Have an awesome idea for an app on SharePoint or Office? If you live in the US, UK, Canada, Australia or India, build and submit your app and you could win big prizes in the Apps for Office and SharePoint Developer Contest just announced on the Apps for...

Want to get up to speed quickly with Windows Azure? The Windows Azure Developer Camp will take you from knowing nothing about the Cloud to actually having deployed a simple application to the Cloud and made it available on the public Internet. During...

Sign up to a Windows 8 Camp to make sure your app is in the Windows Store by the time Windows 8 hits the market. The upcoming Camps are designed to show you how to build a Windows 8 app and get it published in the Windows Store. These events are hands...

Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 was announced on 31 st May, 2012.  The RC of Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 and are now available for download Visual Studio product website . As part of RC we’ve...

Last week Windows Azure announced some exciting changes bringing together the best of on-premises and cloud computing. Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, and Web Sites are now available as new preview services for Windows Azure. SQL Reporting is now Generally...

Windows 8 gives your customers plenty of reasons to upgrade including enhanced performance, security, and versatility. Here are some of the reasons you should make sure you application is there when your customers move to Windows 8. Improved speed and...

If you building or considering building applications for the cloud, then the 22 nd June is a date for the diary.  It’s a big day for Windows Azure as the first full day, multi-track conference supported by Microsoft and London Windows Azure User...

Join an online Q&A session with the UK Visual Studio team and industry experts on what’s new in Visual Studio 11. This event is aimed at those in software development; from Project Managers and Scrum Masters to developers and testers. The discussion...

Innovation is key to both business growth as well as economic growth. It is therefore important that business growth strategy include innovation. Adrian Clarke, Technology Strategist at Microsoft has created a program to help our partners create and deliver...

Consumerisation of IT, multiple devices and the ability to use the cloud to scale and grow your business in new ways has created new challenges and opportunities for all of us. Cloud applications and SaaS have changed the way our ISVs think about their...

Due to popular demand we will be running 2 versions of the Windows Azure Bootcamps online! This is a great opportunity for those of you who were interested but unable to attend the live Windows Azure Bootcamps or anyone else who is interested in learning...

Find out how ISVs are using Azure to grow their businesses. Watch this great video where Jim Chapman, CEO of Retail Manager Solutions, talks about their move from on-premises software to the cloud and then tells us how Windows Azure has changed their...

Your business could be impacted by the Government Consultation on Open Standard. The consultation finishes on 3 rd May but there are still opportunities to find out more and make sure your voice is heard. Microsoft will be running roundtables on the 24...

Join us on the 9 th & 10 th of May for a 2 day session in London. The session is designed for Solution Developers and Database Developers with experience of SQL Server environments.) - Register Now The SQL Server 2012 Update for Developers Training...

WPC provides ISV partners with high value opportunities to help grow your business and provide the insights you need for future success: Understand the direction of the Microsoft business, including the product roadmap along with innovations such as Windows...

Take a look at the events, content and toolkits to help you build applications for Windows 8: Join the Windows 8 Camp This is a hands-on day of activity where you bring your laptop and write your first Windows 8 code. You can see all of these events...

Join the Windows Azure Bootcamp ! During the day our Windows Azure & Cloud Computing evangelists will take you from knowing nothing about the cloud to actually writing some code, deployed on to a cloud service and make a simple application available...

Register for the Partner Business Briefings taking place in Birmingham, London, Manchester and Edinburgh during April. View the full details of the day, locations and the full agenda . There are a couple of great track sessions available to you. Here...

The release of Visual Studio 11 Beta brings the best experiences to developers for Windows 8 as well as building on the great work we started with Visual 2010 building towards a mature ALM Solution unparalleled in the market. Its goal is to helps developers...

I’ve just had confirmation that I will be off to Toronto in July to spend a weak immersing myself in our latest musings to our fantastic partners on Windows 8, Windows Azure, Private Cloud and more… whilst also having the opportunity to meet and chat...

We have had some great feedback on the Six Weeks of Windows Azure sessions. If you missed out on the opportunity to join us you can watch the recordings that are of interest to you. The below sessions cover both the technical and commercial aspects when...

Bruce Kyle, Architect Evangelist in the US has pulled together a great series of blog posts which provide a look into how you can secure your application in Windows Azure . The series describes the threats, how you can respond, what processes you can...

Join this series of UK Tech.Days Online Conferences focused on helping you understand Windows Azure from the ground up. For more information visit the MSDN Blog post. Sessions include: Tuesday, 20 March - A Newcomer’s Introduction to Windows Azure . This...

Something I am keen to see more of on this blog is guest posts by “people in the know” on topics relevant to UK software companies. One such “person in the know” is Nicci Cox of Grey Matter. Eric How to make more profit on the Microsoft Platform by Nicci...

My group is laying on a a three city (London, Manchester and Edinburgh) tour which focuses on the Windows 8 opportunities for developers. These are one day events providing accelerated learning on Windows 8 application development. More details on the ...