With Australian Partner Conference coming round fast, we are excited by the quality of the submissions we have had for the awards already BUT WE WANT MORE ! We know there is such great work going on in the Aussie partner world so please take the time...

[You will see the acronym WPC used a lot in the coming weeks = Worldwide Partner Conference ! ] As many of you know we are running an online web initiative, Digital WPC , in the build up to the full event in July, to help extend coverage of the event...

Many of our local partners will known Mike Fiztmaurice from the corporate Sharepoint team (previously here ). Probably one of the most well known Microsoft people worldwide in the Sharepoint space. Well he has just just joined an Aussie-HQ'd ISV that...

http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia/archive/2008/05/29/sbs-2008-public-beta-now-available-come-get-it.aspx

Via David Dembo's new health partner blog - congrats to the partner listed below. "Microsoft Health Partners Win AIIA iAwards I am proud of the fact that a large number of the nominees for this years AIIA iAwards were Microsoft Health and Human Services...

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/05/27/microsoft-demonstrates-multi-touch.aspx for commentary or see the video here: Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

Good spot by Ross Dembecki - this video comes from the recent keynote at Office DevCon in the US Video: CRM Demo during Kurt DelBene's keynote at Office Developer's Conference

With the public beta for both products now available, we’re happy to announce the first official Microsoft training sessions for Windows Small Business Server 2008 and the new Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Led by Robbie Upcroft, Microsoft...

Announcing a new blog aimed specifically at health partners in Australia launched by our health services industry manager David Dembo, with help from my team. You can subscribe via RSS or email and do let me know if you find this valuable. http://blogs...

Ensuring your customers’ websites are ready for Internet Explorer 8 Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant...

The licensing training is next week - a reminder to register to secure your spot: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2008/05/14/free-volume-licensing-training-for-partners-in-partnership-with-ingram-micro.aspx " Want to maximise your revenue...

https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40063406 Allison Watson, who runs partner worldwide for Microsoft, talks in this Digital Worldwide Partner Conference (Digital WPC) video, to Rob Bernard our Chief Environmental Strategist. "Overview View this...

See Christian's blog for an opportunity to win a TekSkin : http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/2008/05/21/win-a-tekskin-for-your-laptop.aspx

There is a huge buzz around Live Mesh - I've been using it myself to test it out and the concept is superb, and the technology works well, even though only a tech preview. the basic idea is to synch devices and documents that you define, but with the...

Harvey blogged about this - looks awesome... http://blogs.technet.com/harveys/archive/2008/05/13/microsoft-worldwide-telescope.aspx Press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx

There is a Microsoft-hosted forum going on right now for the leaders of the online advertising business - http://www.advance08.com/home.html And as part of the event there are a few announcements of interest to partners tracking the developments in this...

We made an announcement yesterday on this exciting initiative that connects partners and customers to get Sharepoint deployed: " Microsoft Boosts Investment in Partner Channel to Enhance Customer Experience in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007...

I had an enjoyable day today at Remix08 in Sydney - attended a web agency breakfast and then watched the keynote with many of these people . It was great to see such a fabulous array of Australian innovation in the web area. www.bigbrother.com.au , www...

Help Microsoft raise $100,000 for the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program, to help Aussie kids get the education they need for a brighter future. From May 15 2008, for every short Microsoft® Office 2007 Charity demo that is viewed, Microsoft...

Video: Bill Gates Demonstrates Touch Wall http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ceosummit/default.mspx

We opened the APC (=Australian Partner Conference) awards up for submissions this week. Partners have a month or so (until 16th June) to enter their solutions in for awards. See here for all the details: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064...

" REDMOND, Wash. — May 13, 2008 — Healthcare developers can take the next step toward increasing patient safety and clinician effectiveness with the new version 1.3 of Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI), available today from...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/05/07/partner-tv-remix08.aspx Finula and Michael from our developer & evangelism team talk briefly about the forthcoming Remix event - I will be there in Sydney on Tues - come up and say hi if you are...

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