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15 October 2008
Live Services Jumpstart
Spotted this on Angus Logan’s blog about deep technical training on our Live services. Get in quick as I reckon this will fill up fast. Although level 300 and beyond tends to be too deep for me, the agenda looks good. Look forward to
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14 October 2008
Innovation Days 2008
The dates for our ISV road show have now been published and we’re coming to a city near you. What? “Get your feet on the ground, head in the clouds” The day will concentrate on important announcements released at October’s Professional Developer's Conference
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22 September 2008
Innovation Days, November 2008
We are about to announce our next ISV Innovation Day road show across Australia scheduled for the end of November 2008. The main theme this year is Software plus Services , which I’m sure won’t surprise many of you. We’ll be using content
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18 July 2008
Going to the Australia Partner Conference?
It's been a while since I've blogged with lots happening at work and home becoming a Dad. Another fiscal year has come and gone and my first year in Australia has come to an end. I'm pleased to say they haven't asked me to leave yet so I'm around for
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16 January 2008
Enabling People Through Technology
New research has been released which demonstrates the business benefit of enabling people through technology. Betsy Frost (Microsoft's Information Worker Group general manager) discusses the implications of this research by "The Economist Intelligence
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13 December 2007
10 Coolest Features in Windows Server 2008
Good article on the top 10 features in the new Windows Server... almost all of which are directly beneficial to hosters. http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3716276 Technorati Tags: Software + Services , ServerWatch , Windows Server 2008
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12 December 2007
ISV from Mars, Hosters from Venus: if you liked to book, you might like the movie
If you read Gianpaolo Carraro's " ISVs are from Mars, Hosters from Venus " whitepaper, Eugenio in his team presents " Nortwind Hosting ", a concept demo showing what an Software + Services / SaaS ISV experience could be when interacting with a hoster.
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12 December 2007
Architecture Journal Reader
Anna blogged that the new Architecture Journal Reader has been released at the Strategic Architect Forum (SAF). Cool as I've been talking about Software + Services & WPF a lot recently and this reader delivers an visually exciting, immersive, and
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08 November 2007
ISVs are from Mars, and Hosters are from Venus
Reading Gianpaolo's blog , I noticed they have published a white paper which covers the the sometime quirky relationships that exist between ISVs wanting to deliver their software as a service and Hosters. Here is an excerpt from the paper: The Impetus
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24 October 2007
Web Central Roadshow
Australia’s largest web and application hosting company, WebCentral, who are also the 2007 Microsoft Asia Pacific Hosting Partner of the year, will soon be kicking off their annual Partner Roadshow. As occurred last year, Microsoft will be presenting
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23 October 2007
Virtual Earth Partner Briefings
If you are interested in the latest features and capability of the Virtual Earth platform, you should attend this briefing. Event: Virtual Earth - Real Revenue for Partners When/Where: Brisbane 12th November – Microsoft - Level 9, Waterfront Place 1 Eagle
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24 September 2007
Resources for the Office Developer
Thanks to Darren Strange for circulating this list: BDC High-Level Click-through demo on BDC and Excel Services Lower-Level Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Microsoft Office System Office Interactive Developer Map Latest MOSS
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10 August 2007
Software + Services Presentation
I have almost finished my presentation for the Australia Partner Conference. I've just been told that over 100 have registered, so there goes my plan on secretly moving the meeting to the beach. Unless anybody knows of a large pub on the Island? My gadget
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04 July 2007
Windows Live has Renewed Focus on Software + Services
I missed this external Q&A with Chris Jones (Corp VP seen above who heads up the Live Experience Program Management group) up on Microsoft PressPass: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/jun07/06-26windowslive.mspx . The Q&A includes
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02 July 2007
Is the SaaS Model a Friend or Foe?
By Jeff Kaplan : http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=123007AIPL56&page=1 Interesting article published on CIO Today about the pro's and con's of the SaaS model... with a quote from our CEO, Steve Ballmer: "Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer,
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