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Software maharāj of the world, Microsoft, has expanded its suite of ‘Defender’ products for channel players and customers.

Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, compliance, identity, and management, highlighted in the post that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2021 IC3 report found that the cost of cybercrime now totals more than $6.9 billion. Read more…

Software King of the World, Microsoft, has given up on a policy that encouraged partners to move legacy subscriptions under its Cloud Solution Provider programme to the controversial “new commerce experience” by January.

Redmond announced an indefinite delay to the end date for legacy subscriptions moving to new commerce experience (NCE), crediting more migrations and giving partners more time to adopt the change. Read more…

Software king of the world Microsoft says it has soaked up more than half of the managed service provider (MSP), reseller and services market.

This week’s partner-focused Microsoft Inspire event was shown Vole’s Microsoft’s Landscape and Attitudes study — a collaboration with Analysys Mason — released at the conference was based on an in-depth look at 3,000 small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in 10 countries.

This study discusses key findings in the SMB segment, their significance for the Microsoft partner community, and how Microsoft can help SMBs thrive in this modern, digitally enabled economy. It is a study, with a number of insights into SMBs representing all types of markets: mature, middle, and developing. Read more…

Software King of the World Microsoft has cut jobs in its Azure, security and other business segments.

In a statement, a Microsoft spokesvole said the company still expects to grow its overall headcount as it aligns resources.

“As Microsoft gets ready for the new fiscal year, it is making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity. Microsoft will continue to grow headcount in the year ahead, and we will add additional focus to where those resources go”, the Volester said.

Despite the cuts, multiple Microsoft executives during the event highlighted opportunities for partners to sell customers on the tech giant’s cloud and security offerings, telling partners that the company will make a push this year for packages of cloud products focused on specific industries – such as health care and financial services. Read more…

Microsoft has promised to change its licensing practices and overall principles to “level the playing field” for local cloud providers in a bid to see off European anti-trust watchdogs.

Brad Smith, Microsoft president, outlined the changes after the Financial Times pointed to the potential for new antitrust action against the company in Europe. Critics said the company was tying Windows and Office to Azure to fuel its cloud growth.

The changes include the ability for European cloud providers to offer Windows and Office on a hosted basis as part of their own solutions, independent of Microsoft’s cloud platform. Read more…

Microsoft’s channel boss Rodney Clark has quit his job of 24 years and is headed for greener pastures.

Clark has worked for Vole for 24 years and took up the role of corporate vice president of global channel sales and channel chief last year.

He is leaving the company to take up a new role as an executive officer at a publicly-traded company that partners with Microsoft.

According to a blog post written by Nick Parker, Microsoft corporate vice president of global partner solutions, the company expects to have a new leader in place by the beginning of its new fiscal year in July. Read more…

Software King of the World, Microsoft, is boosting its managed security range by adding three services aimed at operation centres and enterprises.

As part of Microsoft Security Experts the services are called Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting and Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise.

Microsoft corporate vice president of security compliance, identity and management Vasu Jakkal said the new services were designed with “input from our incredible partner ecosystem”.

“It’s getting harder every day for organisations to build and maintain a full security team, let alone one with the ever-expanding skillset required to meet the range of today’s security demands. With input from our incredible partner ecosystem, we’ve designed three new managed services that can help you scale your team of experts to fit your needs—without the challenges of hiring and training them.” Read more…

Microsoft is planning to release a new tool to automate the patch management process, all but eliminating Patch Tuesdays for many companies.

Windows Autopatch will keep business computers continuously updated as part of a new feature included with the Windows Enterprise E3 subscription service.

Organisations running systems with a Windows 10 or Windows 11 Enterprise E3 license will be eligible for the new patch service, which is expected to be generally available in July.

Lior Bela, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. “This service will keep Windows and Office software on enrolled endpoints up-to-date automatically, at no additional cost. IT admins can gain time and resources to drive value. The second Tuesday of every month will be just another Tuesday.” Read more…