Microsoft to encourage partners to enter cloud computing

To encourage partners to sell their cloud products, Microsoft pledged in Wednesday to provide 5http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19203.html ">8 billion-dollar incentive funds to help train members of its partner network, Adapt them to new products and services and encourage them to sell these products and services to consumers.

Microsoft's Cloud Office suite Office 365 is an important part of the Exchange platform and Outlook desktop software, but they are now facing competition from products such as Google Apps. Microsoft can train its partners in this newly created messaging and communications area, enabling them to learn how to deploy Office 365 software and online conferencing software Lync.

In August this year, Microsoft said it would provide new services for software security (Software Assurance) and plans to fund partners to help consumers use Microsoft's private cloud services and azure public cloud services.

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