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February 15, 2010
Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series
Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers will be able to purchase the first phones in stores by holiday 2010. Read complete article.
February 12, 2010
Microsoft Silverlight and NBC Bring Winter Games to the Web in High Definition
For the next 16 days, people all over the world will watch the Winter Games on television. Increasingly, they’ll be tuning in online as the world’s top athletes compete for gold and glory. NBC will once again use Silverlight, Microsoft’s fast-growing, smooth-streaming video and animation plug-in for browsers, to bring full coverage and highlights to NBCOlympics.com. In 2008 for Beijing, the NBC-Silverlight partnership yielded not only revolutionary Web coverage of a sporting event, but a record number of viewers: 52.1 million people logged on to watch 9.9 million hours of video. Read complete article.
February 10, 2010
Latin America Partner Group Launches Café Partner
Bienvenido! Latin America has created new community pages called Café Partner for their local partner groups. Check out their new blog, Twitter, and Facebook pages in Spanish.
February 4, 2010
New Partner Competency Summary
Find information to help guide you through the changes as the Microsoft Partner Program completes its evolution to the Microsoft Partner Network. Get a first look at a summary of the benefits and requirements for Microsoft Competencies and Advanced Competencies that will launch in 2010.
