IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

We are not short of content these days - why not try one or two of our Windows Server 2008 technical webcasts nicely grouped together by my colleagues in Microsoft EMEA. Windows Server 2008 Event Page: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/event.aspx...

Lots of partners I meet in the UK take advantage of the Microsoft Action Pack (For £199 plus VAT you get oodles of software!!!). From March 1 st , all of you renewing your subscriptions must take a course and pass an assessment to renew. The good...

I first blogged on this back in January but based on all my meetings in Feb, very few ISVs seem to know about it. Lets expand a little. The most often repeated reason I’ve been given for wanting access to the Microsoft source code is for debugging...

2008 has included a number of conversations with ISVs along the lines of "We are currently Java but we think .NET might be a better choice for us. Can you help?" and "We are currently using old technology X and are considering changing...

At the moment there is a lot of activity in Microsoft UK to gather up all the great stories from our early adopters we have been working with - everything from videos to case studies to short sound bytes. Which made me realise that we must be missing...

I was just skimming my blog feeds in Feedghost (very nice tool by the way - and now has a great free version) and came across a blog entry by a fellow Microsoftee Clare which included this picture which pops up from time to time. In 2008 I am working...

It is becoming increasingly common for UK ISVs to ask us about Silverlight. Which is a good thing as I have previously blogged about why ISVs should care about Silverlight and these are important discussions which can impact technology choices which may...

When I first joined Microsoft in 1996 I was lucky enough to work with Compaq to create a SQL Server scalability lab for ISVs. I learnt a lot about both SQL Server and how to run scalability exercises that year. I also learnt that in such exercises you...

The following resources should help you get up to speed on Windows HPC Server 2008 and high performance computing in general - whether you prefer to read, listen, watch or travel. First up, two events in March. Events: London, March 27th 2008: In the...