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Win an AIMIA Award
Nominations for the 14th Annual AIMIA Awards, the longest running and most prestigious awards in...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/31/2007
Office Business Applications Marketplace
One of our technology pushes with ISVs is to develop Office Business Applications (OBA). What...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/31/2007
Looking for ISV Visual Studio 2008 Partners...
...for a potential case study. Please get in touch if you are an ISV (a partner who is developing...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/31/2007
Successful Partnering with Microsoft
At tonight's NSW DOT NET Cluster event, I presented the "Microsoft Partner Program for ISV's",...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/25/2007
Web Central Roadshow
Australia’s largest web and application hosting company, WebCentral, who are also the 2007 Microsoft...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/23/2007
Virtual Earth Partner Briefings
If you are interested in the latest features and capability of the Virtual Earth platform, you...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/23/2007
ISV Team Visiting Canberra
We received lots of feedback, from people like Jeff and the .NET Clusters that we should add...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/23/2007
Want an Introduction to a System Integrator?
Just when you were thought you were safe from the speed dating scene, Nick Mayhew (our Partner...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/17/2007
More Partner Training for BPIO-U
If you are considering developing solutions around SharePoint, Office, Unified Communications or...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/16/2007
Welcome Wendy Smith
Wendy has joined the team and the blogsphere as the new Channel Development Manager, to help the...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/11/2007
MOSS Portal for Aussie Information Worker Partners
Saw this on Siatro's blog (who is Siatro below) about how you demo a live Microsoft Office...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/08/2007
Windows Server 2008: Developer Essentials Partner Readiness Training
Update: If you are an ISV and would like to attend this training, please email me to request a 100%...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/08/2007
Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries
From Chuck: reading ScottGu's blog yesterday we announced the release of the sourcecode to the .NET...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/04/2007
Search all of Microsoft Australia Staff Blogs
With the new version of Live Search, I created a macro to search across all of the Microsoft...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/04/2007
Action Pack: Tools for Web Partners
If you're in the business of designing or developing Web sites or Web applications, you need the...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/02/2007
Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide
David Tesar has posted a new whitepaper for any organisation wanting to deploy, manage, and...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/02/2007
Partner Skills Plus
Partner Skills Plus (PS+) was launched worldwide on Monday, September 17, 2007. As highlighted at...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/01/2007
Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 Goes to Houston Texas
I saw on CRN, we announced our Worldwide Partner Conference will take place during 7-10th July 2008...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/28/2007
Nominate an ISV who is Changing the World
At Microsoft, we believe passionate people and innovative software are key to unlocking some of the...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/28/2007
Web Directions South
I attended the Web Directions conference today in Sydney... one of the keynote speakers was Rashmi...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/27/2007
Tell Microsoft about your Product
Nick blogged this a while back about how ISV's could make Microsoft aware of their products. This is...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/27/2007
SQL Code Camps Event
The SQL Down Under Code Camp and Security Camp Oz are being held on 13-14 October at the Charles...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/27/2007
ISV Innovation Days for 2008 launch wave products
ISV Innovation Days will allow you to connect with the Microsoft ISV Virtual Team (including the...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/25/2007
Resources for the Office Developer
Thanks to Darren Strange for circulating this list: BDC High-Level Click-through demo on BDC and...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/24/2007
BPIO University
If you are in a pre-sales or sales role and are talking to technical or business decision-makers,...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/21/2007
Microsoft Dynamics Development Platform Event
Event ID: 1032353826 Sydney & 1032353827 Melbourne >> Register Online for Sydney: Wed 31...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/20/2007
Open XML - submit your question
I am interviewing Sarah Bond, our Open XML lead for Australia on Friday 21st September. I know many...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/19/2007
2008 Office Developer Conference
Dates and location for the 2008 Office Developer Conference have now been announced with Bill Gates...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/17/2007
October Training Update
Want to ready yourself? Want to increase your profitability? Visit the Training & Readiness...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/17/2007
New Australia 2008 Wave Launch Blog
Nick Mayhew has created a new team blog for the 2008 Launch Wave, especially for Partners based in...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/17/2007
How Software is developed
"How Software is Developed" is an interesting blog which was setup to provide deep dive analysis and...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/17/2007
MarketingSherpa Offer for ISV's
We are offering our ISV/Software Solutions competency partners a complimentary, one-year...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/17/2007
SharePoint Conference 2008 Registration Now Open
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 is now open! Last years event was a huge success and was...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/12/2007
Windows Server 2008 Hosting Road-show
When? Tuesday 6 Nov 2007, 8.30am Where? Sydney: Clifton and Associates - Sydney CBD, Level 2, 200...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/10/2007
My Software + Services Presentation
Day Two: Australia Partner Conference Although the Australia Partner Conference has come to a close,...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/03/2007
Day One: Australia Partner Conference
We are half way through the first day at the Australia Partner Conference, in Hamilton Island....
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/29/2007
Meet me in Hamilton Island
If you are attending the Australia Partner Conference and are doing some cool things around the Web...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/16/2007
VSTO Resources
Andrew Coates has some good resources on Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/16/2007
Our Partner Satisfaction Survey Coming Soon!
It's almost that time of year again... where we ask you for feedback on where we've done a good job...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/13/2007
Software + Services Presentation
I have almost finished my presentation for the Australia Partner Conference. I've just been told...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/09/2007
Silverlight RC2
Tim blogs Silverlight RC2 almost with us! Also click here to see more examples built in...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/08/2007
CNET Channel and Amazon Partnership
Two new partnerships were announced this week: CNET Channel (the leading provider of product...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/08/2007
Microsoft Web Experience DVD
As part of the new Web solutions pages up on the Partner Portal, you can request a Microsoft Web...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/08/2007
I Hate My Website
Reading the Office Live blog, I saw this eBook (sponsored by Office Live), “I Hate my Website: 10...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/08/2007
News for Action Pack Subscribers
From 30 November 2007, partners either renewing or subscribing to the Action Pack will be required...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/06/2007
SQL Down Under Event
Another one from Chuck: SQL Code Camp is sure to be the SQL Server event of the year! The site for...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/06/2007
Microsoft Products Roadmap
The slides are coming through from our Partner Conference in Denver and from our Sales &...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 08/03/2007