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Software King of the World Microsoft has written a cheque for the cloudy start-up Movere in a bid to boost its cloud migration capabilities.

For those who came in late,  Movere is a software-as-a-service platform vendor that was founded in 2008. It is supposed to provide discovery and assessment services to make cloud migrations easier.

Writing in his bog , Microsoft’s Azure Management partner director, Jeremy Winter, said that the deal highlighted the firm’s commitment to Azure.

“We’re committed to providing our customers with a comprehensive experience for migrating existing applications and infrastructure to Azure, which include the right tools, processes, and programmes. As part of that ongoing investment, we’re excited to welcome the leadership, talent, technology, and deep expertise Movere has built-in enabling customers’ journey to the cloud over the last 11 years,” he said.

The deal marks Microsoft’s 11th acquisition of 2019 so far, with its last M&A move coming last month for jClarity – a Java performance tuning tool.

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella told the assembled throngs at the firm’s Inspire partner event that trust has to be earned.

“You can’t claim trust, you have to earn it every day” was a comment that drew a loud round of applause from the partner audience. The comments were part of a chat about  how partners should work with customers. However it is not much a leap to see that it is connected to Microsoft’s decision to reverse proposed changes around internal use rights policies to protect its relationships with resellers. Read more…

Microsoft’s global partner boss Gavriella Schuster told the assembled throngs at Vole’s Inspire event in Las Vegas that the Cloud has changed the way it had relationships with the Channel.

Schuster said that traditional reselling did not stimulate the levels of trust between the vendor and partners that cloud services managed to capture.

“Let’s face it; our traditional way of partnering was built much more around a supply chain. Microsoft would build some software. A partner might resell it, a partner might integrate it, manage it, deploy it, support it, and it was a series of hand-offs. There wasn’t as much trust inspired in those hand-offs”, she said. Read more…

Software King of the World Microsoft has backed down over its changes to its internal use rights policy after its channel partners revolted.

Microsoft had thought it was a wizard wheeze to suggest that from 1 July next year licences would not cover everyday use but could still be used by partners for demos, solution and services development and internal training purposes.

It said that it cost too much to provide the service, but suddenly Vole discovered that it had right royally hacked off the partners. Read more…

Software King of the World Microsoft has opened its first European store in London.

The 22,000 square feet, the three-floor store is located in Oxford Circus is within spitting distance of Apple’s Regent Street flagship.

Microsoft UK CEO Cindy Rose billed the outlet as “more than just a shopping experience”, stressing that it will teach kids to code, train educators on how to use tech in the classroom and showcase digital transformation to small businesses and large enterprises. Read more…

Microsoft has announced that its flagship Microsoft Store in London will open to the general public on 11 July, 2019.

The first physical retail store for Microsoft in the UK will be located on Oxford Circus and covers 21,932 square feet over three floors. Read more…

Software king of the world Microsoft has launched nine higher education courses with three UK universities.

The nine courses are Data Analysis, Data Science, Big Data, Cybersecurity, DevOps, IT Support, Internet of Things, AI and Entry-Level Software Development. Read more…