Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia

I got the final email from the 'Early Start' for the Unified Communications Early Start today. Copied here below - now that the specialisation is live, you'll begin to see additional focus and targetted resources to help you gain this specialisation if...

Not yet available in its beta form in Australia but good to see that it's coming down the line: So this is a name change (formerly Windows Live Folders) and with some feature enhancements: · An upgraded look and feel – new graphics to go along with your...

My colleague David Dembo, our Health and Human Services Industry Manager, is just about to give a presentation at TechEd, around knowledge-driven health. As part of the presentation there are some useful links and info that are generally of interest ...

I am at TechEd today on the Gold Coast. Great to see a number of partners exhibiting - so far I've spoken with OBS/Nintex , K2 , Advanced Training , Excom , and Readify amongst others. Some awesome sessions going on - going to go to user experience one...

The Partner Learning Center is a comprehensive online store of training and related resources - both sales, marketing and technical. You can keep your team focussed on billable work and still allow them to upskill - at no cost. It will help you find suitable...

I used to run a Gold partner and often found the portal just too complex and unwieldy to be useful. No surprise to many of the readers of this blog ! However there is some really useful content in there, so I've decided to kickstart a little series of...

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" REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 5, 2007 — For the first time, people around the world can view 3-D images of the space shuttle Endeavour and surrounding buildings at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before it launches into space, through a collaboration between...

"I sit down with Dan Fernandez and he takes us through Popfly. Popfly is about building content without having to write code. In just a couple of seconds you can snap things together like gadgets and cool web content. You can even rip content from other...

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I have some important news for those of you who are Action Pack subscribers! Beginning November 30, 2007 partners either renewing or subscribing to Action Pack will be required to take an online course from the Partner Learning Center and pass the associated...

Next week of course is TechEd - I am going up on the Thursday and hope to meet some partners there. We have a big presence and focus on learning for partners and customers at this event - here is a summary. Do make sure you check out the offerings, visit...

This was announced yesterday - but good news on a friday is just that much more pleasing :-) After a relatively fixed focus on the ODF standard only, Massachusetts has decided to support the Open XML standard. This is good news for all Microsoft partners...

An interesting Q&A session with Steve Guggenheimer, our general manager of App Plat Marketing: Includes questions on SOA, BI and next-gen applications. " REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 2, 2007 -- People are at the heart of every successful business. They make...

http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/07/27/three-new-features-in-live-search-images.aspx Now that is a great idea - we've all spent ages scrolling through pages of images looking for something - at least now you can narrow a search for someone...

Spotted via Frank . Great piece of innovation from Readify here: www.tfsnow.com The concept ? Hosted, managed Visual Studio Team Foundation Server offering - first in the world apparently. Very cool. Software Plus Services in action !