April 2008 - Posts
http://www.officelabs.com/Pages/Default.aspx "Welcome to Microsoft Office Labs! This site is a proving ground for ideas that come from regular employees and interns who work anywhere in Microsoft. Most of the code prototypes are developed by the Office
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Via the SBSC blog : "Want to maximise your revenue and build stronger customer relationships? Then join us in our upcoming Volume Licensing Webinar on Thursday 15 May from 10.30am until 11.00am EST. Here you can learn how to grow your profits whilst adding
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https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/program/pmcommsector This has just gone live in the portal - community based content for partners who sell into telco and media and for the hosting community. Live meeting presentation on how to leverage it all
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http://www.bigbrother.com.au/live-stream-sl.htm
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We would like to invite you to the Showcase Presentation for the Microsoft Queensland Spotlight on Mobility Program at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Thursday 5 June 2008 . The Program is a competitive initiative amongst Microsoft Queensland Partners
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" REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has completed settlement of its tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions. Microsoft’s plans to acquire FAST were originally
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We have scaled up the great resource previously called Managed Newsgroups. Now called Partner Online Technical Communities we have a number of community- and product-focussed newsgroups, monitored and supported by Microsoft support professionals. Start
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http://www.microsoft.com/softwareplusservices/ As the S+S momentum builds internally I think it's fair to say that we (i.e. Microsoft) need to work harder at telling the story to help customers and partners understand this important topic in their own
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Christian has published info on the forthcoming Hosting Days for partners: " Hosting Days Australia Hosting Days is hitting the road. Choose from two tracks, Services or Solutions, before coming together for an afternoon of Business focused content. Visit
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Well the web is buzzing with the news on Mesh ( www.mesh.com ). Here are some of the key links: http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/04/22/279.aspx http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/04/23/live-mesh-it-s-everything-we-told-you-about-and-a-lot-more.aspx
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I learnt yesterday of an amazing case study on some work we have (MCS and a partner) done with a government department on helping with environmental management. This will be written up over the next few weeks - watch this space for a compelling story
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Well most of my team is now involved in the detailed planning for Australia Partner Conference . We are really excited as things are beginning to take shape - the location is going to be even better than Hamilton Island, and we have some great content
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Good spot by Steve Clayton http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/16/directions-on-microsoft-free-chapter-on-microsoft-online.aspx " I like Directions on Microsoft – they sometimes explain our products and strategies better than we do so they’re
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This campaign is launching this week - www.microsoft.com.au/wevegotaguy The promotion will be launched to customers via numerous communication vehicles and will drive traffic to the above website - from there customers will be able to find Small Business
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"Microsoft has launched a Partner Linked Program to accompany its Corporate Internship Program in a move to help alleviate the ICT skills shortage." See the full case study here You might remember last year we announced our program to help our intern
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My good friend Mark Harrison in MS UK has just updated his Sharepoint Overview slides . This is a great asset for Sharepoint partners to have handy - semi-technical but high-level enough to tell a platform story in a sales engagement.
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There was a significant update to our VE/Live Maps platform this week. If you are a partner interested in this subject go to key blog articles as below for all the details: http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!14129.entry http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/04/11/new-virtual-earth-api-release-virtual-earth-6-1.aspx
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix08/index.aspx
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Are you interested in a 100% subsidised training course from Microsoft? We’d like to hear why. Tell us in 25 words or less why you would like to take up this complimentary training offer and the answers judged to be the best and most creative will receive
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This is a brand new marketing campaign to help drive awareness of some amazing things that one of our community partners Work Ventures has done - helping young people in Australia get off to a better start through IT training and skills. http://www.microsoft.com/australia/about/onmyway/Default.msp
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Via the ITPro Australia blog: "We will be having 2 Windows Vista SP1 TechNet Update Events in Sydney and Melbourne for IT Professionals. Details below. Session 1 - Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – Updates and Improvements! Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
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https://partner.microsoft.com/global/trainingevents/wwpartnerconference And note there is an RSS Feed you can subscribe to stay informed.
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Via Christian : " Details on ReMix Australia have been announced. The details are: 1 day in 2 cities 20 th May in Sydney 22 nd May in Melbourne Opening Keynote followed by 2 streams (technical track is owned by Michael Kordahi and the creative track is
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I was invited to participate in a CRN roundtable today on Green IT with some resellers and other vendors. I am aware of some great partner solutions that ultimately help the customers reduce or manage their environmental impact. I'd love to hear of more
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We have been investing in the mining customers base driving demand through to partners and helping some partners get skilled up to sell into that industry. Part of this effort includes a new website for customers and partners which has just gone live:
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Thanks to all the partners in Australia who supported this - we believe this is great news for the channel. "Final vote appears overwhelmingly in favor; input from 87 national bodies contributed to an improved specification. REDMOND, Wash. — April 1,
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"Today marks the release of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 - a set of tools for IT Pros managing IT environments for companies who have purchased MDOP plus Windows Software Assurance agreements with Microsoft. There are two key product
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