Check out new videos about Windows Phone 7 on MSDN portal and real devices on Microsoft.com. Also you may want to look some cool WP7 apps demos at Microsoftfeed.com

Microsoft regularly conducts surveys for customers and partners to ask for your open and honest feedback (what we did right or wrong last 6 months). And we’re very much thankful for those who sharing the feedback.

The only only problem that we seems are not able to solve is Junk Email filter  which many times was the reason why people didn’t get the invite for survey = couldn't share the feedback.

So just to make sure you and ourselves are not victim of Junk Email folder:

Please check if you have an email from Feedback@e-mail.microsoft.com with subject “Help Microsoft focus on customers and partners” and share your feedback with us!

We value your feedback very much and looking forward to incorporate it in future planning on our work with IT Community!

P.S. The invite for the survey sent to random sample, so you may be not in this shot, but please make sure you put the e-mail address into “safe contacts” list for future surveys. Thanks a lot in advance!

Tech·Ed Middle East 2011 is going to be bigger and even more exciting. Here's a few of the highlights you can expect:

1. Double bigger community! Yes, we're aiming for 3000 attendees
2. Increased content - over 200 technical sessions
3. Extended Instructor-Labs - more lab sessions and increased facilities
4. A day of Pre-Conference Seminars (optional, additional fees apply)
5. An even bigger line-up of international experts and a formal Ask The Experts program
6. A more extensive Tech·Ed Expo with more Microsoft products in the Technical Learning Centre

And yes, till Dec 31 only  the registration fee is only 750$. Do you have a fellow IT guy? This ticket could be really one of the best New Year gifts. Don’t miss the chance!

Time really flashes by - it’s already 1 year I work in Middle East and Africa. Should say that looking back and seeing tangible results - is always a good feeling :) So here is my glance backward…

But a short confession first. I’m working with truly great people in Microsoft MEA DPE team - only 40 people who drive amazing work on ¼ of the globe. And I’m really proud of being a part of such a great team of multi-talented professionals who were and are able to get very impressive results in limited time.

Just to support my words with a few facts about MEA DPE organization and last 12 month results (and this is only my side of business – while DPE covers many more):

• We’re in touch with 700 000 members of IT community across Middle East and Africa
• We’re regularly communicate with this community through newsletters, blogs and web portals and what’s even more important - locally (in many of 79 MEA countries) and offer unique set of support and free learning opportunities
• We launched TechNet and MSDN portals in Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew
• We ran The Best Job in the World contest (and it was so much fun :))
• We worked with 150+ MVPs across Middle East and Africa

And of course, the beauty of my work is that by job description I should work with the heroes of our time – people who build IT with their own hands. Thank you very much for making my life so busy with tons of interesting things, people, projects and great plans!

P.S. It was my 5th year at Microsoft overall and according to funny internal tradition...

While Microsoft Open Door will bring some of the great content of TechEd’s to countries across Middle east and Africa, TechEd Middle East is going to be a full-size amazing event where you can explore things you learn at Open Door deeper with the best speakers and experts worldwide. Here are some details from organizers.

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Tech∙Ed Middle East returns to Dubai in 2011, March 8 – 10, for 3 full days of deep technical education, hands-on-learning and opportunities to connect with Microsoft and Community experts one-on-one. 

Join the Tech∙Ed Middle East email list and be among the first to receive event announcements and notification when event registration opens.

Why attend Tech∙Ed?

Tech∙Ed provides the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft’s suite of released, or soon to be released, products, solutions and services. Tech∙Ed is for IT professionals and developers who are involved in implementing, deploying or building solutions using Microsoft technologies.