It's easy to download the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 beta here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx Microsoft Office 2010 is the best experience across the PC, smartphone and browser...

You're in luck... you can see the future of developer technology via live streaming broadcast powered by Silverlight / IIS 7 here: http://microsoftpdc.com/ Watch the live keynotes on Nov 17th & 18th at 8:30am PST. 11/17 - Ray Ozzie & Bob...

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is worth checking out if you want free access to your information anywhere on any PC without even having to install Office. No more having to email documents to yourself or use flash drives when you are not in front of...

A lot of us at Microsoft are having fun connecting with friends, family and co-workers on Facebook! Microsoft has created a Facebook Dev Tookkit. The kid includes C# and VB wrappers for the Facebook API. You can download it here: http://msdn2.microsoft...

Catch the latest ISV Connect “Best in Show” video interviews from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference show floor in Boston . I interviewed partners and Microsoft employees exhibiting on the show floor to find out what’s most exciting now around...

I had the great opportunity this month to interview a few of our top executives here at Microsoft about what’s new in the 2007 Microsoft Office System and to discuss opportunities for Microsoft partners. Check it out here: www.isvconnect.com I hosted...

Catch the latest ISV Connect “Best in Show” video interviews from the AIIM 2006 Conference and Expo show floor in Philadelphia . We interviewed partners and customers exhibiting on the show floor where we captured a lot of buzz and excitement around new...

Catch the latest ISV Connect “Best in Show” video interviews from Microsoft Management Summit show floor in San Diego . We captured the “buzz” by interviewing some of our partners and Microsoft experts. Topics include inventory tools and server management...

My ISV Connect team and I participate in a lot of great partner and technical conferences throughout the year. Everyone knows the experience of feeling the “buzz” of a great event. We wanted to try to capture some of that energy and great content and...

Back in September 2005 I launched the ISV Connect SQL Server 2005 Broadcast featuring a high level overview of SQL Server 2005 and opportunities around this new release for our partners. Over the past few months, I have received a lot of feedback...

I hosted a quick ISV Connect interview with Ray Winninger and Jennifer Ritzinger, both of Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism, for a preview of what MIX06 is all about and why anyone doing business on the web today should attend this 72 hour conversation...

Have you heard about MIX? It’s a 72 hour conversation live in Vegas, March 20-22, to discuss with industry leaders high-fidelity commerce, media, services and security for the World Wide Web. The MIX conference is a LIVE conversation between web developers...

I had the opportunity to interview one of our great ISV partners, Laura McClure, Vice President of Strategic Alliances CA, together with Microsoft General Manager Worldwide ISV Group, Rob Bernard, on site at CA World 2005 in Vegas. View the video...

On 11/1/05 Microsoft Corp. announced two new Internet-based software services — Windows Live™ and Microsoft® Office Live. Windows Live helps bring together all the elements of an individual’s digital world. Office Live helps small companies do business...

There is a new series featured in the “Shows” area on Channel 9 that is of particular interest to me called WM_IN (women in technology). This new series features women at Microsoft who work in development, marketing, research, and evangelism who have...

Check out ISV Chalk Talk hosted by Doc Holladay! http://isvchalktalk.com ISV Chalk Talk is a new blog community for ISVs looking for information around the .NET Platform and Microsoft development tools as well as other key technologies across Microsoft...

Today I attended the launch event in San Francisco announcing the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006. Steve Ballmer ’s keynote was full of energy as per usual and there was a lot of excitement...

Our Worldwide ISV team has a great program called the ISV Buddy Program where ISVs can connect directly with Microsoft employees. The Microsoft employee becomes your point person within Microsoft. Through this 1-on-1 relationship, your Microsoft buddy...

My team and I are new to blogging and have all gotten really caught up in it! We’ve noticed some new behavior blogging seems to bring on and decided to make light of it. Feel free to add your own observations via comments. We want to improve our list...

My inaugural ISV Connect broadcast covered Microsoft Smart Client Strategy and features an expert interview with long time Microsoftie, Scott Garvey, Microsoft Regional Technology Director. Scott boils Smart Client dos and don’ts down to give you a clear...

I work in the Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft in the Worldwide ISV Group where we spend all our time focused on our great ISV partners (Independent Software Vendors). As part of the ISV Connect program I manage, I recently interviewed...

One of my favorite programs I drive in my role here in DPE ISV Marketing is ISV Connect! ISV Connect launched at WPC 2005 and is a great resource for our ISV partners. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to interview Paul Flessner, Microsoft Sr....