While Silverlight may be taking center stage with streaming video, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with its search features serves as the portal for thousands to access the Summer Olympics.The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is using SharePoint for its INFO 2008 Web portal,...

When you’re selling your products and services on the Windows Vista operating system, you can accelerate your sales cycle with the Demo Readiness Toolkit.  Windows Vista Ultimate deployment built specifically for demos, the toolkit includes a script, sample content, preinstalled applications like 2007...

Microsoft has published a set of documents that affirm our Interoperability Principles that increases openness, drive greater interoperability and provide more choice for developers, customers and competitors.Highlights of the announcement include:Posting version 1.0 releases of technical documentation...

The first version of the software developer kit (SDK) for Open XML has been released to the web.  The Open XML document standard is awaiting publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).The SDK is designed to help you produce code in your applications to create, access and...

With the end of the fiscal year coming to Microsoft, a new set of emerging technologies will be starting up soon.  The new Rhythm technologies will be announced in June and July with enrollment beginning in August and September.  You will continue to find information, forums, developer training, events...

As a managed ISV you’re invited to a special training event – Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Workshop.  The event will be held at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA on June 25-26, 2008.The training event is designed to help developers understand some of the new features...

Join the product team and experts for an all-day Office SharePoint Server Fire Starter Event in Redmond, WA on June 11.  The event includes an introduction to SharePoint, a whirlwind tour on how SharePoint works with Visual Studio, Silverlight and SharePoint together, Web Parts, Web Services, Workflow,...

Join in this series of webcasts for practical technical information for developers on Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server.  The topics are presented by Microsoft MVPs Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell.  Each session lasts about an hour and provides a Level 200 introduction with demos...

The Citizen Service Platform (CSP) helps governments of all sizes more responsively deliver services to citizens via the Internet.The platform is an extensible package that enables fast, repeatable implementation of local and regional government solutions.  It leverages existing investments and can...

Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 provide the infrastructure for enterprise communications including email, voice, video, IM, conferencing and unified messaging.  You can leverage Unified Communications (UC) Platform APIs to

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have concluded their formal evaluation of Ecma International’s submission of the Office Open XML as a draft international standard and have overwhelmingly ratified it as an international...

Microsoft’s largest annual technical education event, TechEd 2008 offers the same enriching and informative experiences you’ve come to expect from TechEd but with additional learning opportunities designed to meet the specific needs, interests and priorities of two distinct audiences in two separate...

Right now there’s fast-growing demand for Office Business Applications (OBAs).  If you profile your OBA, Microsoft will showcase it on sites such as OBA Central and SolutionsConnect.  This can give your OBA instant exposure to potentially millions of people who visit Microsoft web sites looking for...

Microsoft is making a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices that will increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice across the information technology community of developers, partners, customers and competitors.Specifically,...

INTERACT2008 is an exclusive event for leaders in unified communications.  This inaugural technology event, held on April 8-10 in San Diego, CA, provides a special opportunity for you to develop deep technical knowledge about Microsoft’s unified communications products, build powerful new connections...

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 is a standards-based real-time communication system that allows presence-based Voice over IP call management, conferencing (audio, video and Web), and instant messaging.  Register here to view these webcasts on-demand.

Learn how to sell 2007 Microsoft Office Systems to your customers by attending Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization University (BPIO U) 2008.What is BPIO U?  The Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) University is a compreh

You won’t want to miss the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008, coming to the San Jose Convention Center on February 10-13, 2008.  Bill Gates will be there – how about you?ODC 2008 is the premier event for Microsoft Office and SharePoint developers, bringing together architects, developers,...

Office 2007 SP1 is now available from Office Online.  The update will be available automatically via Windows Update in three to six months.  It will also be available through Windows Server Update Services and Systems Management Server.Most changes are minor.  Changes include some stability fixes, improved...

The 6th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference in New York is just around the corner.  Primary focus this year will be High Performance Computing (HPC) and how HPC can be leveraged in financial services.  The conference will be held at the Marriott Marquis from March 12-13.Key topics for developers...

Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 will be available for download starting December 11.  The improvements in 2007 Office System SP1 are in response to direct feedback from power users at large organizations or indirect feedback from home and Office users through the Dr. Watson bug-reporting system.This service...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have been released.  And as managed partners, you can get the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit for Developers.  The kit is available on Metro.The kit includes slide presentations, labs, and demos from the five-day training sessions.  Step-by-step demos and code...

Are you deploying solutions built on the 2007 Office release?  Help secure it with the 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide.  E-mail systems and desktop applications are essential collaboration and productivity tools for your customers.  Adversaries know this and regularly target organizations using...

Explore ISV business opportunities with Microsoft.  Visit us in San Francisco during Oracle OpenWorld on November 11.Learn about the Microsoft strategy, Software + Services and, in particular, how Office Business Applications (OBAs) and (Microsoft) Business Intelligence uniquely help Microsoft partners...

You won’t want to miss the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008, coming to the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA, February 10-13, 2008.  Bill Gates will be there – how about you?To learn more and register for this conference, please click here.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 will showcase Microsoft’s market-leading SharePoint Products and Technologies, solution expertise and customer successes and will be held from March 2-6, 2008 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle.  The Conference is designed...

Open XML represents an exciting advance toward achieving the original vision of XML, where broad interoperability allows documents to be archived, restructured, aggregated and re-used in new and dynamic ways.  This Web seminar series will cover: Open XML Architecture Programming with the Packaging API...

This 4 part virtual lab walks you through the fundamentals of extending Word, Excel, and Outlook using Visual Studio.  In addition, a virtual lab takes you through creating a SharePoint Workflow.Part 1 — Data Binding with Word Content ControlsPart 2 — Create an Outlook Add-in with a Form RegionPart...

Visual Studio® 2008 introduces a number of exciting new features and technologies.  In this two-day, instructor-led course you will explore the following tools and technologies:.NET 3.5Microsoft Visual Studio 2008Language Integrated Query (LINQ)Windows® Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication...

In the majority of the Public Sector organizations today, forms processing is a highly manual, paper intensive, and labor intensive undertaking.  Technology and automation provide numerous opportunities to optimize related end-to-end processes that could yield significant cost reductions and an enhanced...

With the release of 2007 Microsoft Office System clients, servers, and tools, Microsoft delivers a true application platform that can be used to create collaborative, role-based, easy-to-use solutions that extend the traditional line-of-business (LOB) applications and enterprise systems.  Not only has...

The ultimate objective of the Unified Communications 4-part Web seminar series is to help you, as a Microsoft ISV partner, find new ways to grow your business and make it more profitable.  Attend this Web seminar series on August 27-30 to learn how using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office...

There are currently 4 Technology Specialist certifications available for SharePoint Technologies.  To find out more be sure to check out:  http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/default.mspx.

First 200 partners to register and view all five ISV Innovation Web Seminar Deep Dive Series On-Demand: 2007 Microsoft Office System Web seminar courses will receive a “2007 Microsoft Office Clock" at the end of the promotional period.  Click here to learn more!

Find the latest developer content on this community blog site.  You will be able to interact directly with Microsoft's product managers, top developer trainers, and technical and marketing experts through this site.  Included are links to upcoming training events, developer documents, and other resources...

Now available is a 4 part series on developing with Visual Studio Orcas, focusing on Vista, Office, ASP.NET AJAX, and LINQ development.EventsEvent TypeDateISV Web Seminar Series Part 1/4: Visual Studio Orcas - Developing for Vista and the AERO User InterfaceWeb Seminar OnDemandISV Web Seminar Series...

Do your developers occasionally need help with a specific task of a given technology?  Then the How-Do-I video series is here to help!  These short 10 to 15 minutes videos show a developer how to perform certain tasks with some of our coolest technologies.  Videos are available in up to 11 different...

Within the next several weeks a decision will be made that may directly impact your opportunities for revenue and technology choice. In Office 2007 Microsoft introduced a new set of document formats that was specifically designed to increase the ease with which documents could be created and enhance...