You've probably heard by now that Steve Ballmer's going to be in Sydney on November 6/7, however what you may not know is that he's going to be presenting at a live web rally . That's right, along with about a thousand other meetings the Microsoft CEO will be presenting our Software + Services strategy...

As you probably know, daylight saving now commences on the first Sunday in October and ends on the first Sunday in April in New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania & South Australia. This change affects Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Outlook and other Microsoft, third party and custom applications...

As you can imagine an organisation like Microsoft works with a rather large number of partner & customer communities & so our efforts to stay in touch & up-to-date are not always as effective as we'd like. But we try. A big part of this is done via our regular surveys & so in the next...

As promised when summarising the feedback from the last series of SBSC roundtables (apologies for the delay), we would like to share our response to the questions & concerns that were raised. You can download the document here that shows the issue, context & Microsoft Australia's thoughts &...

Just announced, Microsoft's FY08 revenues exceeded $60 billion for the first time. As per the earnings announcement , this represents an 18% year-on-year increase & a 32% increase in earnings per share. There's been lots of chatter lately around our direction, focus, leadership & overall strategy...

The Australian Partner Conferences awards are now open for submission & so drop everything and get your entry in before June 16th. See here for all the details: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064 Though the conference this year is only open to Gold & Certified partners, all members...

And so it come to pass that after 7 years, 7 months & nearly 7 days at Microsoft, I've finally got around to publishing a blog. What follows will be my own thoughts, perceptions, comments & updates on all manner of things connected to the Microsoft SBS and Windows Essential Business Server...