10 July 2007

Open Season on the Channel

Microsoft's World Wide Partner Conference is going on in Denver. Mary Jo Foley and others have coverage. The first story that caught my eye dovetailed with the Microsoft Watch article I wrote about before.
Microsoft is moving heavily into hosted services. This is more of a threat to the CRM folks but who knows what's next.
From Mary Jo:
Microsoft’s message: Partners need to change. (The unwritten part: Or get the heck out of the way.)
[For those of you keeping score at home, WWPC has 12,000 attendees making it #2 among MS conferences. Convergence (the MBS customer conference that includes Dynamics GP) is currently #3 with 10,000 attendees expected in March of 2008. Tech Ed with 13,000 attendees is #1]