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The customer evidence team are looking for some case studies about partners who are offering Software + Services solutions, including hosting and/or using our newest products such as: Virtual Earth, Silverlight, Expression, Surface, Office Communication...

There is some new content on the worldwide Microsoft Partner Portal for Web Partners, built in Silverlight, which highlights the resources available to you. It addresses the different audience types - IT Generalists , Custom Development Companies and...

The Australia Partner Conference (APC) agenda has now been published and may be downloaded here . Please register for our two ISV sessions :) We're going to cover why we think Software + Services is a good opportunity for our partners to make money ,...

My APC gadget says it's 35 days until the APC. Looking at Nick's blog , I noticed this deadline to submit your award for the Australia Partner Conference is this Friday 27th to be recognised for some of your great work. Visit https://partner.microsoft...

A bunch of us returned from our worldwide Sales & Marketing conference in the US this morning. It was a great opportunity to drink the company koolaid. It was a really good week of sessions, including a rather emotional farewell to Bill. It was also...

Are you a developer new to Microsoft and curious about the tools we offer to help build applications for small businesses? If you are, visit the Small Business Developer Center , an MSDN property that is focused on providing practical, actionable platform...

Tim Sneath has posted 50 Silverlight Applications from Digger to a Comic Book Viewer to a XPS Viewer. It's just the start... if you have a Silverlight App to share, please let us know! Head over to http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/07/from.....

Attending ReMix last month inspired me to create this basic Vista sidebar gadget based on Michael's countdown gadget. At time of writing it's 51 days, 21 hours and 16 minutes to Hamilton Island! To download it, either click here or follow these 5 easy...

I missed this external Q&A with Chris Jones (Corp VP seen above who heads up the Live Experience Program Management group) up on Microsoft PressPass: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/jun07/06-26windowslive.mspx . The Q&A includes...

...to our Partner Conference in Denver next week - which is now sold out. If you are going: Pop by the UK lounge where the Blue Monster will be hanging out with Steve Clayton Join the Facebook group Steve recently created for "Friends of the Blue Monster...

This made me laugh as it's so true... It took me a little while to understand what Twitter was all about, and all though I'm not as mad on Twitter as @FrankArr or the other guys in his team, it's really useful for events and meeting people. Although this...

Tim Sneath has announced some WPF and Silverlight training at a place near you. Check his blog out for other international locations. 3 venues are planned for Australia via Readify : Sydney: July 30th-August 1st Silverlight (Readify) Melbourne: August...

If you are looking for some deep developer training on MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007), then take a look at Siatro's post: http://blogs.msdn.com/ausptsiw/archive/2007/06/19/moss-deep-dive-training-for-partners.aspx What's it called? Hands...

By Jeff Kaplan : http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=123007AIPL56&page=1 Interesting article published on CIO Today about the pro's and con's of the SaaS model... with a quote from our CEO, Steve Ballmer: "Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer...