Microsoft Partner Program - It’s your chance to be a hero.

Microsoft is offering members of the Microsoft Partner Progam a chance to be a hero.
From the Microsoft annoucement:

For a limited time, your customers can receive up to 15% back on ERP* in partner subsidy funds when they purchase at least 10 Microsoft® Office Visio® Professional 2007 or Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 licenses through a [...]

Better Together: CA embraces Microsoft Virtualization products

Security and business continuity giant Computer Associates (more commonly known as CA) announced Monday that it will provide broad based support for Microsoft’s Virtualization products with its security, recovery management, systems management, and other technologies. The announcement came Monday, as Microsoft was officially unveiling its Virtualization technologies at its first US “Get Virtual Now” event in [...]

Microsoft Virtualization: “Get Virtual Now” events kick off in the US

In case you didn’t hear about Microsoft’s Get Virtual Now event at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA Monday, here’s the 411: Microsoft invited a short list of high level partners (IT Channel’s Barbara Darrow calls them best-friend vendors) for the official launch of Microsoft’s Virtualization products. Among the attendees: Intel, Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Novell, Citrix, [...]

Microsoft’s Mojave project still making waves.

If you’re just now tuning in, here’s the recap: Microsoft invited Vista “skeptics” (nicer than calling them Vista haters) to test drive a new OS prototype code-named “Mojave.” Pretty much everyone in the test group loved it. Only… “Mojave” turned out to be Vista. In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft captured the testers’ reactions on video and [...]

Microsoft’s FrameIt is Picture Perfect!

Microsoft has come out with FrameIt which is a new service that helps you do creative things with your pictures, text, etc.  This is a cool article that explains the new service:

Microsoft FrameIt Turns Web Pages & Feeds into Framed Images
Microsoft FrameIt is a new service from Windows Live that is primarily designed for people [...]

Microsoft’s Brilliant Mojave Experiment goes live!

Find out the facts about Vista.  Hat tip to Steve Clayton again for pointing us to the Mojave Experiment’s very own website. Very cool.
Make sure you don’t overlook the “You Can’t Please Everyone” section.

Vista Security: Better than XP and Mac OSX!!!

Great little article by Ed Bott over at ZD.net this week on OS security comparisons.  Turns out that not only does Vista beat XP, but it also outperforms - wait for it, wait for it… - Mac’s OS X.
Ed’s experiment is fairly simple and can be repeated by anyone with a bit of time on [...]

Code Name: Mojave

From Cnet.com’s Ina Fried:

Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 [...]

Hyper-V: Let’s start with the basics

Before we get too in-depth with our very own Hyper-V adoption and deployment program in the channel, I figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to direct you guys to Microsoft’s Hyper-V page. Click on the image above or on the link below to access it.
The Hyper-V page should answer most - if not all - of [...]

Facebook isn’t the only one getting a makeover

Great article by Mary Jo Foley on Microsoft’s new profile set for Win Live:

Microsoft hints about new profile-centric Win Live wares
The blogosphere was atwitter (pun intended) over the past day or two about Facebook’s recent revamp designed to make user pages more profile-centric.
But Facebook isn’t the only one going this route. It sounds like Microsoft is [...]