June 2008 - Posts
I know partners often hear the phrase like 'following feedback we have.." but let me tell you this is absolutely one of these cases, and one that is really genuine. My team, me and many others read through the various bits of feedback we had from
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"Microsoft’s Hypervisor Technology Gives Customers Combined Benefits of Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization Customers reap the rewards of server consolidation and business continuity projects along with integrated management tools to manage
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Steve Clayton spotted this article on some insight into Microsoft's investments in b uilding data centres. As this next few week's announcements come out (starting at WPC ) around our Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) I think may people will begin
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Via Bianca's great blog: "Microsoft has published a new whitepaper on Windows Server 2008 power savings, and the results and methodologies of the tests run to develop the paper. This is an excellent document, which outlines the test results (downloadable
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Tech Ed has proven to be an amazing technical event for our Partners and this year will be no year exception! With a very exciting TechEd08 in Orlando , US just completed, the Australian team are pleased to announce another great Australian Tech
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With all the publicity about the iPhone being launched, it's good to know that the Windows Mobile devices continue to evolve amazingly. I recently moved to an HTC device with touch screen, but this is the new generation coming via Telstra according to
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http://blogs.msdn.com/wmoz/default.aspx " Welcome along to the WMOz blog, a Microsoft team blog focusing on all things Windows Mobile through an Australian specific lens. So why the WMOz Blog? There are plenty of blogs from the US and Europe dealing
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx or http://www.microsoft.com/windows/letter.html And some 3rd party coverage: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/xp_microsoft_does_the_right_thing.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K000053
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This is a fascinating interview led by Robert Scoble with Brad Goldberg who runs Live Search - learn about Brad's perspectives on how Microsoft will look to change the game in search. http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/microsoft-search-will-it-use-mahalo-techniques-compete-with-googl
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7464074.stm It's a fascinating interview, and the link includes several other interviews include one with Ray Ozzie on 'filling' Bill's shoes.
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http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ I have been personally quite heavily involved in our local planning towards increasing the partner focus on Environment and Sustainability (E&S) so it's a subject like many people I am passionate about. This fabulous
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As we ramp up quickly towards the WPC (worldwide partner conference) updates on our MS Online partner business model, the place to watch for resources and extra information is on the portal here: https://partner.microsoft.com/online We will also provide
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I watch closely the progress on Surface and there are some meaningful commercial launches now and secondly of course many more 'lab' developments going on. A good place to stay in touch is the Surface team blog . Here are some recent developments all
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David Dembo's blog continues to develop nicely as a great local resource for Aussie partners interested in the health sector. Here are his last two posts to get you interested: "Live Search - Health Many of you are already aware of the Health Search Engine
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http://www.microsoft.com/isv/licensing/isvroyalty.aspx We are having enormous success with invigorating the ISV Royalty program locally - Christian in my team is a great point of contact, or of course your partner account manager if you are a Gold/Cert
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https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40068098 I was looking over the draft agenda for the ISV pre-day today and it's looking great - expect the same with all the pre-days. These are limited space so please register asap if you want to secure a spot
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Via Robbie's blog : "Great FAQ for Partners just released covering Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 - check it out: Windows Essential Server Solutions Partner FAQ The Wayne & I have just finished the Sydney SBS/EBS
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These new pages have recently gone live on the global portal - good for a worldwide perspective on our 'partnering in industry' story. https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40059790 https://partner.microsoft.com/education https :// partner.microsoft.com/government
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One of the critical functions of my team is to build out the technical and sales & marketing skills development program to enable partners to grow their capability and capacity in their Microsoft-related business. We are delighted to announce the
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There is no doubt that the value of certification for IT professionals and developers both in customer and partner-land is bouncing back. We are seeing increased volume in certifications altogether, both locally and worldwide, and within the partner areas
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APC=Australian Partner Conference. We were aware of a number of great partner solutions that we wanted to ensure partners had sufficient time to get them in - so extended the deadline to 2nd July. Enter your solution today ! https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/4004306
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The formal press release of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) finalists and winners has gone live : "Microsoft Announces 2008 Partner of the Year Awards Finalists and Winners Awards recognize partners’ innovative use of Microsoft technology
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Via Michael Kordahi: " Paul Keen breaks the news . Ninemsn is now live streaming the 6pm news and, you guessed it, they’re offering Silverlight as an option. Paul does share one interesting stat with us ”from the soft-launch stats 55%
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Spotted by Steve Clayton and The Liveside team: http://preview.microsoft.com/video/ This is a collection of Microsoft-specific videos all in one convenient location. Some examples: Hands On With Live Mesh Hands on with Live Mesh House Calls for Healthcare
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https://partner.microsoft.com/US/trainingevents/wwpartnerconference/40069287 Many congratulations to the following Australian winners and finalists: Great to see such a strong result for Australia and thanks to the many partners that submitted
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Well it is definitely the season for awards for partners. On top of the Worldwide Partner Conference Awards (closed - winners announced internally, publically next week, and the Australian Partner Conference Awards (still taking submissions - but only
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S+S = software plus services as many of you know. Get ready for a lot (and I mean a lot !) of info coming out over the next few weeks, particularly at Worldwide Partner Conference (and don't forget you can watch it on Digital WPC if you aren't going to
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http://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx Note also that there are some demos online on that site: http://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/resources/demos.asp
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Check out Jeff's post on the World Environment Day events in our office: http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36/archive/2008/06/05/today-is-world-environment-day.aspx - copied in full here as it's a great post and an important post. Nice one Jeff - hope you
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7edaa89f-9f64-488d-93c0-858d2d8799df&DisplayLang=en http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
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Partner Academy Live is a great resource - instructor led online training - and even if the timings are not suitable for Aussie partners you can watch on demand after the events. As a helpful piece of info, 8am Pacific Time is currently 1am in Sydney
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Every blogger I know in Microsoft and almost every one elsewhere used LiveWriter as the tool to create blog posts quickly (me included). Well the next version is in Tech preview: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/ " New Features You’ll
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Bill Gates kicked of TechEd US with a keynote that included some important announcements. Keep an eye on the following site for all the news over the next few days: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/default.mspx This press release
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Mike Heald just announced this - an event tool that partners can use to run your own customer events. Available to all Gold, Certified and Registered partners but you need a LiveID account, associated to the partner organisation. Do let me know what you
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Via Mark Harrison : " SharePoint Developer introduction for .NET developers http://mssharepointdeveloper.com/ has 8 new online MSDN Virtual Labs . You don't have to download a VPC ... just require IE and an Internet connection." This site is an introductory
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There is a whole host of TechEd Australia news and we know that many partners will have people attending. Keep an eye on the various blogs, and the TechEd Australia site . Here are a few interesting looking articles: What will be in the UC track TechEd
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Mike Heald lets the cat out of the bag.... We are excited about this one... was very well received last year.
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