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Innovation for Partners in the UK

To help ISV's and custom development partners innovate.

March 2007 - Posts

Free Open XML Developer Workshop in Reading, 30th April - 1st May 2007
There is a lot of interest from partners around Open XML, the new file format for Office System 2007, especially those partners that have ever tried to programmatically create or manipulate files - it was hard! its now a lot easier, and to help partners Read More...
Windows Vista - an OS with solid security
I admit, the "I'm a PC. I'm a Mac" skit with the Windows Vista security dialog box warnings was pretty funny (well done) and I laughed quite a bit - despite the fact that asking users if they want to run potentially dangerous software is generally a good Read More...
Hold up, I don't even know what SaaS means
Everyone on our team is thinking about SaaS and what it means to our partners. This is a particular area of interest for Eric , who has the architectural background and painful memories learning from the ASP-days to make sense of it all and ensure we're Read More...
Free technical seminars for ISVs wanting to know more about the Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML document format
The Microsoft Developer and Platform Group will be hosting two half day technical sessions aimed at Microsoft partners, especially ISVs, focusing on Microsoft Office Open XML, the new document format for Microsoft Office 2007. Theses sessions will cover Read More...
SaaS is not a software revolution
That's right - SaaS (Software as a Service) is not a software revolution. Someone from a large Internet company recently referred to Microsoft's software as "old school" because it runs on the desktop. Heck, even some of our own executives have implied Read More...
Real World WPF videos
If you are developing with Windows Presentation Foundation, check out our new series of screencasts and videos on Channel9, known as Real World WPF. The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months Read More...
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