Microsoft has just launched the new “Windows 7 Buyer’s Guide” at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/windows7.aspx . This is a recommended tool for are partners, for those of you guys in the ISV Royalty program and all Volume Licensing...

Summary What: Microsoft sponsored certification for Managed ISVs in Singapore When: Promotion runs until June 30, 2010 Details In an effort to encourage skills upgrading, we’re launching the Get Trained and Get Certified promotion exclusively for developers...

I realize that not a lot of people have heard about the ISV Royalty Program here in Singapore. The program is available to ISVs and what this allows you to do is license Microsoft products as part of your unified solution, that way, you can be your customers...

We’ve restarted the ISV Innovation Day series here in Singapore which we held at the SMU Admin Building last 27th January 2010. We wanted to share with our partners in the ISV and custom development space where we are seeing as opportunities in our customer...

The SQL Server Team is pleased to announce the release of the November Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 R2!  This is our second public CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2 for community download and evaluation, following up from our prior...

Here’s a great resource for Microsoft Partners. I’m sure at one point or another, you guys have wished for a way to demo your applications to your customers without having to deal with virtual machines and the complex setups that come with them. If this...

We have some courses available on Channel 9 for self paced learning: Windows Azure - http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Azure/ Windows Server HPC - http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/HPCLearningCourse/ Identity Developer Training course - http...

I know how we all love contests: Buy any MS Press book and get a chance to win an XBOX 360 Elite! Check it out http://www.iaffinity.com/contest/edm/sg/

Our Channel 9 Learning Center has released some great resources for both Office Development and SharePoint Development. SharePoint 2010 Developer SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using...

If you’re an ISV looking to get an edge by letting customers know that your app is ready and available for Windows 7, we recommend checking out our “Compatible with Windows 7” logo program. It’s fast to test and free to submit! Earning the logo provides...

They’ve announced the winners of the 14th Annual Computerworld Singapore Readers Choice Awards and Microsoft has some awards to take home: Product Name Category Microsoft SQL Server Database Management System Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...

You’ve probably heard inaccurate stories following a report by a British company claiming that customers who deployed the Windows 7 November Security updates have experienced the so-called “Black Screens” that would render the system unbootable and unusable...

Microsoft has a rich collection of resources available online so we’ll be surfacing some of the more relevant content resources for ISVs through the ISV Resource Highlights series Silverlight 4 Training Course We’ve recently announced the availability...

  ProxiHomes is a revolutionary property search service which allows you to find properties in any way you want and anywhere you are. We’re not talking about just browsers. There's more. We are everywhere. Now search is not constrained to your browsers...

We’ve just recently launched a localized MSDN page filled with Singapore Content. Check the new site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-sg/default.aspx . Here' you’ll find links to local blogs, news about upcoming Microsoft events, and of course content...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Singapore/InnovationNEXT/14319176125 I want to get a hold on partners who are eager to start building the next generation web applications. Innovation.NEXT() is a program we are running for dev companies who are eager to...

Check out these videos of some of the ISVs and VAPs that we've worked with the past few months. We got these guys enabled on Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 and here they are talking about the applications and solutions they...

Here are the slides from the presentations on Partner Tech Day.

"Almost every aspect of what drives the business is changing in some way, shape or form." - Ray Ozzie, CTO, Microsoft Over the last 30 years, the dramatic advances in technology have revolutionized the way information is created, stored, shared, and used...

Save the date on 2.22.2008 for this quarter's Partner Tech Day. The worldwide web is fast becoming the "wild wide web" so we'll be spending one whole day talking to you guys about the upcoming technologies Microsoft has that will help you tame it. Here...

For those who are interested in the slides for Partner Tech Day held last Dec. 11, 2007 you can download the slides here:

For all our partners building mobile solutions, we've just launched a site to help enable our partners. Check out the new site at INNOVATE ON Windows Mobile

For those of you who can't wait to get started on getting up to speed on Visual Studio 2008, here's a VPC that contains the VS 2008 Training Kit that you can use to skill up. Download details: Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Vista)

For those who can't wait to get their hands on SQL Server 2008, you can download this new patch for VS 2005. Can't wait for the team to get VS 2008 support out, I'm sure it will be soon ^_^ Download details: Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008

The launch of Windows Server 2008 is fast approaching so here are some resources to help you guys ramp up on your application development on Windows Server 2008: INNOVATE ON Windows Server www.innovateonwindowsserver.com Development portal that includes...