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Over 95% of Microsoft's revenue flows through the channel , making the partner ecosystem critical to the company's overall success. At the same time, Microsoft is vested in helping partners realize success for their own companies. This is achieved in part through a $5.8 billion investment in a "suite" of core Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) program benefits, including partner account management, internal-use rights software, and over $4 billion in a portfolio of incentives including Solution Incentives and Online Incentives. This suite of core benefits is available to help partners address
all phases of the partner business life cycle and is the focus of this research.
IDC issued a new white paper which estimates that members of the worldwide Microsoft ecosystem generated local revenues for themselves of $580 billion in 2010, up from $537 billion in 2009 and $475 billion in 2007 .
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