In January of last year, I posted a blog about the integration of the Windows Azure cloud services platforms and Intuit’s cloud services platform, which is called the Intuit Partner Platform . Our collective goal was to give developers and channel partners the tools to deliver solutions that reach...

When I first blogged about the Intuit and Microsoft Cloud Partnership in January 2010, I am pleased to share that we have further expanded on our partnership. For more details, check out Intuit's Alex Chriss's updated announcement . ------------------------------------------------- Greetings, my...

I have attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) as an employee since 1999, while I was still working in Microsoft Brazil. Since then the show has evolved a lot. Partner attendance has increased every year, and is now around 10,000 people, and is certainly one of the largest shows in...

Last week, Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, and Steven Martin, Microsoft Senior Director of Developer Platform Product Management, took the stage at JavaOne to give the first ever Microsoft keynote at this event. It was an historic event...

If you missed last week’s valuable presentation about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence , you can view this on demand by visiting the ISV website on Microsoft.com and visiting the Technical Resources page. There have also been many other presentations that you can view on demand on the...

You’ve probably heard the buzz from Microsoft about Software Plus Services and Azure. To me, that means delivering the right software to a customer, at the right time, on the end point of the customer’s choosing. With this model, the possibilities of delivering great experiences to customers are many...

Are you an ISV who provides education-focused solutions that help people to learn? If so, it’s a great time to keep investing in education! History has shown that as the economy slows, growth in education plays a significant role in driving economic growth , as noted by Michael Porter of the Harvard...

Each January Regional Directors from IT companies around the world blog their Annual Predictions. What is a Regional Director you may ask? Regional Directors are members of an elite, worldwide group of technology thought-leaders known for their national and international speaking tours, their authorship...

Charles Torre from Channel 9 had an opportunity recently to talk with Jim Kayler, Senior Technical Specialist and Brian Finnerty, VP of Marketing about their .Net training company, InnerWorkings . Their mission is to help developers learn to write better code faster on the .NET framework. With their...

It is no secret the current economic situation is being considered as one of the deepest slowdowns in the modern history, and from every angle we get more proof of how serious and challenging the situation really is. Recently, the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) published their outlook...

Please join us for this month’s Global ISV Technical Forum Webcast Wednesday, December 17 th , 2008 , 10:00-11:30 AM PST The Azure Services Platform The Azure™ Services Platform offers ISVs the ability to provide their customers a range of choices in user experience over the Web or on connected...

I’m Eric Morse, the Director of Emerging Ecosystems at Microsoft. Though my title may sound like I don hip boots to discover new species of salmon spawning in northwest rivers, I’m actually more jazzed about enabling new technologies to take hold and provide opportunity where perhaps there was not before...

Whether or not you are in the manufacturing industry, the recent Rockwell Automation interview on Microsoft's Channel 9 is an informative show to watch. Rockwell builds automation control and information solutions for manufacturing customers large and small, across most major consumer industries. Hardware...

It is a new era for politics in America, however everyone knows the hard work is still ahead to bring economic stability to world markets. How is your company poised to face the coming financial challenges. What are the current priorities? Are you finding yourself in meeting after meeting looking at...

The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready? If you could not make it to the PDC, then you won't want to miss the MDC! Registration for the MSDN Developer Conference is only $99. You’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and hear all of the exciting announcements...

During PDC ’09, the Channel 9 team was hard at work connecting with many of the ISVs that were attending. Channel 9 host, Charles Torre, had an opportunity to talk with Blue Star Infotech’s, Mehul Shah, a Microsoft Certified Gold partner. The interview is informative and worth watching. Here are a few...

With the recent announcement of Windows Azure at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference things became a little clearer, at least on the technical side of cloud computing. But, what about the business side? What about the ISV who’s trying to determine how to allocate scarce development,...

On October 27th October at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference , Microsoft officially announced 'Windows Azure Services Platform' the next phase in the Microsoft vision for Software + Services and Cloud Computing. Read the official press announcement for the official story. Windows® Azure...

Here are a few blogs that we wanted to share about what is happening this week at PDC. http://blogs.msdn.com/mattbremer/ http://blogs.msdn.com/croman/ http://blogs.msdn.com/expressate (Spanish language) http://geeks.netindonesia.net/blogs/risman/ http://blogs.msdn.com/jimoneil/archive...

Have you ever attended a Microsoft Professional Developers Conference? It’s an event so packed with great information and new technology, attendees claim their brains start sending back “out of memory” error messages. That’s what happens when a torrent of peer-to-peer geekology throttles your cerebral...