We are half way through the first day at the Australia Partner Conference, in Hamilton Island. Although we have been here since Monday for a series of pre-days, including Unified Communications and Business Intelligence. I'm looking forward to my presentation...

I attended my first NSW DOT NET Cluster event yesterday. It was a really good evening, with an interesting panel debate on how to raise capital to fund development. Richard White from Cargowise (sitting on the far right) and two Venture Capitalists (on...

If you are attending the Australia Partner Conference and are doing some cool things around the Web and/or offering any Software + Services solution, click here to visit my profile and setup some time with me. I look forward to meeting you.

Andrew Coates has some good resources on Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO) Resources: bits & bytes Get Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Visit the Visual Studio Tools for Office Forum...

It's almost that time of year again... where we ask you for feedback on where we've done a good job and where we need to improve. As part of this effort to improve partner & customer satisfaction, we are sponsoring the Global Relationship Study. This...

I have almost finished my presentation for the Australia Partner Conference. I've just been told that over 100 have registered, so there goes my plan on secretly moving the meeting to the beach. Unless anybody knows of a large pub on the Island? My...

Tim blogs Silverlight RC2 almost with us! Also click here to see more examples built in Silverlight... Technorati Tags: Silverlight

Two new partnerships were announced this week: CNET Channel (the leading provider of product information to online retailers in North America, Western Europe and Australia) who will syndicate and promote "Certified for Windows Vista" and "Works with Windows...

As part of the new Web solutions pages up on the Partner Portal , you can request a Microsoft Web Experience Stack DVD . This is a great resource which is proving to be really popular as it allows you to really test drive our new platform, push it's limits...

Reading the Office Live blog , I saw this eBook (sponsored by Office Live ), “ I Hate my Website: 10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website, Plus 9 Things Never to do” was released last week. If you are new to the web or want some practical advice on what...

From 30 November 2007 , partners either renewing or subscribing to the Action Pack will be required to take an online course from the Partner Learning Centre and pass with a score of 70% or higher, every two years . Supplemental Kit Offerings: Action...

Another one from Chuck: SQL Code Camp is sure to be the SQL Server event of the year! The site for the 2007 event is now being updated and is at: http://www.sqldownunder.com/CodeCamp/tabid/53/Default.aspx with a RSS feed. Many great local speakers have...

The slides are coming through from our Partner Conference in Denver and from our Sales & Marketing Conference. As Long Zheng says, it's been a while since I've seen one slide with all of our product roadmap. It's here! As you'll see from the comments...

I'm been looking at this community kit for SharePoint for a while now and as Eileen says: more and more people are coming round to the idea of SharePoint Wikis and blogs, so the release of our web 2.0 "addon " (great marketing term eh?) is a really great...

From Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: WebTrends releases a new version of their Marketing Lab web analytics product. Mark Evans suggests that the music industry no longer needs fear peer-to-peer networks. It’s social networks that are sharing illegal music...

From Siatro : A 4-day developer centric course has just been finalised for Melbourne, Brisbane & Perth based on the very successful Sydney one held this July (another is being panned for Sydney so I will blog it as soon as I hear about it). Please...

Frank blogged this yesterday and since I've started this job, it's been the number one request I've had from Partners with an Action Pack or an Empower subscription. Well it's hear, courtesy of Readify . It won't be long until you can use VS in Second...

Nick has clearly been really busy blogging recently and posted some useful stuff: ISVs - how to make business proposals to Microsoft Australian Partner Conference selling out fast The Map To Success for Partners Sharepoint Sales Break US$800m Learn all...