Microsoft has had a lot to say in terms of cloud computing developments in recent months, and this latest report in association with IDC may come as no surprise: channel partners who have more than 50% of revenue in cloud are experiencing major payoffs in business growth.

The report surfaced at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC13) in Houston, and found that cloud partners perform better in various KPIs; revenue per employee, higher gross profit, higher customer acquisition, and of course faster growth.

But how many partners are there? The stats from the opening day’s play at WPC13, as The VAR Guy reports, were impressive.

3.2m businesses currently use Office 365; 150,000 partners worldwide are able to sell Office 365 and Microsoft cloud services. Over the past 12 months, 22,000 partners did sell Microsoft public cloud services – certainly impressive figures. But what other trends did …