we kind of kicked the can down the road when the ISV competency went away, kind of grandfathered everybody into business biz apps or some other competency while we figured it out, but now we'll be looking at people coming up on that expiring, and they'll be like, "Okay, now what do I got?" I mean it's obviously a big expense for ISVs when they're looking at partnering with Microsoft. They're thinking, "Here's something you can do for me," but other things- Steven Guggenheimer: No, that's super constant, consistent feedback. That's not a new one. We probably had that conversation the first time we did a call and- Steve Mordue: Every time since. Steven Guggenheimer: Every time since, and I still haven't... It's one I get to poke on. It's not one that I own, but it's one that I'll go poke on again. Steve Mordue: How is ISV Connect? Have you guys collected revenue yet? Are we at the point where we're collecting revenue from ISVs? Steven Guggenheimer: Oh, yeah. Yeah, collecting revenue. We crossed 1,000 ISVs that have signed the agreements. I think we've crossed 1,000 apps in AppSource now. We've done all the work to remove the ones that didn't go through certification that didn't join ISV Connect. Steven Guggenheimer: We're actually in a good in a good spot. We've got a decent number at the 20% level, and we're trying to get the ones that our field is really asking for aligned with more of the 20-percenters because those are the ones that are going to close out with the most. I feel really good about the getting people into the program. We've gotten the time to do the certification down. That's all been cleaned up. I think terms and conditions, we've been through all of that. We're heading into the next year. We won't add a lot, so keep it simple, do more of the same. Steven Guggenheimer: The place we're spending energy now is on the benefits side. We've got almost all the partners activated with their marketing benefits now, and they've had the call, and we're working on that. On the co-selling side, look, we're continuing to do the work with the field to drive that forward. Some people feel pretty good about it and we get really good feedback, and some people don't feel as good quite yet, and so we're working on both of those. Steven Guggenheimer: Now as you head into Q4 with an economic challenge around the world, everybody hunkers down a little bit, so we're going to have to work a little harder. One of my meetings later today is how do we stay focused on the right things and the fewest number of things to keep the momentum going as we head into this year and next? We're doing the planning for what would we tune for next year. Overall, it's going well. Steven Guggenheimer: The operations, a lot of the challenges we had, once you got past the people discomfort with a new program, a lot of challenges we had were operations. We're cleaning those up. We have some marketplace work to do. We've had good calls with that team. When people give us feedback, we understand it. We're doing the engineering work now. I sort of feel like we'll work our way through Q4 this year and then, as we head into the next year, we'll have both an engineering uptick on operations work, on the marketplace, on the back end. There's work going on on Partner Center because it's going to scale to more and more partners across the company. Steven Guggenheimer: I feel pretty good, not perfect. I always say these things are a journey and they take time, that's for sure, and so we'll- Steve Mordue: Yeah, yeah. It always takes longer than you think, right? Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah, yeah. I'm scarred enough to know that we still got another year of cranking away, but we're in a good spot given where we were. The energy's in a good place. We just got to keep focused and keep going. Steve Mordue: Yeah. Maybe there's a way to solve both those problems. I seem to recall, at least, the initial benefits that were being, "Here, in exchange for the rev share, we're going to give you guys these benefits." A lot of those benefits were targeting brand-new ISVs. A lot of the benefits on that list for an established ISV, they were like, "Oh, I don't need this. I don't need this. I don't need a bunch of these things as an established ISV." Those are all, certainly, high value to someone brand-new to the platform, which is something we all want is more ISVs. Maybe there's a way to tie in those IURs or the benefits back to, "Okay, you don't want a marketing thing? Fine. How about if we give you some credits that you could use towards the underlying platform stuff you might need that could be a little more value to those folks?" Steven Guggenheimer: That's some of the conversations we're having is which benefits are people finding value in? Where would they like to see other benefits? The IUR is a constant one, so that one I sort of table off on the side because it's a consistent. Steve Mordue: Yeah, yeah. Definitely, benefits will be different for someone brand new to the platform who's never done anything versus someone who's been there for a long time. Let me ask- Steven Guggenheimer: Right. This is one of the trade-offs when you go... A platform is only as strong as its ecosystem. To make the ecosystem stronger, you're going to add more people in, and so you're going to bring people in. Part of what you're trying to do is attract that. Not all of those things feel great for the people that have been there and been working on it. That's where a little bit of the tuning and being agile helps because you're adapting to... Look, the platforms are going to scale and grow. It's in a good spot, so there's going to be more people you know on it, and so we have to find that the tools that work for everyone. Steve Mordue: Yeah. Thanks to your little kick, I got a call next week with about a dozen people on the AppSource team, so they're going to get an earful of all my opinions so they can put that in the mixer. Steven Guggenheimer: No, I think it'll be good because look... and they know. To be honest with you, they know. We told them, "Look, it's better to hear directly. There's a couple of folks, we're having them talk to you. They're sending me the feedback," and then they can tell you where they're at and what they're doing and why it's taking a little longer than maybe people had hoped for. That's the beauty of doing it right and getting it fixed is... not the beauty, the reality. Steve Mordue: Necessity. Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah, the reality or the necessity. It's a little like rebooting this program. Steve Mordue: I want to wrap up here because I don't want to take up too much of your time. Steven Guggenheimer: Yep. Yeah, I got somebody- Steve Mordue: You recently announced a retirement. Steven Guggenheimer: Yep. Steve Mordue: Coming soon. Who's going to be stepping into your shoes for this ISV motion? Figured that out yet? Has that been just thought about? Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. No, we're going to move the team into another part of the organization. It'll be close to the Accelerator Team, which used to report to me anyway, and the Industry Team and with one of our real good leaders and with DSI. It'll end up in a spot with Greg and Sean still running their teams aligned with the work going on for another key part of the ecosystems, which is SIs, and the industry work, which has a ton of ISV work. It's all the accelerators. Again, that team used to report into my org, so it'll feel like a pretty natural connection into places it would fit and the people we've worked with pretty closely all along. Steve Mordue: You're going to have every single one of these issues fixed, buttoned up, running like a well-oiled machine before you walk out the door, right? Steven Guggenheimer: I'm going to stay committed to doing the best job to make sure we're set up well for our next fiscal year to transitioning well and to being there. Then I'll be around for a little longer to make sure if there's questions or engagements that are needed to done that I do them. Steve Mordue: All right, cool. Well, I'm looking forward to everything that that comes. Thanks for making the time for the call. Steven Guggenheimer: No worries. I always enjoy a surprise call on whatever day it is. Days get lost nowadays, but- Steve Mordue: Yeah. I'll bet you enjoy them, right? Steven Guggenheimer: Yeah. Steve Mordue: All right, man. Have a good one. Steven Guggenheimer: All right. We'll talk you, Steve. Take care. Bye.

