Microsoft on ISVs

Greetings and Salutations! My name is Raj and I manage Microsoft’s relationships with several of the leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) ISVs. In Karl’s previous post he talked about how to work with Microsoft when you are afraid we’ll eat your...

You’d be amazed how often I’ve heard some variation of that question. Given the mystery surrounding partnering with Microsoft, I thought it might be helpful to share some Advice Tidbits over the next few weeks. I’m Karl Dittman and I am responsible for...

Greetings! My name is Dan Lohmeyer. I work on Eddie’s team as the Director of the ISV Strategy group. I’ve been at Microsoft for four years, always focused on ISVs. Previously, I was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company (Palo Alto, CA) and...

I am Nat Natarajan, Director of the ISV evangelism team responsible for engaging and enabling some of the largest ISV’s in the world to adopt our platform. I am a fan of “team blogs” and it is with pleasure that I am joining our team of bloggers. In my...

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...

Over the years, I've had the pleasure (and sometimes pain) of being involved in writing and maintaining the internal coding standards documents for nearly every company I've ever worked for. I present to you the latest incarnations of my efforts: a zip...

Now that’s a headline you didn���t expect to see. Scott Guthrie posted on his blog that we are providing developers with the ability to download and browse the source code for the .NET Framework Libraries. This will come with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET...

If you've ever designed a form to collect demographic information, chances are you included a question about gender. It probably was a drop-down list with two options: 1. Female 2. Male A couple weeks ago I managed to get my hands on an invite...

Ensuring that your current applications will run properly on a future product version can be a daunting task. Scalability Experts has made your life a little easier with their FREE upgrade assessment tool. The SQL Server Upgrade Assistant will help you...

Hi, I’m Eddie Amos the General Manager of Microsoft’s Worldwide Independent Software Vendor (ISV) team. I have perhaps the coolest job at Microsoft. Think about it for a minute, what other job gives you the opportunity to work so many different and diverse...

It’s that time of the year… cherry tree blossoms grace the Redmond streets while we’re inside working on ISV portfolios! In my earlier post, I wrote that Microsoft has “managed” relationships with about 2,700 ISVs. “Managed” means that we commit a...

*Update Alert* Since my May 4, 2011 posting, I am delighted to announce that the much anticipated official foursquare 2.X app for Windows Phone is available for download as of July 1, 2011. For further information, please refer to the following foursquare...

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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...

What software company wouldn’t want to reach millions of new customers? Windows can help you do that during the global launch timeframes. Simply show the world you are working to support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, by getting your products listed...

This was recently brought to my attention and I thought you would be interested in these compelling interviews posted on www.howsoftwareisbuilt.com . Interview with Marc Frons - CTO - New York Times Digital - Part 2 Interview with Mark Osborne,...

Oracle is courting Microsoft ISVs with a series of events targeted directly at our Gold partners. That initiative has caused me to ponder the intriguing question “Why would a Microsoft partner invest time attending these events?” Oracle thinks you...

Let’s be real, interoperability can be hard – at least that is what our customers and independent software vendors (ISV) are telling us. Two years ago, I joined Microsoft from an ISV that both partnered and competed with Microsoft. My opportunity was...

On Earth Day, it’s only appropriate to announce the 2 nd Round winners of the Ingenuity Point contest. Around the world, awareness of the challenges we face as a global community are taking center stage. Problems and solutions are brought to the forefront...

Hi, I’m Jill Tracy-Khoury and I’m part of the Worldwide Partner Group Technical Services team. I wanted to let you know about a new online technical support offering that recently launched in International English on the Partner portal , where registered...

The installed base of 64-bit Windows Vista PCs, as a percentage of all Windows Vista systems, has more than tripled in the U.S. in the last three months according to a blog posted by Chris Flores on this blog entry Windows Vista 64-bit Today , stating...

Channel 9 host Charles Torre posted a great 10 minute interview he captured at Tech Ed in Barcelona with PreEmptive Software President, Gabriel Torok. Torok and Torre discuss Dotfuscator and their protection solution which protects .net applications....

We at Microsoft are on the verge of releasing one of the most powerful and reliable products in the history of the company, Windows Server 2008. Containing numerous improvements and new features, Windows Server 2008 is a product everybody can be proud...

Recently, Channel 9 host, Charles Torre, had an opportunity to talk with Full Armor CTO, Danny Kim, a Microsoft Global ISV partner. The interview is informative, entertaining and well worth watching. Here are a few highlights for your reading pleasure...

Greetings! My name is Persio and I manage Microsoft’s relationships with several of the leading ERP, CRM and Enterprise Search ISVs. In earlier blogs, my colleagues ( Karl and Raj ) talked about how to partner with Microsoft and why Microsoft is...