Catherine Grima introduces DevSta : http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/09/29/partner-tv-devsta.aspx

Mel Barlow, Microsoft Australia’s SMB Public Sector Director, talks about the Local Government Networking Nights , which will be held during this September and October. They’re an excellent way for you to find out how you can boost your profits...

PDC (Professional Developers Conference) is going be a milestone event this time - cloud OS, Windows & etc. Our ISV blog just summarised the key points to look forward to: http://blogs.msdn.com/msftisvs/archive/2008/09/25/new-pdc-announcements.aspx...

For all partners who manage customers' infrastructure, and many others, please make sure you are fully aware of the actions needed relating to daylight savings changes. Here is some useful information for you : What is the impact of Daylight Savings changes...

In the next few weeks you may receive a request to complete an online survey about your levels of satisfaction with Microsoft. Success for Microsoft is to have you say you are ‘very satisfied’ rather than ‘somewhat dissatisfied’ or ‘very dissatisfied...

We are just launching a new awareness campaign for some of the top MSPP (Microsoft Partner Program) benefits for partners. First cab off the rank: Online Technical Communities. Share ideas and get help from other Partners When it comes to resolving specific...

In early October Microsoft Australia will be contacting 16000 of our small and medium business customers via a direct mail, inviting them to profile themselves in return for a more tailored information service. Customer profiling empowers Microsoft to...

Register now to attend our Networking Nights and boost sales Microsoft is delighted to invite you to a series of exclusive Partner Networking Nights in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, to help you meet the needs of a growing local government...

This week Christian and team ran a very successful webcast on ISV Royalty operations - if you are an ISV wanting to know more then check out Christian's slides on his wrap up posting .

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/09/11/what-s-up-with-those-ads.aspx for some discussion points. The next Seinfeld/Gates TV ad is up on YouTube for you to see: http://www.youtube.com/user/windowsvideos What do you think ? Let...

I had a question today from a partner asking about CSP, Citizen Services Platform, which we will introduce at our forthcoming P2P networking nights . CSP is a little like Learning Gateway in the education space - some targetted functionality build on...

Why leave a voicemail when you can now leave a video mail: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-09VideoMessagesPR.mspx http://videomessages.live.com/portal/welcome.aspx

This is a great story on a new Surface device being used for election coverage in the US: http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/archive/2008/09/08/Live-from-MSNBC_2C00_-it_2700_s-Microsoft-Surface.aspx

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/microsofts_services_platform_takes_shape.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 Good article summarising the Bob Kelly keynote at our "Get Virtual Now" launch event. It nicely ties in virtualisation...

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Want to build your licensing capabilities and strengthen your understanding of new technologies? Ingram Micro and Microsoft would like to invite you to attend the first in a new series of Volume Licensing Boot Camps. This series of Boot Camps scheduled...

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/4289/1/1/ It was great to see the RFID infrastructure being tested in such an ambitious way at techEd last week. The above article is another piece of PR for that component of TechEd.

I did a channel press call last week ( story coming soon UPDATE story here ) and as part of the preparation I went to look up the latest data on the number of leads going to Australian partners each month through the solution finder tool. And I got a...

https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40042778 These have been highly popular and do have limited capacity, so please reserve your spot today !

I was excited by this as an initiative from Sarah Arnold in my team - we placed an ad in the Qantas mag for all the APC award winners. Well the ad is now out in the current Qantas in-flight mag. www.microsoft.com.au/apcawards  

It's been a while since I blogged this, but I wanted to remind partners of some of the resources available to help you with selling and supporting customers via our Infrastructure Optimisation model. www.microsoftio.com - key entry point for partners...

Delicate Genius did this today. It's really easy to do - just take a bunch of photos, adopting some basic rules on overlapping and angles, upload and hey presto ! http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=9cf8dbf4-e5e6-4a74-9f29-888ac76618fe Grid View:

In October this year, we will again be experiencing Daylight Savings changes in Australia. These changes can have a significant impact on business performance if not dealt with proactively. These effects can range from the incorrect time display on the...

Christian just posted this - included inline for easy reading ! " ISV Royalty LiveMeeting When? Wednesday 10 September 10.30am – 12pm EST Where? via Live Meeting What? Are you an Aussie member of the ISV Royalty Licensing Program and need help...