I recently tweeted a link to an obscure Microsoft post I found about eliminating IUR. I thought at the time, "this is going to get messy". I followed up with a post on it myself, which promptly blew up, and now there is actually a petition someone started. Just to be clear... I did not sign this petition, and I will not be wielding any pitchforks at Inspire. Why not? It Had to Happen The vaunted "Microsoft Partner Network"! Wow, that sends chills down the spines of all other software companies! "Oh no! Here comes a Microsoft Gold Partner! We might as well just pack it in, we don't stand a chance", said Salesforce or SAP never. The ones who are the most impressed by Microsoft "Gold" partners, have always been Microsoft Silver partners. The Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) is a legacy construct, designed for an era that has passed. In fact, I think the entire MPN today is constipated! Wait, I thought you were with us! It seems that many folks read my post and tweets as a rallying cry, but if you re-read it now, knowing that it was not, it will sound quite different to you. This is not the first time I have landed on the bank opposite of the screaming hordes. The recently introduced ISV revenue-sharing model was another brouhaha that most seemed to have assumed that I, as an ISV, would have had a tantrum over. Instead, I was all for the changes. The fact that I have written some rather scathing reviews of things that I thought were dumb moves by Microsoft, does not mean that I think Microsoft is dumb. I am not "that guy", but I have met "that guy". I run into them at every event, and they frequently comment on my posts. They can clearly see the conspiracies that I am obviously missing. Like, how at every event Microsoft has these kids in purple shirts standing around with tablets... appearing like they are giving you directions... but what are they really doing? Back to MPN Microsoft is not good at giving news that they feel will be poorly received. With the exception of Guggs, who seems eager to stick his face into a fire, the rest would rather hide. But just because Microsoft is staffed by chickens, doesn't mean they're always wrong. In fact, over recent years, it would seem that are right way more often than they are wrong. But even though things are publicly looking great for Microsoft right now, there are leaks in the ship. None that will sink it, but if not addressed, they will cause issues in the near future. MPN is leaking like a sieve. Within MPN are a lot of things, beyond just training and competencies. Your MPN membership controls everything about your relationship with Microsoft, or lack thereof. Competencies As far as partners without a competency are concerned, competencies are a shitty way to grade partners. First of all, they are not required. You could well be a highly capable firm with many professionals, selling a butt-load of licenses, but unless you opted to pay the fee, you are not Microsoft competent. Conversely, up until recently, any firm with a handful of people and few deals, could opt to pay the fee and voilà, they're a Microsoft Gold Partner! So basically competencies as they existed, were pretty much a sham. BTW, I am saying that as a current Gold partner, not one of those petty and envious Silver ones. A lot of noise was made recently about the required increases in certified individuals and revenue to maintain a competency, but in reality Gold didn't mean shit anymore, and Silver never did. Microsoft's entire competencies strategy needs an overhaul, pulling the IUR benefits out of it, just stopped some bleeding from a program that was not working... for anybody. 80:20 We're all familiar with the 80:20 rule; 80% of the value that Microsoft accrues from their Partner Network, probably comes from less than 20% of the Partners in that network. Those who are calling for revolt, creating petitions, and threatening to leave the channel are in the 80%. So, on the unauthorized behalf of Microsoft let me say... "Please Leave!". How much more nimble and focused could Microsoft be, if they lopped off the 80% deadwood in their channel? How much time and money could they save, by instead of catering to partners who ain't doing shit, just hitting the delete button? To put this into context, I thought I had heard recently that there were like 600,000 Microsoft Partners Worldwide. Even if that number is way off, how many partners does Microsoft actually need to accomplish their "new" goals? I mean, 20% is still 120,000 partners! Never say Never Satya Nadella himself proclaimed "Microsoft has always been a partner led company and will always be a partner led company". Hmm... it seems like he should have left some wiggle room there. I can easily see a Microsoft without partners, or at least with a fraction of them. Microsoft itself suffers from Pavlovian conditioning, opening every partner presentation with the obligatory "Thank You Partners!" slide, and then going though a whole deck on how developers are no longer required. Many partners, and all LSPs are basically order takers for Microsoft, while at the same time Microsoft continues to expand it's direct sales capabilities at an unprecedented rate. "Reselling" licenses is a pointless relic in the SaaS world. Lipstick on a Pig I had something great for this heading, but I feel like I am starting to sound like a raving lunatic already, so I will save it for a future post.

