Just got back from the Philippines in time for Christmas in Washington. Posted a recap of my Cloud-Computing related adventures at: http://cloudphilippines.blogspot.com

A lot has happened since I last updated this blog three years ago. Here’s a quick chronology to catch everyone up before resuming this blog: 2007 – MBA Completed from the University of North Carolina 2008 – Became Group Business Manager managing Xbox...

I am in Bangalore this week to visit our lnternational-English delivery site. It is an impressive operation with over 150 specialists, and partner technical consultants serving thousands of partners world-wide. This week caps a very busy and productive...

We have another member of the ISV Advisory Services team blogging about technology. http://blogs.msdn.com/amitava/default.aspx Amitava leads a team of our engineers in providing services to help partners attain Windows Vista Logo certification. With the...

We're at the Worldwide Partner conference this week in Denver, marking the third consecutive year our group has participated. For me, it's always great to interact with our ISV partners on what they find most important and to share with them the benefits...

I am always excited to get e-mail like this: The Office TFA Team has its first blogger. Congratulations Pranab and Happy blogging!!! J http://blogs.msdn.com/pranab/ Thanks and have a great day. Kind regards, Vinod Venugopal...

Hoisting the Philippine Flag up on the blog site to commemorate Philippine Independence. Flag image courtesy of Anton Diaz ( http://www.anton.blogs.com/ ) On Friday (June 15), the MS Filipino Diversity Action commitee will hold an Independence...

Today marks an important milestone in my career at Microsoft. I finally get to attend one of Steve Ballmer's Townhall meetings in person . In prior years, I have religiously attended these important meetings remotely through webcasts. Having spent the...

After 8+ years at Microsoft, we are finally at Corporate Headquarters (eg. The Mothership). Interestingly, we have moved here to do the same jobs. It's been a productive 4 weeks, but admittedly, the first two weeks were very dreary because of the rain...

In case you were wondering where we were having our offsite (Victoria, BC): Victoria, BC

I'm 30,000 feet above the Midwestern United States traveling to Seattle for a leadership offsite with my Global Partner Support colleagues. Together, we deliver support and services benefits for partners through the Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP) which...

I've been wanting to jump back into the community scene for quite a while, and it might as well be tonight. It has been crazy busy lately with normal ISV-Advisory-Services operations and the neat collaborative projects we have in the works. In the last...

With the imminent (Release to Manufacturing) RTM of Windows Vista at the end of 2006, it is prudent for software vendors and enthusiasts to start testing their applications for compatibility with the new OS. Microsoft has released a whitepaper highlighting...

I'm amazed every time I think about the great benefits and programs now available to Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners and I believe that now's the best time to be a breadth ISV on the Microsoft platform. These benefits and programs...

I manage the global delivery of a Microsoft Partner Program benefit for Independent Software Vendors (ISV) called ISV Advisory Services. It is a very exciting technical enablement benefit that was launched in 2005 ( press release ). At its core, the benefit...

Well, I finally jumped into the blogosphere despite years of succesfully convincing myself that I did not have the time for this. Fortunately, or not , blogging has caught up with me thanks to two events in January that were just too much of a coincidence...