U.S. Dev Partners Blog

  The Microsoft patterns & practices Symposium is the event for software developers and architects to have engaging and meaningful discussions with the people creating the technologies and guidance aimed at addressing their scenarios. This 5...

Visual Studio 2010 is here! The product launched Monday and we have resources for you on the U.S. partner portal , plus new courses available to you on the Learning Plan Tool to help hone your skills on this great release. Featured Training Partnercast...

As an MSDN subscriber or BizSpark member, your membership provides you 750 hours of Windows Azure compute time per month for 8 consecutive months at no-extra cost!  That’s a total of 6000 compute hours!  An estimated retail-value of $1,264!...

As partners evolve their portfolio of offerings to include Azure, questions often arise about pricing.  Although there is a great deal of information online already, help is often needed to clarify some of the finer details.  The following information...

If you’re design skills are at all like mine, limited with no sense of style, you’ll want to take a minute to checkout .toolbox . .toolbox is a structured curriculum-based program that features two core learning tracks with materials that increase in...

Yesterday, we launched a new website with consolidated content and case studies to help you stay current on new cloud developments at Microsoft. Today twenty million businesses and over a billion people use Microsoft cloud services. We and our partners...

MIX10 is fast approaching-and still getting better! At MIX10, learn about developing applications and games for the next generation of Windows Phones. Not only will you learn about Windows Phone 7 Series,  you will hear from keynote speakers Bill...

Nike uses cloud computing to harness legions of Air Jordan fans  It’s a 5 gigapixel “social mosaic” of photos of Air Jordan shoes submitted by fans - www.jumpman23mosaic.com Fans submit photos of their shoes online Every 10 mins, Azure worker roles...

Microsoft Presents: Win with WebsiteSpark Get leads, free marketing, software and tools to build websites, and discounted hosting.  WebsiteSpark™ provides you software, tools, support and training that helps enable you to provide your customers with...

Register to attend a Live Meeting Presentation on February 25th.  Register at http://tinyurl.com/azurebiz . Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Windows , Azure , Cloud Computing , Business Practices , Partner , Neudesic , Information Concepts

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the next generation of Microsoft’s mobile phone business and everybody’s talking about it.  It all started when Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows Phone 7 Series a the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.  Did...

Customers and partners occasionally reach out for help locating information and data to support their efforts to assess product technology and market opportunity.  There’s really no secret formula for how to go about collecting this information and...

SummitCloud is a BizSpark startup that produces analysis and compliance software used by suppliers and retailers. Microsoft Partner Evangelists John McClelland and Brian Johnson sat down with SummitCloud CEO David Leibowitz to talk about SummitCloud,...

Did you miss the Azure roadshow for Microsoft Partners in December? Are you still pondering the business opportunity behind Azure? Well block off 2-hours on your calendar today to attend our Live Meeting presentation of the roadshow content on Thursday...

The MSDN Events and TechNet Events landing pages now incorporate all US Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) technical audience events so customers and partners have a comprehensive view of local and national event offerings in their community. New...

MIX is where designers and developers will learn about Microsoft’s broad web platform and tools that help bring together the clients, servers, and cloud services needed for creating great rich web applications.  They can also network with peers from...

Microsoft and the Microsoft Champion Hosting Partners present the Elite Web Optimization Event :  We currently have four events scheduled to take place in December with Applied Innovations (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida – 8Dec09), Navisite (Cambridge,...

Partner Recommendations:   Developers: Get trained and you could win a trip to the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving   Sales Staff: Don’t forget about the Winter Sales Summit to grow your selling skills   Share your thoughts...

We’ve all heard about the industry shift to the Cloud, but are you jumpstarting your Windows Azure business to be a part of it? If you are a Microsoft Partner, specifically a system integrator who builds custom developed solutions, then you are cordially...

If you are coming to the PDC we would love to see you! Please come and drop by our boot (Booth # MPS08).   Several of the members of the US DPE Evangelism team will be on hand along with members of the US Solution Partners team.  We will...

On Thursday, September 24 th Microsoft launched the WebsiteSpark Program . WebsiteSpark provides Web developers and designers with Microsoft software and solutions, as well as the training, support and market exposure they need to jump-start their web...

We just completed our first Partner Challenge of the fiscal year earlier this week and gave away several very nice prizes.  Congratulations to our 3 lucky winners! John Pattison – Info et Cetera Consulting  Chunlei Wu - Fujitsu America Nicole...

Microsoft’s U.S. Developer and Platform Evangelism organization recently launched the Microsoft Ambassador program (details below) to help our partner’s highlight their success in driving the early adoption of new and emerging application platform technology...

In mid-November, Microsoft will launch Windows Azure around the world.  In preparation for the big event, Tony Bailey , Senior Marketing Manager, Breadth Solution Partners recently took on the challenge of building his first Windows Azure application...

Partner Training Priorities: Receive up to 25% off select Microsoft Certification exams. Prepare for your exams on the Learning Plan Tool. Watch for upcoming training promotions in October.   Attend a Windows 7 Loadfest Event Near You This in-person...