A conversation with Padang & Co and Microsoft. Learn more about the mindset behind Microsoft Partners Network, and the unique approach they employ in partnering with startups and developing long-term, synergistic relationships with them. Featured Guests: Adam Lyle, Executive Chairman, Padang & Co Emily Rich, Managing Director of Startups, Microsoft Emmy Singh, Startup Success Manager, Microsoft Graham Brown, Host / Founder, Asia Tech Podcast

Sorry for my stumbling in this one, I distracted myself and went to the wrong place for the web applications / online services anyways if you've joined the Microsoft Partner Network but have had trouble finding your software downloads and license keys hopefully this helps. https://www.microsoft.com/msppdd/Home/Index

Sorry for my stumbling in this one, I distracted myself and went to the wrong place for the web applications / online services anyways if you've joined the Microsoft Partner Network but have had trouble finding your software downloads and license keys hopefully this helps. https://www.microsoft.com/msppdd/Home/Index

Toby Richards, General Manager Worldwide Partner Programs In this episode we peel back on the Worldwide Partner Transformation going on at Microsoft and the One Commercial Partner or OCP organization that is driving much of it with Toby Richards, the General Manager of Partner Programs at Microsoft. Toby and his team are responsible for partner programs worldwide at Microsoft including the Microsoft Partner Network program, the CSP - Cloud Solution Provider partner experience, community engagement and the Microsoft Inspire partner conference. In our discussion we focus on how his team is supporting and leading this worldwide partner transformation, what programs are getting the most attention and what has changed. Toby has spent over 25 years in the technology industry, holding several leadership roles within Microsoft including Customer & Partner Experience, and most recently, Partner Support within the company’s WW Services organization. In our discussion we also discuss his career journey. In this episode you will learn: What programs are getting the most of his attention during the worldwide partner transformation. How he is thinking about the startup community and early stage partners with IP. The new Microsoft Partner Community Portal and plans to expand the content to drive greater collaboration. His experience in the Customer and Partner Experience Organization and how he has applied his perspective on the change and transformation with an emphasis on customer success. The Modern Partner Series and its four attributes: 1. Differentiate to Stand Out, 2. Optimize your Operations, 3. Modernizing Sales and Marketing and 4. Focus on Customer Lifetime Value. The greatest challenges he sees with partners transforming and making the shift to the new model. Why it’s important to follow the incentives. What he believes makes a great partner The IDC Study on Partner Profitability. His professional journey and why the voice of customer always wins.   You can listen to the podcast here. As with each of my interview and articles, I appreciate your feedback. You can reach me on Linked In or on email at vincem@cloudwavepartners.net. You can also review this podcast by going to iTunes and searching “Ultimate Guide to Partnering” and clicking on the album art and hitting the ratings link. This helps others find the podcast. I hope you enjoy this episode! Vince Menzione

In the Microsoft Partner Network podcast, we speak with industry leaders and partners about the big ideas shaping business and technology today. In today’s episode, we hear from the co-founders of EventBase, Jeff Sinclair and Ben West, about their cutting ede app platform for Tier 1 conferences and events including Microsoft Inspire. They share the challenges they faced by launching their new bot Abby at SXSW and their goals for providing a more personal event experience.

There are so many reasons to attend the Worldwide Partner Conference, and your WPC Experience Ambassador, Dean Martin, details some of the biggest and best in our first Microsoft Partner Network podcast. Hear his conversation with Shantel Gascoigne, Content Strategy Lead for MPN, and partner Lori Borg, CEO of Northwest Cadence and 10-time attendee! Then be sure to register to join us at WPC 2016 in Toronto!

