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Cloud Computing - Windows Azure Services Platform
On October 27th October at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft officially...
Author: msftisvs Date: 10/30/2008
Good blogs for PDC2008 happenings this week!
Here are a few blogs that we wanted to share about what is happening this week at PDC....
Author: msftisvs Date: 10/29/2008
Article from Harvard Business Review
We recently noticed this article and think its great information to consider in these economic...
Author: msftisvs Date: 10/20/2008
Second Shot Now Offers Two Incentives to Get Certified!
Today, Second Shot provides the benefit of a free retake if you fail a Microsoft Certification exam....
Author: msftisvs Date: 10/15/2008
Get Hands-on With Virtualization—on Us
We just learned about the US Virtualization Roadshow and thought this information would be valuable...
Author: msftisvs Date: 10/02/2008
Microsoft and Teradata Collaboration at Teradata Partners User Conference
Microsoft and Teradata will be collaborating at the Teradata Partners User Conference in Las Vegas...
Author: msftisvs Date: 10/01/2008
Windows Team Seeking Developer input
The Windows Application Platform (WAP) team needs your input. We would value hearing from developers...
Author: msftisvs Date: 09/29/2008
New PDC2008 Announcements
The PDC team just made a few new announcements on the PDC web site that we thought would interest...
Author: msftisvs Date: 09/25/2008
Planet Technologies - Four Time Winner of Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year Award
Planet Technologies Vice President, Andrew Norris recently visited Redmond to talk with Channel 9...
Author: msftisvs Date: 09/24/2008
Turning Innovation Into Action
With all the technologies and products that Microsoft offers, how do partners use these products to...
Author: msftisvs Date: 09/22/2008
Coroware CTO Talks About Future Of Robotics
Recently Channel 9 host Charles Torre had an opportunity to talk with David Hyams, Coroware’s Chief...
Author: msftisvs Date: 09/19/2008
Windows Vista 64-bit Adoption Growing
The installed base of 64-bit Windows Vista PCs, as a percentage of all Windows Vista systems, has...
Author: msftisvs Date: 08/21/2008
Get Your Head above the Clouds at PDC2008
Have you ever attended a Microsoft Professional Developers Conference? It’s an event so packed with...
Author: msftisvs Date: 08/01/2008
B2B Leads - Get Some!
It doesn't ever change. In the 5 years I've been in partner marketing at Microsoft I've been part of...
Author: msftisvs Date: 07/28/2008
PDC 2008 to feature S+S, Silverlight, Live Mesh and more
This year, the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 will be held October 27-30 in...
Author: msftisvs Date: 07/11/2008
ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08 – Voting Now Open
We were recently notified that the Microsoft on ISVs blog has been nominated for the 2008...
Author: msftisvs Date: 07/09/2008
Silverlight, WPF and the Presentation of Healthcare Information
A lot has happened since the 1980's and Healthcare has sure seen its share of promises of data...
Author: msftisvs Date: 06/26/2008
Software + Services - Opportunities and Challenges for Global ISVs
ISV Challenges with S+S GISVs that are embarking on creating a software plus services offering by...
Author: msftisvs Date: 06/24/2008
Autodesk Geospacial Solutions and SQL Server 2008
Last time I talked about how two of our partners are creating a positive impact to our world. We...
Author: msftisvs Date: 06/23/2008
Microsoft Stopped in at INTEROP 2008: IT Conference and Exposition
When Microsoft was in Las Vegas at the INTEROP 2008 conference (organized by CMP Media) in May, we...
Author: msftisvs Date: 06/16/2008
ISVs deliver on User Experience
Hi Folks, My name is Baptiste. Don’t be surprised by my first name, I am not an evangelist (neither...
Author: msftisvs Date: 06/10/2008
Go for Gold....
So, you’ve managed to get a meeting with the Financial Services vertical lead in Microsoft’s NY/NJ...
Author: msftisvs Date: 06/04/2008
Introducing “A Startup A Week”
I recently got a chance to grab a camera, step into the real world, and take part in a fun video...
Author: msftisvs Date: 05/20/2008
Announcing Ingenuity Point’s Platinum Prize Winner
Today, Microsoft announced its first platinum prize winner in the Ingenuity Point contest – TR...
Author: msftisvs Date: 05/15/2008
Document Format Interoperability: Our work continues – not just for Microsoft but for the entire vendor community.
As you’ve probably noticed from recent blogs to this site, interoperability is important to us....
Author: msftisvs Date: 05/14/2008
New Online Technical Support Resource Launches for Microsoft Partners
Hi, I’m Jill Tracy-Khoury and I’m part of the Worldwide Partner Group Technical Services team. I...
Author: msftisvs Date: 05/13/2008
Software 2008 Conference
I attended the Software 2008 Conference last week in Las Vegas. Overall it was a good conference,...
Author: msftisvs Date: 05/09/2008
Digital WPC Launches Live webcast series – Next up: environmental Sustainability on May 15, 8:00 a.m. PDT
Leading up to this year’s live Worldwide Partner Conference event, we are announcing the expansion...
Author: msftisvs Date: 05/08/2008
Security Training May 6th & 7th in Redmond, WA
In my previous posts, I addressed two pieces of security guidance as well as writing better code for...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/29/2008
Software solutions that benefit Planet Earth
Howdy! That seems like a strange way to start a blog considering I was born in Southern California,...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/23/2008
Announcing: Ingenuity Point’s Round 2 Winners
On Earth Day, it’s only appropriate to announce the 2nd Round winners of the Ingenuity Point...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/22/2008
Interoperability Executive Customer (IEC) Council, Volume 2 – How it works
In my last post, I mentioned the six IEC Council work streams. Office Productivity and Collaboration...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/21/2008
Interoperability Executive Customer (IEC) Council, Volume 1 – What our customers are telling us.
The Interoperability Executive Customer (IEC) Council has been mentioned several times in recent...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/17/2008
The Challenges of Interoperability
Let’s be real, interoperability can be hard – at least that is what our customers and independent...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/15/2008
Interoperability in Action – Volume 2
In follow up to my post about Open Source projects, here are more specifics about how we are...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/10/2008
Interoperability in Action – Volume 1
I was thrilled with last week’s approval of the vote on Open XML. I certainly have been dreaming,...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/08/2008
Join the interoperability conversation
We think this is a timely and important topic, so we invited a guest, Tom Robertson from our interop...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/02/2008
Offer for free streaming ad development with Silverlight
I recently heard about a program where Microsoft is giving away advertising services using the...
Author: msftisvs Date: 04/01/2008
3rd in a Series of Webinars for ISVs – Microsoft Dynamics CRM
For an insider’s view of how to build vertical or horizontal applications and/or integrate your...
Author: msftisvs Date: 03/24/2008
Great interview resources on HowSoftwareisBuilt.com
This was recently brought to my attention and I thought you would be interested in these compelling...
Author: msftisvs Date: 03/21/2008
Check out this insightful dialog between a Microsoft GM and an Open Text VP about the alliance between our two companies
Do your customers ask you why you partner with Microsoft when they may be competing with you?...
Author: msftisvs Date: 03/11/2008
Behind the Scenes of the Windows Server 2008 Launch
So I was backstage at the Windows Server 2008 LA launch event eavesdropping on Tom Brokaw's dressing...
Author: msftisvs Date: 03/07/2008