Tartan Tech: Microsoft Scotland Insight

Living centrally in Edinburgh, one often hears from the chattering classes of Morningside about the benefits of private education - "I just can't decide whether to send little Tarquin/Jemima to Fettes or The Academy!", etc etc.

So it is with some pleasure that I can announce that the benefits of a privileged education can be made available to the great unwashed of Scotland's Microsoft Partner network.

Partner Academy Live is a little known and exclusive resource for Partner sales and technical people, and all you need is access to the Microsoft Partner Learning Centre

In webcast sessions lasting only an hour, partners have the opportunity to of emerging business opportunities and technology developments a little earlier than the riff-raff. They are delivered Live generally by members of the Microsoft Product Teams in Redmond WA, and attendees have the chance to submit questions through Live Meeting.

In the next month there are a series of webcasts covering topics of huge significance to most Microsoft Partners:

1. A series of events covering Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) pricing and licensing, which has got to be the #1 opportunity for partners to profit from the industry shift to Cloud Computing and Microsoft's drive to Software + Services, see Hey! You Get onto My Cloud!
2. For Small Business Partners, a series of events covering all aspects of the forthcoming Small Business Server release.

These are little know probably because they are a little hard to track down in the Microsoft Partner Learning Centre and are often a little early for we residents of GMT, but you can find the next months events below. Note that for those a little too early in the morning, you can tune in to the recording a few hours afterwards.