Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here. There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues is influenced by partners. How to start partnering with Microsoft Become a partner. The first step is ...

Last week I sat down with Deborah Gage of the San Francisco Chronicle. We talked about how I came to work at Microsoft and what my mission here is, as well as how Microsoft works with software startup companies, how we acquire and integrate them into our businesses. You can read the entire article, Vice president nurtures Microsoft's relations, ...

Dan'l Lewin is Microsoft's Corporate VP for Strategic and Emerging Business, based in Silicon Valley. I work in Dan'l's organization so it was a treat to read a story in the Chronicle about Dan'l's work with VCs and startups around the world. Dan'l is a legend in Silicon Valley where he was one of the early employees at Apple, and later started ...

Recently, we received a request from New Zealand to repost a blog by Don Dodge. We discovered a cool company in New Zealand that is helping start-ups in New Zealand succeed in the global online space. It's interesting how many similar and also creative efforts are taking place around the world to help startups succeed.    The company, ...

March 24, 2008 | San Francisco, California | The Palace Hotel Based on the success of last year's forum and request for similar events from attendees, Microsoft is pleased to announce the second Open Source ISV Forum for solution providers using open source and open commercial software. This forum is for senior executives and decision makers ...

  IdeaBlade, Inc. EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA www.ideablade.com   Achieved Profitability and Microsoft Gold Partner Status Build better apps—faster. IdeaBlade’s application server and development framework accelerate the development of Microsoft .NET enterprise applications—enabling developers to focus on delivering ...

Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V. I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently served by their partners. This is primarily because their investors have their feet to the ...

  Last week, we officialised an 8 months partnership with Talend, a french Open Source ISV, editing an ETL called Talend Open Studio. (Backed by AGF Private Equity & Galileo Partners). Talend is both a competitor and a partner for Microsoft: more than 70% of their users base runs on Windows and we have a competitive offer called ...

Today I spent the afternoon and evening at the Second Chance Tuesday event in London. In the afternoon there was an ''Early Stage Funding Workshop'' for an audience of about 100 companies, which consisted of a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and investors talking about what setting up and investing in a business is really like. Richard ...

Kaulkin Information Systems (KIS) is a software and solution services company that offers simple, yet powerful and affordable, multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business process management (BPM), document management, workflow and compliance technologies for heavily regulated and compliance-centric industry sectors. The company’s flagship ...