The existence of Partner TV - a Video Cast blog completely passed me by - oops! It contains high quality video casts about topics specifically of interest to partner. As a bonus - it is driven out of Microsoft UK. Get yourself over to http://blogs...

On the 18th January my colleague Nick Page presented at the ISV Innovation Day - which lead me to wonder - "what else was covered?". The answer is - a fair old bit. If you are an ISV and couldn't make it, perhaps worth finding 30minutes to skim through...

I rather like this new blog http://blogs.msdn.com/armadillo - "A Microsoft UK blog aimed at next generation software development strategies, software and services". Actually - its far more fun than that description sounds - reflecting the authors ever...

With my New Years resolution long since forgotten, the obvious thing for me to do was... tidy the area under my desk, throw out a DCOM book and... change the style of this blog. I haven't totally settled on one yet - so bare with me!

Yey - I know several of our ISVs have been waiting patiently for these downloads. I just need to find a day to try them both out! You can beat me to it by downloading them from http://microsoft.com/expression

As a group we work with partners (my bit) and customers (the other bit). The "other bit" has been working on a number of great consumer focused solutions working with delivery partners such as Fernhart . One of these is the rather nice work with ITN to...

I know many of our ISVs need to make it as easy as possible for customers to evaluate their products - and sometimes that means complex configuration or a need to run several Microsoft products alongside their own. The great news is ISVs can ship preconfigured...

Good news for our early adopters of ASP.NET AJAX - V1.0 is now done. Get yourself over to http://ajax.asp.net/default.aspx to download today. If your not sure what AJAX is, take 20mins to watch this video or read the overview . Enjoy.

Mike and I are in the same team and we share something else - we both managed at Microsoft before returning to technology. In my case I managed for less than a year before I realised it wasn't for me but in Mikes case he managed for several years - yet...

Microsoft and I have know each other for over 10 years now - which means I have know Mr Paul Foster for over 10 years as well. Paul is a great techie and a great evangelist and operates at the more "extrovert" end of the specturm of evangelist (he can...

My US colleagues have been working with Yahoo to help create a new version of their Messenger product which takes advantage of Windows Vista and Windows Presentation Foundation. This looks to be coming along very nicely with some great UX (thanks to the...

In March we run our second AIC - two days of conference specifically for senior architects, CTOs and senior IT decision makers. A great place to engage in architectural discussion and debate, and network with your peers. The conference will take place...

Your are a developer? You are in the UK? Then get yourself over to http://www.Microsoft.com/UK/launch2007/dev/default.mspx and check out what the team has pulled together for UK developers to launch Windows Vista and Office 2007. I am gutted that my Achilles...

Back on Nov 9th I played Badminton - and.... snapped my Achilles Tendon. The day after I had an operation to repair the tendon, was set in a cast and.... so started the next 9 weeks of my life. The first 4 of which I spent pretty much in bed watching...