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 this day event, there'll be experienced people available...

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 performance - Windows 8 boasts vast performance improvements...

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 will focus on the latest features and capabilities...

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 new products to be more successful in the market...

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 more about building applications on the cloud...

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 business. Sales cycle times have been dramatically...

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 Course will help you understand how to build enterprise...

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 on the UK Tech.Days home page . § London...

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 thinking about SaaS and the Windows Azure Platform...

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 put into place for the lifecycle of your application...

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 free online event runs from 12.00 – 2.00pm and...

As part of the Britain Works , Microsoft’s DPE and Citizenship teams have been working with training company QA and e-skills UK to develop a year-long Modern Apprenticeship in Software Development . The apprentice programme offers employers an alternative route for on-boarding their next generation talent...

With the increasing customer interest in cloud based solutions it is important to consider how your own Intellectual property could be brought to the cloud and made available as a revenue generating service. This is a series of short videos from the one-day conference – Journey to the Cloud. The videos...

Bloggers who write about ISV “stuff”. And if you were wondering what an “ISV” is … well, it means “Independent Software Vendor” and will be the subject of a future post UK ISV Team Blog – my teams blog UK … Continue reading →