Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia
Learn about MS technology and the environment at TechEd Australia
Check out Bianca's (Little Miss Enviro Geek) session if you are attending TechEd Australia:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/13/2008
10 Vistas = 1 car ??
For those partners that attended the second day keynote at APC (Australian Partner Conference) you...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/13/2008
ARN slide show from partner conference
https://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1881772501;fp;16;fpid;1 Check out all those photos - brings...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/13/2008
APC award winners - let me promote your own press releases
(Aug 21 Update - added Dataract's press release) If any of our award winning partners from...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/13/2008
Getting Ready for IE8 - info for partners
https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40073057 The forthcoming release of IE8 means that partners...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/12/2008
Partner Conference - thanks to all the partners who attended ! And can I have your feedback...
I'd like to extend my personal thanks to all the Australian partners that came to Port Douglas last...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/11/2008
New Local Partner Readiness Schedule Launched
As most of you know we have three options for you to get skilled in Australia. (1) Partner Learning...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/11/2008
Calling all Aussie partners with 'competitive spirit' :-)
The IT Fund for Kids is a national fundraising initiative, established in 2000, supported by...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/11/2008
Environmental & Sustainability Updates
Well I was delighted with the award process, quality and quantity of entries for the Environmental...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/11/2008
Partner Conference Award Winners
Many congrats to the winning partners - we announced them all on Thursday night at the APC awards...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/09/2008
SQL Server 2008 RTMs
We announced this live on stage at the keynote here at partner conference:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/06/2008
Partner Conference so far
Well so far I am delighted with the feedback on the conference and encourage partners here to give...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/06/2008
New on Partner TV - Jason Trump on Education
Christian was busy last week and got a bunch of Partner TV videos out in his series on industry...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/04/2008
New on Partner TV - Tim Dawson on Financial Services opportunities
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/01/2008
APC - bring it on !
Well today is my last day in the office before going up to Port Douglas. Am so much looking forward...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/01/2008
New on Partner TV - our health and human services lead David Dembo
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2008
Microsoft Sphere - the new Surface ?
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2008
Mesh Updates
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2008
Partner Award Finalists Announced - congratulations to the finalists
https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40074846 And the winners will be announced next Thursday at...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2008
Learn More About our Silverlight Olympics Player with NBC
Those of us have seen this demo'd have universally in my experience been extremely impressed - and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2008
The Mojave Experiment - what do you think ?
So Australian partners, what do you think of the story that is all over the worldwide press and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/30/2008
The Small and Midsize Business Server Platform: Which Is Right for Your Customer?
Coming on Partner Academy Live in August and whilst not great time for Aussie partners you can see...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/29/2008
APC keynotes - what's coming
I have been quite deeply involved in building out the 2 keynotes for next week's local partner...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/29/2008
Solution Sales Training with Carpe-Diem and AiiA
Carpe-Diem are delivering sales training in collaboration with the AiiA which is open to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/25/2008
Virtualisation momentum twice as strong in Australia
One of our team internally pointed this article out - very interesting. Showing that Australian...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/25/2008
New on Partner TV - I talk to Christian about Software Plus Services for Partners
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/23/2008
ISV Pre-day at partner conference
Christian Longstaff (ISV Marketing Manager) is running an ISV Pre-Day the day before the Australian...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/23/2008
Latest Demo Showcase for SMB targetted partners
Robbie beat me to it on the SBSC blog - this is a great resource for partners selling products like...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/21/2008
BBC Olympics map - delivered through Virtual Earth
Good spot by Jamie Thomson (via Steve Clayton) - the BBC using VE for their interactive Olympics...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/21/2008
Partner Academy Live Sessions - ISA Server and Virtualisation Licensing
These are typically not at a great time for Aussie partners but are available shortly after the live...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/17/2008
Mesh - opened up
This announcement on the LiveMesh blog shows that anyone in US-English mode (i.e. not just US based...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/17/2008
Attend the Virtual Earth Pre-day at partner conference and you could win a Palm Treo
At the Virtual Earth sessions at the Australia Partner Conference pre days Microsoft Regional...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/17/2008
Free SBS for attendees to the TechEd Australia SMB Pre-day
Nice offer from Robbie: "I'm very happy to announce that every attendee of our SMB Servers day...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/14/2008
Help Transforming Your Business Model - a new interactive partner guide
I spent some time today looking at the new Software + Services Partner Evolution Interactive Guide...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/14/2008
Our S+S Strategy - let me help with your questions
With all the announcements last week on the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) as part of our...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/14/2008
Guess who is coming to Australian Partner Conference (APC) ? Allison Watson !
2 weeks ago I left a 'tease' on my post about APC. Well I am delighted to announce that the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/14/2008
More headlines from WPC
Whilst perhaps the most significant announcements from Worldwide Partner Conference relate to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/10/2008
Headlines from WPC
Lots of information coming out from WPC of course. The one stop shop for the latest news is the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/09/2008
Imagine Cup - Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie !
To quote the director of our developer and evangelism team yesterday on stage in front of all our...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/09/2008
Reminder - WPC keynote tonight Australian time
If you weren't able to get to Houston for the worldwide partner conference then you can still watch...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/08/2008
Imagine Cup - go the Aussies !
The Imagine Cup final is on. Team SOAK from Australia is representing us all. Good luck ! Find out...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/04/2008
Microsoft Technology - how to use it to help reduce environmental impact
The Environmental team in our HQ has recently launched a great new section on their website...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/04/2008
APC Awards - closed - thanks to all those that submitted
Well, the awards submission tool closed last night and we have had a fabulous quantity and quality...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/03/2008
Get ready for Digital WPC
For the lucky ones attending Worldwide Partner Conference this is not for you. However for the rest...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/02/2008
CSP - what, another acronym from Microsoft ?
Partners in Australia will hear much more on this in the next 3-6 months - but this blog post from...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/01/2008
Learn About Our Local Environmental IT initiatives
Bianca has posted an interesting interview with Jonathan Lewis who runs our local IT operation - on...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/01/2008
Thank you Dean, welcome Hilton - SBSC champions
I would like to personally thanks Dean Calvert for his passion and commitment to being the PAL...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/01/2008
Australian Partner Conference (APC) Update
Tease: we have one more significant announcement to make - watch this space - it's one that will be...
Author: NickM77 Date: 06/30/2008
New Partner Portal Homepage - let me know what you think
I know partners often hear the phrase like 'following feedback we have.." but let me tell you...
Author: NickM77 Date: 06/27/2008
Hyper V released - go forth and virtualise :-)
"Microsoft’s Hypervisor Technology Gives Customers Combined Benefits of Windows Server...
Author: NickM77 Date: 06/26/2008