According to CRN Microsoft has added 300-500 direct sales people to pitch its cloud strategy to both end users and partners starting July 1, the beginning of the company's new fiscal year. Microsoft general manager, partner strategy for the US Public Sector Vince Menzione said at a conference Monday, "All of our salespeople will be leading with cloud." Microsoft will have new partner and pricing models around cloud services next month. "We are breaking glass within Microsoft," Menzione reportedly said. The cloud "is changing our business models, processes and product portfolio." The stops-out effort is supposed to be akin to the fight it waged against Netscape.