People-readying the channel

eWeek | at | by Mike

Microsoft is positioning itself in rhetoric and action to make a major sales push of new products to release in 2006 and 2007, according to company executives and partners.

On June 29, the Redmond, Wash., software company announced a reorganization of its MBS and SMS&P units, bringing the latter, where the partner organization resides, into alignment with the field sales organization and under the control of new Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, formerly of Wal-Mart.