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Since joining the Partner Team to help partners adopt the Windows Azure platform , I have met many companies producing awesome apps powered by Azure. As such, I created this collection of stories to share with you. If you would like more information,...

Tomorrow (Friday 14 May) is your last chance to buy early bird tickets at $195 including GST for REMIX Australia 2010. We really hope you can join us to hear more about the future of the web. There’s plenty of content on developing for Windows Phone 7...

As you may have seen on Michael’s blog , REMIX10 has been announced. Please find below the invitation and keep and eye on the REMIX Website for more information and the latest news.

We launched a new campaign today to promote the Web Platform Installer. Very simply, WebPI is a tool that installs IIS7, extensions, tools, runtimes and applications in a easy to use manner. Get complimentary apps for everything from blogging to e-commerce...

Join us for this MSDN Book Club to discuss “ Building on the Windows 7 User Experience to Delight Your Customers ” When? Friday 26th March 2010 @ 12-1pm Sydney time. Click here to add the event to your diary Join the meeting Chosen video to review...

Our Azure Lead, Greg Willis , was busy last week with the Australian Launch Event on Tuesday 23rd here in Sydney!   Our keynote speaker, David Chappell , delivered an excellent presentation on cloud platforms in general which was very well received...

We hope you can join us for our second MSDN Australia Book Club. What’s the Book Club? A regular LiveMeeting community discussion on a chosen presentation or video. This time we’ll be joined by Vijay Rajagopalan to discuss Developing Windows Azure Applications...

When? Tuesday 9th February 2010 at 6.30pm Where? University of Sydney: New Law School Auditorium Who? Developers who are interested in hearing Robbie Bach’s (President, Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division) view on the future of technology...

Optimise for and more! Microsoft announced today a new extension for IIS: the SEO Toolkit . Once installed, you can review your website via the IIS Manager to make tweaks fast. The SEO Toolkit includes detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions...

Andrew Coates and Joel Pobar have organised our first MSDN Book Club! Review Joel’s TechEd presentation , download the slides and join this Book Club LiveMeeting to have your questions answered and to discuss the finer points of “Big Algorithms Made Easy...

It is the Christmas present that is worth the wait ‘til January!  The HTC HD2 You can win 1 of 5 HTC HD2 Windows phones by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-au/meet/HTC-HD2.mspx and telling the team in 25 words or less how the HTC...

Most of the Aussie DPE Team are on LinkedIn and I thought I’d create a local MSDN group for Australian Developers to enable some discussion. Click here to join. We’re going to use LinkedIn to ask Developers if there’s interest in participating in...

Two of our Developer Evangelists, Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi (as seen in the “ we’re looking for a boss ” video) have setup a new podcast, “ FranklySpeaking ”. It’s a great listen and if you’re interested in technology, I think you’ll enjoy it...

Big news today from ScottGu’s blog is that there will be another public preview release of VS2010 and .NET 4 before shipping the final product. Read on for an excerpt from Scott's blog for why… In October we shipped the public Beta 2 release of...

The Search is on... we are looking for Australia’s Certification Heroes! We want to hear from you if becoming Microsoft Certified has helped change your career by making you more valuable in your current role or by helping you gain a promotion. Every...

Sarah in the Partner Team is organising a lap around the map for a series of Innovation Days. The morning sessions is on emerging opportunities for the web, mobile and beyond: To deliver innovative experiences to attract and retain loyal customers. To...

If you are an MSDN subscriber, Office 2010 beta is available for download. If you’re interested in exploring the developer investments in Office 2010, visit the Developer Centre . SharePoint 2010 is also available via MSDN Subscriber Downloads . There...

Check out this set of nifty Windows Server 2008 R2 training tidbits for developers:   New R2 Learning Center   Explore this significant Windows Server release via a self-paced training course of videos and hands-on-labs with a focus on performance...

Today at 1.30pm (Sydney time) is HAMMER TIME. We will be holding our first LIVE Smooth Streaming event in Australia with MTV interviewing MC Hammer (who also appeared on Rove last Sunday). Hammer is Down Under promoting the new Xbox game Lips featuring...

The developer solution team are visiting eight cities over the next couple of months to tell Australia about the new Visual Studio 2010 . Register now as places are limited.

We published a new look for the MSDN Flash and I’d be interested in your thoughts: is this a useful resource for you? How would you improve it? A lot of the feedback I received at TechEd was to make the newsletter shorter by making it a snap shot of what...

Gizmodo have reported that Harvey Norman will be open at midnight this evening which makes them one of the first retailers in the world to sell a copy of Windows 7. Click here to find a store near you or visit their Windows 7 promo site . You can even...

Microsoft announced today the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers with general availability following on 21 October. Check out and download Beta 2 Featured overviews...

Beth’s blog has some really good discussion about the new look for MSDN just around the corner… the Visual Basic Developer Centre is a good preview of what’s to come... The current look: What’s new? New colour – from red to blue… Better layout on the...

AIMIA is calling for entries into the 16th Annual AIMIA Awards, which celebrate the very best examples of digital media in Australia and New Zealand.  Known affectionately as “The Amys” by the industry, the awards showcase work undertaken by Australia...