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In part 7 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas give us a quick introduction to some of the new File Explorer (formerly “Windows Explorer”) features and capabilities.[2:01] Demo: Quick Access Toolbar [7:38] Demo: Advanced Menu Options [13:40] Demo: Show all folders [16:41] Demo: Open New File Types There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 7 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas give us a quick introduction to some of the new File Explorer (formerly “Windows Explorer”) features and capabilities.[2:01] Demo: Quick Access Toolbar [7:38] Demo: Advanced Menu Options [13:40] Demo: Show all folders [16:41] Demo: Open New File Types There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 7 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas give us a quick introduction to some of the new File Explorer (formerly “Windows Explorer”) features and capabilities.[2:01] Demo: Quick Access Toolbar [7:38] Demo: Advanced Menu Options [13:40] Demo: Show all folders [16:41] Demo: Open New File Types There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 6 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the new kinds of customization options found in Windows 8.[2:16] Demo: Start Screen background [6:33] Demo: Scheduled Maintenance [11:00] Demo: Power Options – Hibernate or Sleep There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 6 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the new kinds of customization options found in Windows 8.[2:16] Demo: Start Screen background [6:33] Demo: Scheduled Maintenance [11:00] Demo: Power Options – Hibernate or Sleep There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 6 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the new kinds of customization options found in Windows 8.[2:16] Demo: Start Screen background [6:33] Demo: Scheduled Maintenance [11:00] Demo: Power Options – Hibernate or Sleep There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 5 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas briefly introduce you to some of the new security-centric improvements in Windows 8.[2:04] Demo: Control Your App Privacy [6:12] Demo: SmartScreen [11:33] Demo: Automatic Updates [17:31] Demo: Turn on BitLocker There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 5 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas briefly introduce you to some of the new security-centric improvements in Windows 8.[2:04] Demo: Control Your App Privacy [6:12] Demo: SmartScreen [11:33] Demo: Automatic Updates [17:31] Demo: Turn on BitLocker There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 5 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas briefly introduce you to some of the new security-centric improvements in Windows 8.[2:04] Demo: Control Your App Privacy [6:12] Demo: SmartScreen [11:33] Demo: Automatic Updates [17:31] Demo: Turn on BitLocker There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 4 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the newer and useful features found in Windows 8.[3:05] Demo: Windows 8 File History [14:03] Demo: Virtual Machines and Hyper-V [22:52] Demo: Windows To Go [31:55] Demo: Storage Spaces There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 4 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the newer and useful features found in Windows 8.[3:05] Demo: Windows 8 File History [14:03] Demo: Virtual Machines and Hyper-V [22:52] Demo: Windows To Go [31:55] Demo: Storage Spaces There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 4 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the newer and useful features found in Windows 8.[3:05] Demo: Windows 8 File History [14:03] Demo: Virtual Machines and Hyper-V [22:52] Demo: Windows To Go [31:55] Demo: Storage Spaces There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Join the App Builder Program and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips and partner development frameworks. Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Jerry Nixon welcomes Niels Hilmar to the show as they discuss the Windows 8 app development opportunity that is open for anyone who has a great idea for an app. Tune in as they discuss the first-mover advantage, what free tools and resources are available as well as the upcoming App Builder Virtual Summit which tackles the “why” and “how” of designing and marketing apps for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. [0:52] How can developers capitalize on making apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone? [6:37] How can developers get started making apps? [10:09] How do I sign up for the App Builder Program? [10:28] What is the App Builder Virtual Summit? [11:41] Who should attend the Summit? Is it just for developers? [14:32] How do I sign up? How much does it cost? App Builder Virtual Summit, May 2nd There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Attend the Virtual Summit and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development frameworks, and even reviews from iOS and Android developers. Don’t miss this FREE online event, REGISTER today!______________Need Convincing? Tune in to the latest Microsoft DevRadio episode: “ How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps” Michael Palermo welcomes Kevin Ashley to the show as they discuss how Kevin has made over $100k on his Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they discuss some tips and tricks for how you can improve your app revenue like how to properly price your app and various monetization options that are available to you such as in-app purchase, pay-per download and advertising.Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Jerry Nixon welcomes Niels Hilmar to the show as they discuss the Windows 8 app development opportunity that is open for anyone who has a great idea for an app. Tune in as they discuss the first-mover advantage, what free tools and resources are available as well as the upcoming App Builder Virtual Summit which tackles the “why” and “how” of designing and marketing apps for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. [0:52] How can developers capitalize on making apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone? [6:37] How can developers get started making apps? [10:09] How do I sign up for the App Builder Program? [10:28] What is the App Builder Virtual Summit? [11:41] Who should attend the Summit? Is it just for developers? [14:32] How do I sign up? How much does it cost? App Builder Virtual Summit, May 2nd There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Attend the Virtual Summit and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development frameworks, and even reviews from iOS and Android developers. Don’t miss this FREE online event, REGISTER today!______________Need Convincing? Tune in to the latest Microsoft DevRadio episode: “ How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps” Michael Palermo welcomes Kevin Ashley to the show as they discuss how Kevin has made over $100k on his Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they discuss some tips and tricks for how you can improve your app revenue like how to properly price your app and various monetization options that are available to you such as in-app purchase, pay-per download and advertising.Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Jerry Nixon welcomes Niels Hilmar to the show as they discuss the Windows 8 app development opportunity that is open for anyone who has a great idea for an app. Tune in as they discuss the first-mover advantage, what free tools and resources are available as well as the upcoming App Builder Virtual Summit which tackles the “why” and “how” of designing and marketing apps for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. [0:52] How can developers capitalize on making apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone? [6:37] How can developers get started making apps? [10:09] How do I sign up for the App Builder Program? [10:28] What is the App Builder Virtual Summit? [11:41] Who should attend the Summit? Is it just for developers? [14:32] How do I sign up? How much does it cost? App Builder Virtual Summit, May 2nd There’s never been a better time to build for Windows! Attend the Virtual Summit and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development frameworks, and even reviews from iOS and Android developers. Don’t miss this FREE online event, REGISTER today!______________Need Convincing? Tune in to the latest Microsoft DevRadio episode: “ How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps” Michael Palermo welcomes Kevin Ashley to the show as they discuss how Kevin has made over $100k on his Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they discuss some tips and tricks for how you can improve your app revenue like how to properly price your app and various monetization options that are available to you such as in-app purchase, pay-per download and advertising.Resources:Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 3 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show us some improvements in Windows 8 that will help people be more productive.[1:35] Demo: Windows Key Shortcuts [14:27] Demo: Manage startup with Task Manager [20:11] Demo: Get more done with Task Scheduler Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 3 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show us some improvements in Windows 8 that will help people be more productive.[1:35] Demo: Windows Key Shortcuts [14:27] Demo: Manage startup with Task Manager [20:11] Demo: Get more done with Task Scheduler Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 3 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show us some improvements in Windows 8 that will help people be more productive.[1:35] Demo: Windows Key Shortcuts [14:27] Demo: Manage startup with Task Manager [20:11] Demo: Get more done with Task Scheduler Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 2 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas dive deeper into the new modern user interface for Windows 8.[2:32] Demo: Closing an App [4:54] Demo: Mastering IE in Win8 [10:11] Demo: Run two apps side by side [13:15] Demo: Make a large app tile smaller [15:16] Demo: Contextual Search Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8. Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 2 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas dive deeper into the new modern user interface for Windows 8.[2:32] Demo: Closing an App [4:54] Demo: Mastering IE in Win8 [10:11] Demo: Run two apps side by side [13:15] Demo: Make a large app tile smaller [15:16] Demo: Contextual Search Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8. Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In part 2 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas dive deeper into the new modern user interface for Windows 8.[2:32] Demo: Closing an App [4:54] Demo: Mastering IE in Win8 [10:11] Demo: Run two apps side by side [13:15] Demo: Make a large app tile smaller [15:16] Demo: Contextual Search Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8. Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas to the show as they kick off their 8 part Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series. Tune in for part 1 as they show us around the new modern user interface in Windows 8.[1:34] Demo: Basic Navigation, Sharing, Search [7:44] Demo: Group Apps on the Start Screen [10:04] Demo: Easy Access – Pin Apps to the Start Screen [17:48] Demo: Shutting Down Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas to the show as they kick off their 8 part Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series. Tune in for part 1 as they show us around the new modern user interface in Windows 8.[1:34] Demo: Basic Navigation, Sharing, Search [7:44] Demo: Group Apps on the Start Screen [10:04] Demo: Easy Access – Pin Apps to the Start Screen [17:48] Demo: Shutting Down Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas to the show as they kick off their 8 part Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series. Tune in for part 1 as they show us around the new modern user interface in Windows 8.[1:34] Demo: Basic Navigation, Sharing, Search [7:44] Demo: Group Apps on the Start Screen [10:04] Demo: Easy Access – Pin Apps to the Start Screen [17:48] Demo: Shutting Down Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Technical Specialist Susan Smith from the Windows Intune team as they discuss Intune’s cloud-based solution to manage PCs and mobile devices. Tune in as they discuss Intune’s capabilities and how it can help support your mobile workforce while still ensuring a better managed and secured IT environment. Try Windows Intune free for 30 Days. Sign up here![1:21] What is Windows Intune and what is it used for? [2:10] What kinds of devices can Intune manage and monitor? [5:22] What kind of infrastructure is needed to support Windows Intune? [8:12] What is the end-user experience as it relates to Windows 8 application deployment? [15:13] How does Windows InTune support the management, monitoring, or even application publishing to devices that are owned by the employee and not the company? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Technical Specialist Susan Smith from the Windows Intune team as they discuss Intune’s cloud-based solution to manage PCs and mobile devices. Tune in as they discuss Intune’s capabilities and how it can help support your mobile workforce while still ensuring a better managed and secured IT environment. Try Windows Intune free for 30 Days. Sign up here![1:21] What is Windows Intune and what is it used for? [2:10] What kinds of devices can Intune manage and monitor? [5:22] What kind of infrastructure is needed to support Windows Intune? [8:12] What is the end-user experience as it relates to Windows 8 application deployment? [15:13] How does Windows InTune support the management, monitoring, or even application publishing to devices that are owned by the employee and not the company? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Technical Specialist Susan Smith from the Windows Intune team as they discuss Intune’s cloud-based solution to manage PCs and mobile devices. Tune in as they discuss Intune’s capabilities and how it can help support your mobile workforce while still ensuring a better managed and secured IT environment. Try Windows Intune free for 30 Days. Sign up here![1:21] What is Windows Intune and what is it used for? [2:10] What kinds of devices can Intune manage and monitor? [5:22] What kind of infrastructure is needed to support Windows Intune? [8:12] What is the end-user experience as it relates to Windows 8 application deployment? [15:13] How does Windows InTune support the management, monitoring, or even application publishing to devices that are owned by the employee and not the company? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager Michael Niehaus are back for Part 2 of their Deploying Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they dive deeper into some of the more advanced tools to support more complex Windows 8 deployment scenarios.