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Microsoft’s president Brad Smith warned that the software king of the world would stop having “deep partnerships” with companies with no interest in becoming more sustainable.

Smith talked at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, of which Vole is a principal partner.

The vendor used the conference to reiterate its target of becoming carbon negative by 2030 and removing all the carbon the company emitted from the environment since its founding by 2050. Read more…

Resellers are mightily miffed over Vole’s proposed 20 percent fee on monthly Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

An online petition against Microsoft’s cunning plan has attracted almost 1,000 signatures even if Vole has yet to announce the fee.

Microsoft hinted in its New Commerce Experience operating guide that flexible subscriptions will be available on monthly terms “at a premium price”.

Resellers believe that “premium price” means a 20 percent fee, and they will have to take on financial responsibility for customers if they can no longer pay for the rest of their licence agreements due to insolvency or another reason. Read more…

Software princeling of the world, Microsoft, has managed to get its channel partners hot under the collar over changes to its billing which will see them made responsible for their customer’s debts.

Vole has decided, in its ineffable wisdom, to suggest that its partners should take on financial responsibility if their customer becomes unable to pay for their O365 licence, after all, someone must and it is certainly not going to be Microsoft.

The idea is part of something dubbed a New Commerce Experience (NCE) which includes a number of changes for its “partners”. Under the new agreement, partners claim that they would have to take on the financial risk of paying the rest of a subscription if a customer was no longer able to due to insolvency or another reason.

If a company takes out a three-year Office 365 on CSP and they go bust in year two, then the reseller still has to pay the remaining two years. If it’s a big licensing agreement and they go bust, they still have to pay Microsoft the remainder of that contract. Read more…

ServiceNow has expanded its partnership with Microsoft teams to cash in on remote working trends.

As part of ServiceNow’s Now Platform Rome release, the company is introducing a new collaborative app for its Employee Centre that integrates with Microsoft Teams and offers streamlined employee experiences in the hybrid work environment. In addition, the companies announced expanded investments in co-innovation and go to market efforts across ServiceNow workflows and Teams. Read more…

Software King of the World Microsoft has decided that thanks to the pandemic enough people are hooked on its Office 365 product so it is time to hack the price up.

Like any good pusher, Vole had released Office 365 free access to software for certain periods and a chance to delay payments and then had a record number of sign-ups due to Covid.

Microsoft has given its channel and customers plenty of notice of price changes, with increases coming into effect from 1 March 2022.

In a blog post, Jared Spataro, corporate vice-president for Microsoft 365, explained the rationale for the increases and pointed out that the vendor had resisted making a move for quite a while. Read more…

Microsoft Inspire 2021, Vole’s partner conference, presented a virtual keynote focusing on the added strength and innovation – yes it’s that word again – of the partner’s egosystem and its commitment to equipping them with the most powerful technologies, tools, and solutions.

Inspire highlighted a list of upcoming benefits for partners, such as Deschutes taking the operating system to the Microsoft Cloud. This will let people stream their applications, tools, data and settings from the cloud to any device.

All Microsoft Teams customers will receive access to Dynamics 365 data in Teams at no extra cost. This implementation will break down barriers to productivity for customers and the “silos” between collaboration and business processes. The cooperation carries on to Microsoft Viva, an integrated employee experience combining communications, learning, “wellbeing”, and knowledge within the flow of work. Read more…

Software King of the World, Microsoft, has slashed its marketplace transaction fee from 20 percent to three percent in a bid to help partners get to market faster and build apps for every customer need.

Announcing the cunning plan at this year’s Microsoft Inspire, Vole said it wants to demonstrate its commitment to the success of its partners on its platform and help them keep more of their margin to invest in their growth. The reduction in the fee applies to every transactable application published in the commercial marketplace, including its digital storefronts, Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource.

Microsoft Cloud and AI chief operating officer Charlotte Yarkoni said this reduced transaction fee demonstrates its commitment to the success of partners creating value on its platform—and helps partners keep more of their margin to invest in their growth. Read more…