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Microsoft financing program expands at WPC 2009

Microsoft financing program expands at WPC 2009

Microsoft financing program expands at WPC 2009

Date: Jul 14, 2009

Partners will have more Microsoft financing options available to them, which will help increase deal sizes, the company announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans.

Watch Allison Watson, senior vice president of worldwide channels, discuss these new Microsoft financing options in this video from her WPC 2009 keynote address.

Read the full transcript from this video below:

Microsoft financing program expands at WPC 2009

Allison Watson: We're increasing our subsidiaries from 15 subsidiaries to 25, where Microsoft Financing will be available. For those partners who have used Microsoft Financing, you've told us, and we've seen deal sizes increase between 40% and 80%, with use of the assets in the Microsoft Partner Network.

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