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Friday, February 29, 2008 2:37 PM

Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure Webcasts

We are not short of content these days - why not try one or two of our Windows Server 2008 technical webcasts nicely grouped together by my colleagues in Microsoft EMEA. Windows Server 2008 Event Page: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/event.aspx?id=87
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Friday, February 29, 2008 8:13 AM

Does your company subscribe to the Microsoft Action Pack?

Lots of partners I meet in the UK take advantage of the Microsoft Action Pack (For £199 plus VAT you get oodles of software!!!). From March 1 st , all of you renewing your subscriptions must take a course and pass an assessment to renew. The good
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Friday, February 29, 2008 8:05 AM

.NET Framework Source Code Available

I first blogged on this back in January but based on all my meetings in Feb, very few ISVs seem to know about it. Lets expand a little. The most often repeated reason I’ve been given for wanting access to the Microsoft source code is for debugging
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:59 PM

.NET adoption is coming along rather nicely - thanks folks!

2008 has included a number of conversations with ISVs along the lines of "We are currently Java but we think .NET might be a better choice for us. Can you help?" and "We are currently using old technology X and are considering changing
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:46 AM

Are you a UK ISV with something great to say about Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008?

At the moment there is a lot of activity in Microsoft UK to gather up all the great stories from our early adopters we have been working with - everything from videos to case studies to short sound bytes. Which made me realise that we must be missing
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:31 AM

Blogs never cease to surprise me...

I was just skimming my blog feeds in Feedghost (very nice tool by the way - and now has a great free version) and came across a blog entry by a fellow Microsoftee Clare which included this picture which pops up from time to time. In 2008 I am working
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:30 PM

Free Online Silverlight Training

It is becoming increasingly common for UK ISVs to ask us about Silverlight. Which is a good thing as I have previously blogged about why ISVs should care about Silverlight and these are important discussions which can impact technology choices which may
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:17 PM

Benchmarking is just a lot easier these days...

When I first joined Microsoft in 1996 I was lucky enough to work with Compaq to create a SQL Server scalability lab for ISVs. I learnt a lot about both SQL Server and how to run scalability exercises that year. I also learnt that in such exercises you
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:16 PM

Resources for Windows High Performance Computing

The following resources should help you get up to speed on Windows HPC Server 2008 and high performance computing in general - whether you prefer to read, listen, watch or travel. First up, two events in March. Events: London, March 27th 2008: In the
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