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With more than 30 years of experience covering Microsoft, Directions on Microsoft provides unique perspectives about the shifts in Microsoft technologies, roadmaps and licensing policies that matter most to enterprise-size companies. Twice each month industry veteran Mary Jo Foley interviews a different Directions analyst for informed insights and advice to help you derive full value from your Microsoft investments.

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July 4, 2023 . Season – 2 · Episode – 11 · Duration – 29m 11s When Should You Walk Away from a Microsoft Product? When Microsoft stops investing, you should, too. Mary Jo Foley talks with Directions on Microsoft analyst Wes Miller about how to know when it's time to walk away from Microsoft technologies. He also identifies key Microsoft technologies you may being using that are already on that list.

June 16, 2023 . Season – 2 · Episode – 10 · Duration – 21m 2s Microsoft EA Negotiation Podcast Series – Discovery Process In this second installment of a multi-episode series covering Enterprise Agreements (EAs), Mary Jo Foley talks with Direction on Microsoft senior consultant Joshua Osborne about the EA negotiation discovery process — what it is, why it matters, how best to do it and key mistakes to avoid.

June 7, 2023 . Season – 2 · Episode – 9 · Duration – 28m 49s What is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft is changing its data and analytics playbook with a new end-to-end platform called Microsoft Fabric. In this episode, Mary Jo Foley and analyst Andrew Snodgrass dissect Fabric to parse out what’s really new. They also discuss how Fabric will — and won't — change the way customers work with Microsoft business intelligence technologies.

May 8, 2023 . Season – 2 · Episode – 8 · Duration – 32m 4s Viva EXP: What you need to know about Microsoft's employee-experience platform Microsoft's Viva employee-experience platform is a morphing collection of brand-new and older technologies aimed at improving workers' productivity and job satisfaction. Mary Jo Foley talks with Directions analyst Joshua Trupin about Viva's capabilities (including its AI capabilities), and how its packaging, pricing, and licensing are evolving.