Launch Central for U.S. Partners

In today's The Learning Curve newsletter, our training-focused communication to U.S. members of the Microsoft Partner Program, we included some tasty information about Windows 7, in preparation for the Release Candidate, which will be available on 4/30 to TechNet and MSDN subscribers and broadly available on May 5, per the Windows 7 Team Blog.  Here are some other things you can do to prepare:

• May 7 - Attend our Virtual Partner Readiness Day. At this free virtual event, partners will have the opportunity to learn about Windows 7 from Microsoft executives and product experts and can take advantage of the readiness and marketing tools available to help prepare them for Windows 7 business opportunities. Register to attend on the Partner Learning Center.

• Windows 7 Training Opportunities

• Featured Training Partnercast: Windows 7 in 7 Minutes -- Enterprise Demo (Sales, 7 minutes) Partnercast: Desktop Optimization and Windows Vista (Sales, 11 minutes) The Road to Windows 7: Part 1 (Sales, 1 hour) The Road to Windows 7: Part 2 (Sales, 1 hour) Windows 7: Application Compatibility (Technical, 1 hour) Find more training on Windows 7 on the U.S. Learning Plan Tool: Windows 7 Sales Training and Windows 7 Technical Training.