U.S. Dev Partners Blog

Short of a miracle, no one expects the technology sector, including the company closest to my heart, Microsoft, to  outperform during one of the worst economies since the great depression.  At the close of the bell on Thursday, April 23rd, Microsoft...

One of Windows Azure’s goals is to provide support for a variety of languages including Java, PHP and Ruby.  If you are a PHP developer, and are interested in testing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure please click the link to the PHP SDK home page –...

Internet Explorer 8 Download for… Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=79154fb4-c610-4a1e-811d-dfe0f1dd84d1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Edition or Windows XP Professional 64...

At the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans this July, Microsoft will announce changes to the partner program that will improve our partners' ability to serve their customers.  As Microsoft Partner Evangelists we regularly talk with...

Last month, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) . Internet Explorer 8 RC1 makes great strides in both features and performance improvements that provide faster  day-to-day browsing, and is...

Windows 7 information sites   Windows 7 Landing Page   Windows 7 Enterprise Products Landing Page Windows 7 On the Microsoft Partner Portal   Windows 7 Product Review Guide Windows Team Blog Windows 7 Engineering Blog IT Pros - Springboard...

Overview This two day training is designed to teach developers how to create Line of Business (LOB) applications using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).   Day One is an introduction to the WPF graphics subsystem, the core UI services -styling...

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...

Always on the lookout for a little side humor to break up the day, we recently came across a video spoof aimed at UK partners to raise awareness of the UK Microsoft Partner Network. View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX8uzcVl5wY After several...

What? You haven’t taken Microsoft’s Partner Challenge yet?  Huh, you never heard of it? Well there could be 4 reasons why you never heard of it before now: You’re not a member of Partner Huddle on Facebook Nor, are you a member of our other group...

Ok Development Partners, it’s time to rock with Windows 7.  With RC1 coming soon to a download center near  you, what better way is there to begin thinking hard about Windows 7 development than a series of 10 online courses to get you pumped...

A collection of 4 Virtual Labs are now up on the TechNet site and will allow end users to fire up a lab and get a deep dive into PHP on Windows. Title Event Detail TechNet Virtual Lab: IIS 7.0 Access Control Features for PHP Applications http://go.microsoft...

Access to free online training is critically important to our Solution Provider community, regardless if the economy is on the upswing or downturn.  We continue to listen to your feedback and are happy to announce that ISV Innovation has moved to...

Last week Microsoft released the results of a recent benchmark study highlighting a significant cost savings of running WebSphere on Windows on HP Blades as opposed to running the same workload on IBM’s Power 570 hardware.   This savings is...

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,...

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...

The Official Blog of the Microsoft U.S. Partner Evangelism Team! If you are a Microsoft Partner specializing in providing unique customer solutions through software development and application architecture then this  blog is for you. Here you will...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!...