January 2009 - Posts
What is Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications? OGA notifications is a part of Microsoft’s Genuine Software Initiative. It is delivered as a voluntary download via Microsoft Update. Once downloaded, OGA notifications validates the copy of Office
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Open the door to great new revenue opportunities! “Open Value has been great for our company, resulting in a revenue increase of approximately 80%,” - Jan Prinsen, Sales Manager, Artikona. In August 2008, Microsoft Australia made changes to the Open Value
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-27KurtDelbeneQA.mspx?rss_fdn=Top%20Stories “ Q&A: Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Platform Group at Microsoft, discusses changes to Microsoft’s business intelligence
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Just published - this is a case study on BI with UNSW and Calumo.. Useful sales reference for many partners. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003440 " The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is one of Australia’s
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Go find out more about our local corporate affairs activities on our new site, including the awesome On My Way initiative you've seen me talk about before. https://www.microsoft.com/australia/about/default.mspx
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We think many Australian ISVs are leaving $ on the table - yes, it's true ! Find out more on Partner TV from one of our ISVs who has embraced the ISV Royalty Program: http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2009/01/06/partner-tv-intellimax-solutions-on-the-isv-royalty-licensing-program.asp
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2009/01/06/partner-tv-prima-consulting-on-partner-sales-resource-portal.aspx Robert Easson from Prima Consulting talks about the Microsoft Partner Sales Resource Portal . Securing new customers – or
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https://www.microsoft.com.au/events/register/home.aspx?levent=609998&linvitation
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http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/index.html "Karaoke in reverse" ?? Check it out - looks fun for kids.. From the website: "Just pick a style for your song... Choose a tempo... And sing! Immediately, Songsmith
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I watched this last night - it's an interesting view. The Jerry Yang Facebook joke also got our office laughing ! You;ll see a bunch of new product demos, Windows 7, and of course some Xbox innovation.
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Description (note: MSIT=Microsoft Internal IT) MSIT shares its approach to Environmental Sustainability. This presentation will walk through how MSIT has organized for Environmental Sustainability and share MSIT current work in place to reduce its environmental
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Useful blog entry from the Windows team, including info on the 'enthusiast' beta release. Only for the first 2.5m people in initial release ! http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/01/07/information-on-downloading-and-installing-windows-7-beta.asp
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1. Customization capabilities and limitations. 2. Custom templates, master pages, style sheets. 3. Data Form Web Parts (adding, editing, deleting, sorting, filtering list items). 4. The 20 site admin templates of the fantastic forty (the other 20 are
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As part of our gearing up to launch Microsoft Online in Australia, in partnership with Telstra, we've added a new role to my team and it's a very familiar person to almost all Aussie partners - Kathryn Saducas. I am so delighted to have Kathryn back in
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To all the Australian Microsoft partners - happy new year from me. I hope 2009 is prosperous for you and the team here is totally committed to helping you succeed in the current environment. Here's to a successful 2009 !
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