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Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:42 PM
The Big Easy Partner Subsidy Program is back!
I am very happy to be able to let you know that for a limited time, that the Big Easy offer is back in the U.S. and Canada! That’s right, from now through January 2, 2010, when your customers make a qualifying purchase of Microsoft technologies and submit
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:18 AM
Microsoft October Security Bulletin Posted – Webcast tomorrow
The October Microsoft security bulletin is now posted and includes 13 separate bulletin IDs, including: MS09-050 , MS09-051 , MS09-052 , MS09-053 , MS09-054 , MS09-055 , MS09-056 , MS09-057 , MS09-058 , MS09-059 , MS09-060 , MS09-061 , & MS09-062
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:10 AM
Ask Partner – Great Partner support resource from Microsoft UK!
Here is a great Partner support initiative and resource that the Microsoft UK Team has put in place for Partners called, “ Ask Partner .” Ask Partner is a Microsoft call centre service that provides Microsoft UK Partners with pre-sales product and
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:27 AM
FREE prizes and FREE Microsoft Office giveaway in the 09/09/09 follow me contest!
Here we are on September 9 th of 2009, or 09/09/09, which happens only once every one-hundred years, so I thought we should have some fun with this. Plus, as those of you who read my Blog know, I like to hold contests every now and then to reward
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:00 AM
Yes, Outlook will be available in the next version of Office for the Mac
Last week we made an announcement that has been welcomed by many using Macs today. As you know, in the past, Microsoft Office for the Mac has included Entourage as the email client and many have asked the question of, “When will Outlook be included
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:53 AM
Watch WPC09 Sessions Via Video and Download Presentations Though DigitalWPC Today
Earlier this morning, I posted about Partner Resources From WPC09 that you can be utilizing today in your business and building into your plans moving forward. Well, another resource that many Partners have been asking about is the ability to view
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Monday, August 10, 2009 4:12 PM
Why you can’t get your Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Technical Preview to work
Earlier today, I saw a few Partners posting to a variety of online properties about how they could not get their Microsoft Office Professional 2010 activation keys for the Technical Preview program to work through Microsoft Connect. Just a quick
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Monday, August 10, 2009 3:20 PM
Yes, first pics of Microsoft retail stores starting to surface (No, pun intended)
I’ve seen postings, questions, speculations, etc. floating around in different places about actual pictures starting to show up of the announced Microsoft stores being seen. People asking, “Are they really posted?” “Where can I see them?”
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Monday, August 10, 2009 12:34 PM
Partner Learning Paths – Available on the Partner Learning Center
As you probably know, we offer a ton of online training through Live Meeting for Partners on a larger variety of topics. These can be product specific, program specific, audience specific, general topics, and much, much more. Have you ever
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Friday, July 24, 2009 9:27 AM
Microsoft Word 2007 Training Roadmap
How many of you would like to become more efficient in how you use Word? How about learning how to save time, reduce steps, and get your work done faster like mastering mail merge or keyboard shortcuts? You may want to try taking a look at the Microsoft
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:04 PM
Microsoft Outlook 2007 Training Roadmap
How many of you spend a good part of your day communicating with colleagues and others, scheduling meetings, organizing contacts, and more, all through Outlook? How many of you would like some tips and information on how to do more and become more
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:24 AM
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Released and Now Available to Download
For those of you that follow my Blog regularly or subscribe to my RSS feed , you may recall back in June when I posted about the “ Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Being Released and Now Available to Download .” As a recap, the
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:16 PM
Agenda for #WPC09 today, Wednesday, July 15th
For all of you @WPC09 this week, here’s a quick overview of the agenda for Wednesday, in case you didn’t look it up on Digital WPC : AGENDA 7:00am – 6:00pm Registration Hours 7:00am – 6:00pm Schedule Meetings using WPC Connect on www.digitalwpc.com 7:00am
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:16 AM
Check out the online videos of Office 2010 in action!
As mentioned in my, “ Microsoft Office 2010 Hits Major Milestone and Enters Technical Preview ” post earlier, the Technical Preview of Microsoft Office 2010 is now released. Yesterday at Worldwide Partner Conference, attendees were able to see Microsoft
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Monday, July 13, 2009 11:02 PM
Agenda for #WPC09 today, Tuesday, July 14th
For all of you @WPC09 this week, here’s a quick overview of the agenda for Tuesday, in case you didn’t look it up on Digital WPC : Just a quick reminder, my Contest for FREE STUFF is being continued today (Tuesday). Have you found me yet?
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