If you haven't heard the news (or seen the site) yet, the Microsoft Partner Program is evolving into the Microsoft Partner Network . As part of this change, we've completed the overhaul of the Partner site. If you've been following along (see details...

The first look at the design direction for the Microsoft Partner Portal. ...

An early look at the MS Partner Portal homepage redesign. We are looking for feedback from the community to help create an effective and useful site to drive your business....

We're live...a little before 2/9 PST.

I know there is no "beta 2" tag, but for those of you who've been visiting the site regularly you'll notice the updates. Here's what I am sending out to a few folks regarding these updates, hope you like the updates. Kudos to Archetype for the great...

Sorry everyone who is having problems accessing the site with the Silverlight 2 RTW plugin. We are working on fixing this, but due to some complications the problems wont be resolved for 2 weeks.

I am at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, and I want to offer up two opportunities. 1 - I'll be showing off the site a lot while I am here, so anyone who posts a video in the next couple days has a good chance of some good visability. 2 - If any of...

August is my month for vacation, so I applogize for the lack of updates the last few weeks. We haven't been completely unproductive though, we've been doing some bug bashing and working on the "Create" video editing tool (hope to go live with in a...

Not only does Digital Forum take advantage of the efficient green hosting solutions available from Rackspace, but we now are showing off a great solution from a partner helping other companies improve thier "Carbon Footprint" Check it out:

10/14 UPDATE: With the release of Silverlight 2.0, all apps built with the beta require additional work to be compatible with the latest code base. For the time being, the Unified Search prototype will be unavailable for testing. After 2 weeks of debugging...

Update on our bug bash. Deep linking and embedding are now resolving just fine.

Posting sites early under the "preview" tag are great for getting people excited and generating buzz. Unfortunatly, sites in "preview" also usually have a few bugs that can be quite bothersome and need to be hit with the zapper. A couple bugs that...

As our film crew was busy pumping out videos with partners, the press found out what we were up to in partner labs. Check out what they are saying around the site. eChannelLine CNET eWeek

We finally have the Silverlight UI complete for the Unified Search prototype and are working on deploying the code to the live servers for partners to test. As we scramble to get the final pieces of the Unified Search interface ready for in-person focus...

Monday July 7 th is the official day we’re going to turn on Digital Forum at the Worldwide Partner Conference Preview. I want everyone to know that much more is coming (you can actually see some of the future functionality in the demo experience included...

Metaliq and I connected back in the fall of 2007 to begin working on the project, but due to business justifications, yada-yada-yada, we didn’t end up beginning the project until February 2008. Fast forward through legal sign-offs, design reviews, hosting...

When we discuss how we can improve the Microsoft Partner Program Portal in our future planning discussions the topic of "Ease of Doing Business" comes up. While here inside the office buildings at Microsoft we have our ideas of how to do this, we also...

My role at Microsoft is… Actually that is not a simple sentence to complete, but here goes: Broadly I engage in marketing opportunities that touch Microsoft Partners or potential partners in emerging business areas. To be compelling in this space it is...

Microsoft announced a product called Silverlight back at the Mix conference in the spring of 2007. As a part of this some select partners were offered the opportunity to begin developing on the platform early and showcase their work at the conference...

With a design direction achieved, the team has started development work to prove the desired functionality can be built in Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Our goal early in the process to validate that SL 2 Beta 1 is indeed the proper technology choice. The major...

While finalizing designs for the Silverlight UX, the development team has stepped up and created a ASP.NET client to retrieve results from the Unified Search web service. After two weeks development the "lite" client is complete. The ASP.NET client...

While we do not have official sign-off on the design yet, I'm excited give you an sneak peak of the upcoming Silverlight interface that we will be prototyping in June. In this image, you can see: An updated, clean design as compared to...

We went code complete on the Unified Search web service at the end of March and now we are moving forward full force on a SilverLight User Interface layer. The goal of this project is to bring the search results from various sites that relate to the...