Back on June 14th, I put up my Your chance to review my performance, because your input counts! post here on the blog where I announced that once again, you would have the opportunity to be a part of my annual review process here at Microsoft by enabling...

This morning in New York, we held a live event with Steve Ballmer where we announced that Microsoft Office 365 has reached the General Availability milestone, meaning it is now readily available in 40 countries and 20 languages around the world. It was...

We are just over 30 minutes away from the Microsoft Office 365 announcement that we have been telling you about. Now what if you are not able to join us for the live webcast? Or what if you want to make sure you have the most up to date information on...

Over the past several weeks, we have been hosting weekly Worldwide Partner Conference Twitter chats with some amazing guest hosts joining us from the partner community, such as: Tiffany Ingargiola (@TiffanyWI ), Jeff Shuey (@JShuey ), and Liza Sisler...

Right now, as I am sure you have seen, there is a lot of buzz and excitement in the air around Microsoft’s next-generation cloud service, Microsoft Office 365! (By the way, be sure to join us live for a Microsoft Office 365 Announcement on June 28th ...

On Tuesday, June 28, from 10-11 a.m. EDT, Steve Ballmer and the Microsoft Office Division will announce news detailing the latest on Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s next-generation cloud service and here is how you can join us live for the event! Now...

For the past couple of weeks, we have been conducting our Worldwide Partner Conference Twitter chats on Thursday mornings from 10:00 – 10:30 am PDT hosted by the WPC Team (@WPCLA) and a guest partner host. The first week we were joined by Tiffany Ingargiola...

Back on March 18th, we announced to the world that the Microsoft Partner Conference 2011 awards submission process was now open , and since that time, partners from all around the world have been submitting their nominations and success stories into the...

For all of you partners in the U.K., here is some information that you should be aware of, if you haven’t seen it already. If you are a U.K based partner, odds are that you know Dell Quinn out of the Microsoft U.K. office and the work she has done with...

Here is some news that just came in hot off the presses that will be directly relevant to all partners out there either with or looking to obtain a gold competency in the Microsoft Partner Network. Today we published the newly updated Gold Competency...

I just wanted to give you all a quick heads up that later today, we will be doing some maintenance here on our blogging platform which means there will be some intermittent pockets of time that my blog will be unavailable. This maintenance is scheduled...

Last Thursday we kicked off our first Worldwide Partner Conference Twitter chat online hosted by the WPC Team (@WPCLA) with Tiffany Ingargiola (@TiffanyWI ), one of the social media mavens online, who answered a bunch of questions from the online audience...

It is hard to believe that another year has gone by already. No, not a calendar year, but for those of you familiar with Microsoft’s fiscal year, you know that our year runs July 1 – June 30. As such, we are now approaching the end of our fiscal year...

With the release of version 1.3 of the Microsoft Partner Information app this morning for Windows Phone and Android phones around the world, I expect to shortly get another round of the “Where is the iPhone version of the app?” and “What about users of...

Today, the v. 1.3 release of the Microsoft Partner Information Mobile App will be coming to Windows Phone and Android users around the world, and it brings with it some very exciting new additions! (If you’re an iPhone owner and want the Microsoft Partner...

In case you’ve missed the tweets being sent out over the past several days on the topic, I thought I would share it here with you as well. Tomorrow, June 9th from 10:00 – 10:30 am PDT, we will be conducting a Worldwide Partner Conference (#WPC11) Twitter...

The Microsoft U.S. Team has just launched an new resource called “ Ask the partners ” that connects people to our network of Microsoft Small Business partners in order to be able to ask questions, get answers, and find a partner to assist with technology...

Would you hand over your Twitter and Facebook account to someone you don’t know voluntarily and let them do with it as they choose? Well, unless you protect your accounts, you may be doing just that. Here’s how to do it. As many of you know, I am a big...

Yesterday at the D9 conference, the world got to see a demo of the next generation of Windows, codenamed “Windows 8,” and hear and see a preview of what this will bring to the future of computing. Given the high interest level in this, I thought I would...

Over the years, we’ve been bringing you the latest updates in the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit that enables you as partners to help your clients do assessments and planning for migrations within their environments. Now, the Microsoft Assessment...