[2:28] What are some of the more advanced deployment tools that are available from Microsoft? [8:04] How much does the ADK, MDT and WDS deployment tools cost? [8:50] How can System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager help with Windows 8 deployments? [11:40] What is a “Light Touch Installation?” [16:22] What kind of infrastructure needs to be in place to support System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager Michael Niehaus are back for Part 2 of their Deploying Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they dive deeper into some of the more advanced tools to support more complex Windows 8 deployment scenarios.[2:28] What are some of the more advanced deployment tools that are available from Microsoft? [8:04] How much does the ADK, MDT and WDS deployment tools cost? [8:50] How can System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager help with Windows 8 deployments? [11:40] What is a “Light Touch Installation?” [16:22] What kind of infrastructure needs to be in place to support System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager Michael Niehaus are back for Part 2 of their Deploying Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they dive deeper into some of the more advanced tools to support more complex Windows 8 deployment scenarios.[2:28] What are some of the more advanced deployment tools that are available from Microsoft? [8:04] How much does the ADK, MDT and WDS deployment tools cost? [8:50] How can System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager help with Windows 8 deployments? [11:40] What is a “Light Touch Installation?” [16:22] What kind of infrastructure needs to be in place to support System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Product Manager Michael Niehaus to the show as they discuss the tools, technologies, tips and tricks that are available to enable the efficient deployment of Windows 8 onto new or existing hardware. Tune in for part 1 of their discussion as they give us an overview of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ADK, WDS and System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager.[2:51] What are some of the issues that companies are facing when considering how to deploy a new operating system? [4:44] What are some of the tools that are available to deploy Windows 8? [6:46] What is the ADK and what tools come with it? [9:21] What is the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)? [14:00] What does the end-user experience look like? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Product Manager Michael Niehaus to the show as they discuss the tools, technologies, tips and tricks that are available to enable the efficient deployment of Windows 8 onto new or existing hardware. Tune in for part 1 of their discussion as they give us an overview of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ADK, WDS and System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager.[2:51] What are some of the issues that companies are facing when considering how to deploy a new operating system? [4:44] What are some of the tools that are available to deploy Windows 8? [6:46] What is the ADK and what tools come with it? [9:21] What is the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)? [14:00] What does the end-user experience look like? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Product Manager Michael Niehaus to the show as they discuss the tools, technologies, tips and tricks that are available to enable the efficient deployment of Windows 8 onto new or existing hardware. Tune in for part 1 of their discussion as they give us an overview of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ADK, WDS and System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager.[2:51] What are some of the issues that companies are facing when considering how to deploy a new operating system? [4:44] What are some of the tools that are available to deploy Windows 8? [6:46] What is the ADK and what tools come with it? [9:21] What is the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)? [14:00] What does the end-user experience look like? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes back Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth for Part 2 of their System Center 2012 SP1 for Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they discuss device support improvements made in Configuration Manager as well as improvements to support user mobility.[1:58] What has improved in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to support new devices running Windows 8? [3:38] Can Configuration Manager manage non-Windows based devices as well? [4:25] How does System Center 2012 better support the mobile user? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes back Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth for Part 2 of their System Center 2012 SP1 for Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they discuss device support improvements made in Configuration Manager as well as improvements to support user mobility.[1:58] What has improved in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to support new devices running Windows 8? [3:38] Can Configuration Manager manage non-Windows based devices as well? [4:25] How does System Center 2012 better support the mobile user? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Kevin Remde welcomes back Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth for Part 2 of their System Center 2012 SP1 for Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they discuss device support improvements made in Configuration Manager as well as improvements to support user mobility.[1:58] What has improved in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to support new devices running Windows 8? [3:38] Can Configuration Manager manage non-Windows based devices as well? [4:25] How does System Center 2012 better support the mobile user? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth to the show as they discuss enterprise management and how System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help deploy, work with, manage and secure Windows 8. In Part 1 of their discussion Kevin and Martin chat about the latest improvements made to System Center 2012 and how it relates to Windows 8.[2:11] What is System Center Configuration Manager and what can it do for business IT? [3:00] Why is SP1 important for System Center 2012 and ultimately Windows 8? [3:55] Can Configuration Manager handle Windows 8 application deployment? [5:28] How does Endpoint Protection work for Windows 8? [7:40] What are my options for deploying and managing Windows 8 with Configuration Manager 2007? [9:13] What are some of the new features in Windows 8, that System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help with? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth to the show as they discuss enterprise management and how System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help deploy, work with, manage and secure Windows 8. In Part 1 of their discussion Kevin and Martin chat about the latest improvements made to System Center 2012 and how it relates to Windows 8.[2:11] What is System Center Configuration Manager and what can it do for business IT? [3:00] Why is SP1 important for System Center 2012 and ultimately Windows 8? [3:55] Can Configuration Manager handle Windows 8 application deployment? [5:28] How does Endpoint Protection work for Windows 8? [7:40] What are my options for deploying and managing Windows 8 with Configuration Manager 2007? [9:13] What are some of the new features in Windows 8, that System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help with? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth to the show as they discuss enterprise management and how System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help deploy, work with, manage and secure Windows 8. In Part 1 of their discussion Kevin and Martin chat about the latest improvements made to System Center 2012 and how it relates to Windows 8.