My first week at Microsoft

My first week at Microsoft

“How is Microsoft?” “It must be amazing!” “What are you working on?” This is how the conversation goes with anyone who knows of my July 16 start date as a Microsoft employee. If you missed my announcement (because I recorded a video instead of blogging about it), I’ve joined the Cloud Developer Advocates who report through to…

Microsoft 365 Business – not a rebrand or a marketing wrapper

Microsoft 365 Business – not a rebrand or a marketing wrapper

After the announcement of Microsoft 365, I’d pushed it into the “look at this later” pile. A recent Microsoft presentation at a reseller event flicked the switch for me on how Microsoft 365 Business could really help SMBs who are still stuck on Windows 7 or Windows 8, and how the device management can help with Macs, Android…

The problem with Partners

As a ‘partner’ in the ‘channel’ (just imagine the air quotes), I’m going to stand on my soapbox and have a little chat about the role that we play in making software & hardware companies successful. Yeah, that totally sounded conceited, but follow along with me here. There are so many facets to this chat that…