Retail pricing has been announced for Office 2010.Office 2010 will be offered in four versions, to make it easier to choose a version of Office that’s best for you – Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student and Office Professional Academic.Here’s a chart that outlines the...

Mark your calendars for the 2010 Microsoft BI Conference the week of June 7, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.  The Microsoft BI Conference is co-located with TechEd North America 2010.The conference will focus on the following categories:Empower Your Users.  Microsoft Excel (including PowerPivot for Excel),...

Microsoft Exchange 2010 has been released to manufacturing as the first key product in Microsoft line of communications products. Exchange 2010 is part of the next wave of Microsoft Office products and is also the first Microsoft server technology to work on-premises and as an online service.  Exchange...

Microsoft is offering a special discount for Metro Early Adoption Participants to attend this year’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on November 17- 19 in Los Angeles.Effective immediately, we are DOUBLING the PDC offer for Metro participants.  Specifically, for those that register with our...

Microsoft has just announced over 25 new PDC sessions.  For more information on these and other sessions, click here.  Register before September 15 and save $500 here.Here’s a list of the sessions just announced:Advanced Diagnostics, Historical Debugging and Test AutomationAdvanced Microsoft SQL Server...

You can register now for Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and save $500 for the full conference pass.  Discounts expire on September 15.PDC is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  Workshops are scheduled on November 16; Conference runs from November 17-19.  One-day and pre-conference...

The next wave of technology in FY10 is ramping up on these technologies:Client:  Silverlight, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, SurfaceProductivity:  Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Unified Communications, Dynamics CRM 5Server:  Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows HPC Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2Services:  Windows...

Save the date for Professional Developers Conference (PDC) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  The conference will be held on November 17-19.  Workshops are scheduled on November 16.Registration is discounted through September 15.  Sign up now for the PDC mailing list.Professional Developers Conference...

Office2010 Technical Preview has been released for limited testing.  Participants in the Technical Preview program will begin to receive invitations to download the software from the Microsoft Connect site.  To request an invitation, go to Office 2010 The Movie and click on Get a Backstage Pass.With...

To help Office 2010 developers get ready, Office 2010 will be highlighted at the upcoming SharePoint Conference in October 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.The Office Developer Conference will not take place this year.  Instead, we are including the Office Developer Conference content within the SharePoint Conference....

Differentiating your line-of-business applications from those of your competitors has never been more important.  You are invited to a two-day deep technical training event to learn the developer fundamentals of building on Dynamics CRM and numerous other Microsoft technologies.This two-day event will...

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability and stability in your server farms.  SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint products and technologies.SP2 introduces...

Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system includes major performance enhancements for Office applications, most notably Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.  One big benefit is SP2’s boost to interoperability, particularly Office support for additional built-in...

Imagine a development system that could give you the ability to rapidly build line of business solutions, perhaps saving up to 70 percent of your development time.  Would that be of interest to you?Imagine the same system already coming pre-built with the capability to be multi-tenant and multi-lingual....

Office 2010 will be delivered in the first half of calendar year 2010.  The code name for the version had been Office 14.Exchange 2010 will be the first product in this lineup, entering beta for customers to download now.  Exchange 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009.  Office 2010...

The release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for 2007 Office System release is set for April 28.  This is the first update to the since December 2007.The service pack adds support for Open Document Format (ODF) Version 1.1 to Word, Excel and PowerPoint; boosts the performance of the Outlook 2007 e-mail client;...

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is now available as a free download from here.As part of the announcement, if you have SharePoint Designer 2007 Software Assurance (SA) current as of April 1, 2009, you will receive upgrade rights to Expression Web for the lifetime of your SA agreement.SharePoint Designer...

Registration is now open for TechDays Developer 2009 – Defy All Challenges, a 24 hour virtual event!  For the first time, developers will gather from all over the world in one continuous 24 hours of learning around the clock on April 1, 2009.  To register, click here.The technologies include Developer...

Come bring you idea, business and development talent to CRM Incubation Week and let business and technology experts help you get your idea off the ground.You’ll learn how to build next generation business solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform.  Dynamics CRM is a rapid application development...

Differentiating your line-of-business applications from those of your competitors has never been more important.  We’re hosting a seminar near you that will help you understand how we can help you do that as a valued Microsoft Partner.Microsoft Dynamics C

Join us as we show how Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) help deliver the ultimate in customer choice for integrated, adaptable business management solutions.By automating and streamlining financial, customer relationship, operations and...

Microsoft had unveiled changes to the company’s Business Intelligence strategy by incorporating Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features into Office SharePoint Server Enterprise.  The move helps fulfill the mission of bringing BI to the masses and set Microsoft apart from many of the BI vendors...

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has been released to manufacturing (RTM).  Customers will see the software at a virtual launch event in February.  OCS 2007 R2 incorporates new tools that developers can use to embed communication features into business applications.For example, you can use OCS workflow...

Microsoft  HYPERLINK "http://blogs.msdn.com/sanjayjain/archive/2008/11/14/microsoft-dynamics-crm-incubation-week.aspx" Dynamics CRM Incubation Week helps you prototype your next business solution incorporating Dynamics CRM to store person, marketing or product information.  You can think of Dynamics...

Channel 9 presents a set of videocasts of presentations from Professional Developers Conference.  If you attended, you can see sessions you might not have been able to catch or if you didn’t attend, catch up on what all the buzz is about.Here’s a list of

Reach the community who build and sell applications on Microsoft Dynamics by sponsoring Convergence 2009.Convergence is the premier Microsoft Dynamics event, bringing customers, partners, team members and industry experts together in an environment created for you to discuss solutions, address business...

You're invited to attend Microsoft's six part webinar series on the Microsoft Dynamics brand and products which are of interest to ISVs.  These six webinars will start on November 17, 2008 and will showcase why you as an ISV should consider one of the Microsoft Dynamics platforms for your next development...

The next version of Office Communication Server will add VoIP, collaboration and web presence enhancements.  Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2) should be available in February 2009.OCS 2007 R2 will make it easier for mobile users and nomadic workers to use a mobile phone as an extension...

The roadmap for Business Intelligence (BI) applications written in SQL Server was announced at the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference.   You can see the conference keynotes online at http://www.msbiconference.com/.  A community technology preview (CTP) should be available within the next 12...

You are invited to attend the SharePoint for Internet Site Development developer training event, November 17-20 in Redmond.  This two and a half day event provides you with an opportunity to learn how you can use SharePoint as a development platform for b