[2:11] What is System Center Configuration Manager and what can it do for business IT? [3:00] Why is SP1 important for System Center 2012 and ultimately Windows 8? [3:55] Can Configuration Manager handle Windows 8 application deployment? [5:28] How does Endpoint Protection work for Windows 8? [7:40] What are my options for deploying and managing Windows 8 with Configuration Manager 2007? [9:13] What are some of the new features in Windows 8, that System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help with? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Microsoft MVP, Mitch Garvis to the show as they discuss how Windows 8 now includes Microsoft Hyper-V. Tune in as they discuss WHY you would want to use the power of Hyper-V virtualization on your desktop, laptop or tablet running Windows 8 Enterprise. [2:30] What is Hyper-V and what is it used for? [3:40] Why would anyone need that kind of power on their desktop? [5:10] What are some of the capabilities of Hyper-V running on Windows 8? [8:57] How do users interact with VMs? [12:04] Are there any special requirements for running Hyper-V on a Windows 8 machine? [16:41] How do users get started? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Microsoft MVP, Mitch Garvis to the show as they discuss how Windows 8 now includes Microsoft Hyper-V. Tune in as they discuss WHY you would want to use the power of Hyper-V virtualization on your desktop, laptop or tablet running Windows 8 Enterprise. [2:30] What is Hyper-V and what is it used for? [3:40] Why would anyone need that kind of power on their desktop? [5:10] What are some of the capabilities of Hyper-V running on Windows 8? [8:57] How do users interact with VMs? [12:04] Are there any special requirements for running Hyper-V on a Windows 8 machine? [16:41] How do users get started? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Microsoft MVP, Mitch Garvis to the show as they discuss how Windows 8 now includes Microsoft Hyper-V. Tune in as they discuss WHY you would want to use the power of Hyper-V virtualization on your desktop, laptop or tablet running Windows 8 Enterprise. [2:30] What is Hyper-V and what is it used for? [3:40] Why would anyone need that kind of power on their desktop? [5:10] What are some of the capabilities of Hyper-V running on Windows 8? [8:57] How do users interact with VMs? [12:04] Are there any special requirements for running Hyper-V on a Windows 8 machine? [16:41] How do users get started? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose discuss a number of new security enhancements and features such as Bitlocker and BiitLocker-to-Go, MBAM, Secure Boot and File History found in Windows 8.[2:22] How are Windows 8 based devices protected against malware? [8:20] How has Bitlocker been improved in Windows 8? [14:11] What happens when my hard drive crashes or if I delete some important files? What new options do I have in Windows 8 to save my data? [19:34] What about Network Security? [22:43] Is Active Directory and Group Policy still available in Windows 8? [25:34] What about Applications? How do I ensure these are secure? [31:04] Is Windows-to-Go secure? What happens to my data if l lose my USB stick? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose discuss a number of new security enhancements and features such as Bitlocker and BiitLocker-to-Go, MBAM, Secure Boot and File History found in Windows 8.[2:22] How are Windows 8 based devices protected against malware? [8:20] How has Bitlocker been improved in Windows 8? [14:11] What happens when my hard drive crashes or if I delete some important files? What new options do I have in Windows 8 to save my data? [19:34] What about Network Security? [22:43] Is Active Directory and Group Policy still available in Windows 8? [25:34] What about Applications? How do I ensure these are secure? [31:04] Is Windows-to-Go secure? What happens to my data if l lose my USB stick? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose discuss a number of new security enhancements and features such as Bitlocker and BiitLocker-to-Go, MBAM, Secure Boot and File History found in Windows 8.[2:22] How are Windows 8 based devices protected against malware? [8:20] How has Bitlocker been improved in Windows 8? [14:11] What happens when my hard drive crashes or if I delete some important files? What new options do I have in Windows 8 to save my data? [19:34] What about Network Security? [22:43] Is Active Directory and Group Policy still available in Windows 8? [25:34] What about Applications? How do I ensure these are secure? [31:04] Is Windows-to-Go secure? What happens to my data if l lose my USB stick? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose discuss a number of new and very beneficial capabilities in Windows 8 that provide amazing productivity while we’re mobile.Microsoft knows, because you’ve told us, that giving your workforce the ability to be productive from anywhere – truly productive mobility – is high on your list of priorities. Today’s show will try to help provide insight into the importance of a well managed mobile platform as well as describe some of the capabilities found within Windows 8, such as DirectAccess, Mobile Broadband, BrancheCache and Windows to Go that can help empower your business and workforce.[2:15] Why is a well managed mobile platform so important for IT and businesses? [4:22] Which features in a Windows 8 device can help? [10:42] What is Windows to Go? [15:02] What are some scenarios that might make Windows to Go useful for businesses? [19:06] Why not just copy Windows 8 onto a USB stick? Isn’t that the same thing?!? [20:19] In this BYOD using Windows 8 scenario, how can users access their files or company data? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose discuss a number of new and very beneficial capabilities in Windows 8 that provide amazing productivity while we’re mobile.Microsoft knows, because you’ve told us, that giving your workforce the ability to be productive from anywhere – truly productive mobility – is high on your list of priorities. Today’s show will try to help provide insight into the importance of a well managed mobile platform as well as describe some of the capabilities found within Windows 8, such as DirectAccess, Mobile Broadband, BrancheCache and Windows to Go that can help empower your business and workforce.[2:15] Why is a well managed mobile platform so important for IT and businesses? [4:22] Which features in a Windows 8 device can help? [10:42] What is Windows to Go? [15:02] What are some scenarios that might make Windows to Go useful for businesses? [19:06] Why not just copy Windows 8 onto a USB stick? Isn’t that the same thing?!? [20:19] In this BYOD using Windows 8 scenario, how can users access their files or company data? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose discuss a number of new and very beneficial capabilities in Windows 8 that provide amazing productivity while we’re mobile.Microsoft knows, because you’ve told us, that giving your workforce the ability to be productive from anywhere – truly productive mobility – is high on your list of priorities. Today’s show will try to help provide insight into the importance of a well managed mobile platform as well as describe some of the capabilities found within Windows 8, such as DirectAccess, Mobile Broadband, BrancheCache and Windows to Go that can help empower your business and workforce.[2:15] Why is a well managed mobile platform so important for IT and businesses? [4:22] Which features in a Windows 8 device can help? [10:42] What is Windows to Go? [15:02] What are some scenarios that might make Windows to Go useful for businesses? [19:06] Why not just copy Windows 8 onto a USB stick? Isn’t that the same thing?!? [20:19] In this BYOD using Windows 8 scenario, how can users access their files or company data? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

