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Industry legend Mary Jo Foley, former Microsoft CTO Barry Briggs, licensing guru Lane Shelton, and our team of expert analysts decode Microsoft’s next moves before the rest of the industry sees them coming. If you’re building your organization’s Microsoft strategy, you need to read this.

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a bunch of colorful graphs and charts meant to look like a playbook illustration May 29, 2026 Your Next EA Renewal: It’s Past Time to Update Your Unified Support Playbook  Lane Shelton by
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