Microsoft wants thousands of new distributors to sell Surface products
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-wants-thousands-of-new-distributors-to-sell-surface-products
Microsoft’s Surface tablets have had a mixed reception over the last few years, though its latest model, the Surface Pro 3 has gotten pretty great reviews across the board. Unfortunately, both the tablet and its accessories can be hard to purchase due to limited distribution.
But Microsoft has just announced that it’s fixing that by allowing thousands of new resellers and partners to distribute the Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3, as well other upcoming devices – good news for those waiting on the Surface Pro 4.
According to the company, the number of Surface distributors will get a significant bump going from “a couple hundred” to “a few thousands” authorized resellers.
Surface Announces New Plans to Expand Business Channel
http://blog.surface.com/2015/07/surface-channel-expansion/
Businesses are rapidly adopting Surface Pro 3 and we’re seeing great interest and momentum with Surface 3 and Surface Hub. We see this recognition of the unique combination of productivity and style across industries including healthcare businesses, banks and financial companies, retailers, airlines, manufacturers, schools, governments and more. Windows 10 will only increase this momentum.
We’ve had a somewhat limited business channel for Surface and we’ve heard from a lot of customers that they’d like to see more partners offering Surface. So we’re taking our next big step to serving our business customers.
Surface Channel Expansion
We are expanding our channel and will go from having a few hundred partners selling and servicing Surface to a few thousand globally in the coming months.
So if you’re a reseller or systems integrator with strong hardware capabilities, we’re looking forward to welcoming you and we’re excited to see how Surface’s presence in the commercial space will continue to grow – with your help.
Interested partners should go to the Microsoft Partner Network Device Partner Portal and contact an Authorized Device Distributor to learn how to become a partner.
This expansion of our partnerships is directly related to our optimism for much broader success that will come with the release of Windows 10.