As the general public is just now getting to experience Windows 8, many businesses are wondering if this operating system is really worth replacing Windows 7 with. In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose hope to help answer that question as well as dispel some common myths that you may have concerning Windows 8 and the new kinds of devices and form factors it is available on.[2:27] New User Interface Concerns [5:15] What about the Start button? [8:45] Will my Windows 7 applications work on Windows 8? [11:24] Surface / Windows RT and Surface Pro --- what’s the difference? [17:26] Why is a Windows 8 tablet a better choice for businesses than an iPad or Android-based tablet? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

As the general public is just now getting to experience Windows 8, many businesses are wondering if this operating system is really worth replacing Windows 7 with. In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose hope to help answer that question as well as dispel some common myths that you may have concerning Windows 8 and the new kinds of devices and form factors it is available on.[2:27] New User Interface Concerns [5:15] What about the Start button? [8:45] Will my Windows 7 applications work on Windows 8? [11:24] Surface / Windows RT and Surface Pro --- what’s the difference? [17:26] Why is a Windows 8 tablet a better choice for businesses than an iPad or Android-based tablet? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

As the general public is just now getting to experience Windows 8, many businesses are wondering if this operating system is really worth replacing Windows 7 with. In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde and Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose hope to help answer that question as well as dispel some common myths that you may have concerning Windows 8 and the new kinds of devices and form factors it is available on.[2:27] New User Interface Concerns [5:15] What about the Start button? [8:45] Will my Windows 7 applications work on Windows 8? [11:24] Surface / Windows RT and Surface Pro --- what’s the difference? [17:26] Why is a Windows 8 tablet a better choice for businesses than an iPad or Android-based tablet? Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Windows 8 is ready for business - delivering the power and familiarity you want, along with new ways for people to interact with line of business apps, and support for more mobile devices.Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde interviews Sr. Marketing Manager for the Windows Commercial Team, Hye Jun, as they discuss how Windows 8 benefits businesses by helping your workforce increase its productivity. Tune in as they talk about how Windows 8 delivers the perfect blend of devices and experiences people love and the Enterprise grade solutions businesses need.Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Windows 8 is ready for business - delivering the power and familiarity you want, along with new ways for people to interact with line of business apps, and support for more mobile devices.Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde interviews Sr. Marketing Manager for the Windows Commercial Team, Hye Jun, as they discuss how Windows 8 benefits businesses by helping your workforce increase its productivity. Tune in as they talk about how Windows 8 delivers the perfect blend of devices and experiences people love and the Enterprise grade solutions businesses need.Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Windows 8 is ready for business - delivering the power and familiarity you want, along with new ways for people to interact with line of business apps, and support for more mobile devices.Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde interviews Sr. Marketing Manager for the Windows Commercial Team, Hye Jun, as they discuss how Windows 8 benefits businesses by helping your workforce increase its productivity. Tune in as they talk about how Windows 8 delivers the perfect blend of devices and experiences people love and the Enterprise grade solutions businesses need.Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing The Springboard Series Blog Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today's world of mobile workplaces and ubiquitous connection, the workplace is no longer defined by the confines of an office or the limits of an eight hour workday. The challenge for today's business owners and IT managers is figuring out how to provide the flexible access to corporate resources that users need without sacrificing security, data integrity, or performance. Over the next few months, this series will hope to provide you with step-by-step scenarios that will enable you to efficiently plan for and deploy Windows 8 in your Enterprise. Windows 8 is ready for business - delivering the power and familiarity you want, along with new ways for people to interact with line of business apps, and support for more mobile devices.Tune in for episode one of our series as we invite Jane Boulware, General Manager of the US Windows Client team as she discusses with us the unique value Windows 8 offers to businesses.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today's world of mobile workplaces and ubiquitous connection, the workplace is no longer defined by the confines of an office or the limits of an eight hour workday. The challenge for today's business owners and IT managers is figuring out how to provide the flexible access to corporate resources that users need without sacrificing security, data integrity, or performance. Over the next few months, this series will hope to provide you with step-by-step scenarios that will enable you to efficiently plan for and deploy Windows 8 in your Enterprise. Windows 8 is ready for business - delivering the power and familiarity you want, along with new ways for people to interact with line of business apps, and support for more mobile devices.Tune in for episode one of our series as we invite Jane Boulware, General Manager of the US Windows Client team as she discusses with us the unique value Windows 8 offers to businesses.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

In today's world of mobile workplaces and ubiquitous connection, the workplace is no longer defined by the confines of an office or the limits of an eight hour workday. The challenge for today's business owners and IT managers is figuring out how to provide the flexible access to corporate resources that users need without sacrificing security, data integrity, or performance. Over the next few months, this series will hope to provide you with step-by-step scenarios that will enable you to efficiently plan for and deploy Windows 8 in your Enterprise. Windows 8 is ready for business - delivering the power and familiarity you want, along with new ways for people to interact with line of business apps, and support for more mobile devices.Tune in for episode one of our series as we invite Jane Boulware, General Manager of the US Windows Client team as she discusses with us the unique value Windows 8 offers to businesses.Resources:Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Licensing Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

This first episode looks at the consumerisation of IT, also known as the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept. This is followed up by an interview with Microsoft VP Jon Roskill discussing the Microsoft Partner Network's first year. In closing we review recently released market share figures for the PC and mobile phone markets. Running time: 46:17