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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Chris Bowen's Blog : Partners</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Partners/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Partners</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Article on Microsoft's Partner Solutions</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2008/09/16/article-on-microsoft-s-partner-solutions.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:53:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8954381</guid><dc:creator>cbowen</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/comments/8954381.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8954381</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8954381</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="aspprologo" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/ArticleonMicrosoftsPartnerSolutions_EC49/aspprologo_3.gif" width="166" height="34" /&gt; A copy of the June &lt;em&gt;asp.netPro&lt;/em&gt; magazine found it's way to me and I found a nice article by Auri Rahimzadeh describing Microsoft's various offerings to the partner community.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Blogging the link because I tend to get asked about this often:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://aspnetpro.com/newsletterarticle/2008/06/asp200806ar_l/asp200806ar_l.asp"&gt;asp.netPRO - &amp;quot;Microsoft's Partner Solutions&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The article touches on the following programs:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://partner.microsoft.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Partner Program" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/ArticleonMicrosoftsPartnerSolutions_EC49/Partner%20Program_1.png" width="222" height="42" /&gt;Microsoft Partner Program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/programoverview/certifiedpartner"&gt;Certified Partners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/programoverview/goldcertpartner"&gt;Gold Certified Level&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://partner.microsoft.com/US/40016455?PS=3"&gt;Action Pack Subscription&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/40011351?PS=3"&gt;Empower for ISV's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Worth taking a look, especially if you're consulting, considering becoming a Partner, and/or creating software for resale.&amp;#160; These programs can help you save plenty of money on software and also help establish your brand.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;-Chris&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8954381" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Partners/default.aspx">Partners</category></item></channel></rss>