A question I have started to see circulating is whether or not the 50% off year 1 up-to-date discount available through Open Value Subscription expired last Friday (June 27 th ) just like the Big Easy offer expired , or the Open Value VAR Rebate expired...

Gas prices got you down? They’re insane! Well, the Microsoft Small Business Team has got a little something that should help you get by during the summer months—actually, 5,000 little somethings. We’re giving away 5,000 gallons of gas! Yep, we’re offering...

Late last week, we made the announcement that Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008, RTMed. Hyper-V offers customers a reliable, scalable and high-performance virtualization...

Yesterday, Bill Veghte, Microsoft Senior Vice President, published an open letter to all business customers around the world regarding Windows Vista, the continued support and availability of Windows XP and the future roadmap on Windows 7. I am sharing...

There have been some questions regarding if single day passes to Worldwide Partner Conference would be available for Partners who wanted to attend a specific day of the Conference without attending the entire Conference. The answer is, “Yes, there will...

Are you debating if you should buy SBS 2003 R2 Premium now or wait until SBS 2008 comes out? Wondering if there is any reason to make the decision sooner rather than later? If so, then how does getting your SBS 2003 R2 Premium Server for as little as...

Are you debating if you should buy SBS 2003 R2 Standard now or wait until SBS 2008 comes out? Wondering if there is any reason to make the decision sooner rather than later? If so, then how does getting your SBS 2003 R2 Standard Server for as little as...

Here’s a question that has been coming up from time to time now that Windows Server 2008 is launched and SBS 2008 is still not released. The basic question is, since SBS CALs include rights to Windows Servers in the SBS domain, how does this apply now...

Are you debating if you should upgrade to SBS 2003 R2 from your SBS 2000 or SBS 2003 now or wait until SBS 2008 comes out? Wondering if there is any reason to make the decision sooner rather than later? If so, then how does getting your SBS 2003 R2 CALs...

For those of you coming to Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference , and for those watching the Digital WPC presentations, come join me on Thursday, July 10 th from 1:30 – 2:30 in Room 372 BCEF for the session SMB007 - More Money through Higher-Value...

Did you know that you can sell (or buy) Microsoft Office Live Meeting (you know, the same service we use when we present webcasts or when you attend our virtual meetings) to your clients through the Open Value (OV) and Open Value Subscription (OVS) Programs...

Since my “ Yes, that's included. Plus answers to many more questions ” post that talked about several of the benefits included in the NASCAR sponsorship opportunity, the pictures of the car with where your logo would show up, and the fact that SBSC Partners...

Did you catch the Microsoft Small Business Summit when it aired live back in March? Of not, or if you’d like to view replays of the various sessions run throughout the Small Business Summit, we now have the Small Business Summit replay engine up and running...

Starting at 7:00 am PST this morning, the Microsoft Windows Vista Business Small Business Show will be playing live, here on the Blog. We’ll keep it playing from 7:00 am PST on Tuesday through 7:00 PM PST on Wednesday. The viewer is contained below, so...

I received the following question over the weekend calling out the fact that although I have covered OEM Windows licensing, transfer rights, etc. on the Blog, apparently I have not directly answered the question of reloading an OEM Windows license on...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (or MAP) is the next-generation version of the agent-less assessment platform from Microsoft. In this new version, MAP has expanded its capabilities into assessment areas of Hyper-V server virtualization,...

Yes, we are giving away an Xbox 360 gaming system along with the new NASCAR 09 Xbox 360 game in our TuningITUp.com promotional giveaway! Back in my Tuning IT Up post in May I eluded to this promotion, only I inadvertently listed that we would be giving...

As the saying goes, “all good things must come to an end,” and just moments ago, Paige Boesen made the public announcement to the SBSC Advisory Group that she is moving on from the position at Microsoft that so many of us have come to know her to be in...

Ever since the announcement of the launch of Open Value Subscription here in the US, there has been a lot of excitement around this offer. Since then, the momentum has continued through the addition of Open Value Subscription to the Big Easy Offer and...

As noted in several of the Open Value Subscription posts to date, one principal of Open Value Subscription to remember is that your initial agreement will be a company-wide agreement (meaning one license per computer in your company) for at least one...

This question is one that I presented on back in my Introduction to Open Value Subscription for Partners Live Meetings I was conducting back in January and February. Now that Open Value Subscription has launched here in the US and more and more Partners...

Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product. For every person who throws up both hands at the prospect of creating a complex...

Have you seen the new Windows Vista Experience site ? This newly launched site hosts many stories from real small businesses who are benefiting from running Windows Vista on their PC’s. This interactive site also includes the option of submitting your...

Microsoft is proud to recognize partners who have developed exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year and who are winners of and finalists for the 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Awards. These outstanding partners demonstrated...

Back in March, I posted about the Open Value VAR Rebate returning until June 27 th , 2008. Well, we are now 17 days from the end, which means you only have that long to make sure you are registered for the rebate and to close any Open Value or Open Value...