April 2008 - Posts
Well, we've not even conducted the first set of four free half-day architecture review sessions that we're offering for partners, known as 'Fasttrack Reviews' and already we've had to pencil four more dates into the diary from the high demand. If you'd
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The RoboChamps website has is just gone live. Robochamps is a new challenge built using the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio V2 CTP. It will provide a number of different simulated worlds each containing a particular robot. The challenge for coders
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As well as the chance to meet the ISV team at the MSDN Roadshow , if you are an ISV, then by putting your business card or contact details into our little glass bowl, you have the chance to win an Xbox. We will be drawing out a couple of lucky winners
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Yes, the UK ISV team are on the road, and we will be attending all five of the MSDN Roadshows . In fact, we were in Cardiff yesterday at the first event, and met with a lot of ISVs and other folk, all keen to hear the latest on Silverlight, the
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We've recently finished up on a 2-day Silverlight lab session for 20 partners who are currently on our Silverlight Early Adopter programme. It's great to see some of the cool things that ISVs are doing with Silverlight - especially around the media and
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The DPE ISV team are pleased to announce two new free training events are now available. Note that you need to be a Microsoft Partner to register for these. Office Live Small Business Technical Training This is your chance to enhance your Office Live
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At last week's Innovation Day, The Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft here in the UK announced the availability of a limited number of free “Fasttrack” Architectural Reviews specifically for ISVs. A "fasttrack" review is an opportunity for an ISV
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This team blog was officially announced at the UK ISV Partner Innovation Day yesterday, 10th April 2008, at the Microsoft offices in Reading. This ISV Partner Innovation Day event is being re-run in Manchester on the 24th April, so if you are an ISV and
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I’ve heard from some of you that that are developing products that you are struggling to get access to the software you want and I’m undersand that there is a general lack of awareness of a programme called “ Empower ” that is designed to make this easy
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Browsing the Silverlight 2.0 Showcase on this gray Monday morning, I was cheered up to find yet another fun little Silverlight game (even if it is strongly reminiscent of Pipe Dream for the Amiga) to add to my bookmarks folder named 'Procrastination'.
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