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BPOS Worldwide Announcements
We’ve just made some important announcements around availability (in new markets) and pricing for BPOS. You can read the detail here on the official press release and more on the official Online Services blog . Note that given the local alliance with Read More...
Meet the new Windows Phone
We launched Window Mobile v6.5 today – now called Windows Phone. Check out the new site for info on available devices in Australia and all the goodness in this important release for our mobile business – which itself will generate business opportunities Read More...
Microsoft Online Store Goes Live in Australia
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/321112/microsoft_sells_software_direct_via_internet?fp=16&fpid=1 See : www.microsoftstore.com.au What do you think about this as a partner ? Send me a mail – I am keen to know your views… Read More...
Bing Visual Search – how to make it work in Australia
Like the entire blogosphere , I wanted to check out Bing Visual Search for myself this morning. So I clicked on www.bing.com/visual search only to be disappointed with the following: So I quickly changed the default country to the US ands voila, works Read More...
Congrats to all partner conference award winners
CRN published the full list here – well done to all winners and finalists ! http://www.crn.com.au/News/154929,didata-four-time-winner-at-microsoft-channel-awards.aspx Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Virtualisation Partner of the Year Winner: Jasco Read More...
Australian Partner Award Finalists Announced
Sarah Arnold has just announced the finalists in our local partner awards. Congratulations to everyone recognised and good luck for the final announcements: http://blogs.msdn.com/auspartners/archive/2009/08/11/australia-partner-awards-finalist-announced.asp Read More...
Licensing 101 Breakfast Events for partners
Learn about Microsoft Licensing over breakfast, and help your business grow.  It's back by popular demand: Licensing 101.  Due to the positive feedback we received after our last licensing training session, we're running a repeat session - to Read More...
New Telstra Mobile Plan – for your customers
This is one of the latest (and first) tangible deliverables from the Telstra-Microsoft alliance , but with much more coming in the next few weeks and months ! Here is the customer-facing announcement: “Better manage your mobility costs with Telstra. If Read More...
Bing & Google via ZDNET :-)
A bit of fun here via the ZDNet Ratbags team: Read More...
WPC Highlights
Don’t forget to check out Digital WPC for all the goodies from last week’s WPC. I’ve been watching the keynotes in the past few days for example. There is lots of content up on the site including all the other sessions and importantly you can find out Read More...
New website for the “services-ready” program is live
New website for the “services-ready” program is live here: www.microsoft.com/servicesready This is a program we’ve been running for a while now, offering access to packaged IP for partners, for you to deliver solutions to customers in a lower risk and Read More...
Congratulations Computercorp! Winners of the “I’m Open” initiative
As part of the recent Microsoft “I’m Open” campaign for Resellers , Microsoft ran a promotion where each new Open Value customer agreement signed between February and April 2009  earned a reseller an entry into a draw to win AUS$20,000!  We Read More...
Voices for Innovation – have your say
Education, healthcare, innovation, the environment, the digital economy are all key policy issues at the heart of the political agenda for governments -  local, state and federal.  This means that the Australian technology industry will be affected Read More...
Xbox announcements - Project Natal
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jun09/06-01E3PR.mspx I was watching the BBC videos on Natal yesterday – an amazing development in interactive gaming – check it out here. it’s amazing to watch (see the second video). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8077369.st Read More...
See the Bing Test Drive on Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/Bing-Test-Drive-Microsofts-new-search-engine/ Lots of internet/blogger chatter of course on our new search brand announcement last week. I thought this video test drive, done in the informal style of Channel 9 , Read More...
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