News & Views for Australian SBSCs

Corp are offering a chance to win one of 10 mobile devices every month as part of the new mobility part of the Technology Assessment! So now, that means the new Technology Assessment offers you the chance to get the following: * Free copy of SBS R2 for...

I've just come back from a week at Building Number 122 at Microsoft Corp in Redmond - despite the fact that Redmond reminded me very much of the Truman Show :-) the visit was definitely worthwhile. I finally put faces to names of some great people who...

Another one from the Cool Stuff file :-) Video: Who Wants to be a Millionaire

Microsoft Research: Driving Innovation for 15 Years Date: 21 February 2007 Time: 4.00-5.30pm Venue: Microsoft Australia, Theatre 3, Ground Floor, 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, TO REGISTER: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032329316&Culture...

A few SBSCers have been asking me about Microsoft Financing and how it works. You can check out the website here You'll need to register to be able to offer it to your customers but once you are you can offer it on deals above $3000 as long as they include...

Microsoft's Retail Strategy and what does it mean for SBSCs? Event Date: Wednesday 7 February Presenter: Eric Ligman & Rex Bloesser Event Time: 8:30 AM (Australian time) Duration: 60 minutes Description: You've seen the Press announcements about this...

Corp have just launched the updated Technology Assessment Toolkit . It's a great update and includes not only Small Business Server, but also assessments on the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows Mobile, and Windows Vista technologies. More importantly...

I've had a lot of questions from SBSCers about Action Pack downgrade rights - we've had some guidance from Corp around this and it looks like you can stay on XP if you want to! See the official message from Corp: “We received several communications from...