CRN Q&A: Janet Gibbons, Microsoft

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Find out about the Microsoft Small Business Competency and how the vendor says it is not pushing partners towards the cloud

Janet Gibbons, director of partner strategy and programmes at Microsoft joins CRN editor Sara Yirrell for a chat about the vendor's Small Business competency, and also a frank discussion about some of the concerns partners have about Microsoft's cloud strategy.

In this video, which has been commissioned by Microsoft, Gibbons also gives some hints as to how resellers can encourage reluctant SMB customers to spend money in these tough economic times.

 

 

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