# Open Season on the Channel

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/open-season-on-the-channel/
- Date: 2007-07-10
- Topics: Microsoft & the GP Ecosystem
- Type: link to an external article
- Source: http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2007/07/microsoft-watch-takes-on-channel.html

Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference is going on in Denver. Mary Jo Foley and others have coverage. The first story that caught my eye dovetailed with the [Microsoft Watch article](http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2007/07/microsoft-watch-takes-on-channel.html) I wrote about before.  
Microsoft is moving heavily into hosted services. This is more of a threat to the CRM folks but who knows what’s next.  
From Mary Jo:  
*Microsoft’s message: Partners need to change. (The unwritten part: Or get the heck out of the way.)*  
*[For those of you keeping score at home, WWPC has 12,000 attendees making it #2 among MS conferences. Convergence (the MBS customer conference that includes Dynamics GP) is currently #3 with 10,000 attendees expected in March of 2008. Tech Ed with 13,000 attendees is #1]*