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 Office and SharePoint Blog . Grand prize winner...

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...

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 Available to customers, a locally redundant...

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...

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 businesses and we have seen a number of interesting...

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...

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 are two of the sessions and descriptions that we would...

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...

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...

Technically there are lots of way to do this already (including AzureWatch which I blogged on back in June) but it was great to see this week details on what we are working on as part of the new Windows … Continue reading →

I just checked and we are down to our last couple of spaces for this workshop. Check out the full details. P.S. We will be repeating the workshop monthly but we haven’t yet advertised the dates. Related Links: Sign up … Continue reading →