Microsoft Australia are doing a cute viral marketing campaign which is aimed to raise awareness of it's Office 2007 product and at the same time donate money to charity. They have said they will donate up to $100,000 to charity based on this campaign. Nice one Microsoft. Anyway - they way they are doing this is via viral marketing. They've got some cute kids telling us all … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2008
Microsoft learns from their mistakes with the SBSCs
In a great example of Microsoft listening to the SBSC partners and learning from their mistakes, Robbie has advised that they are marketing to our SMB customers. http://blogs.technet.com/sbsaustralia/archive/2008/05/15/microsoft-smb-customer-profiling-a-follow-up.aspx Thank you Microsoft for letting us know about this. It shows that you have learnt from your last experience … [Read more...]
New Small Business Specialist Partner (SBSC) Area Lead (PAL) for Australia – Hilton Travis
Now I really don't think Microsoft know what they are in for with this announcement. Late last night, Robbie Upcroft - the Microsoft Australia dude covering the SBSC program and the SBS/EBS product range, made the following announcement to the local SBSC yahoogroup. I've known Hilton for some years now and he's pretty much a nice guy. Sure there are times when I wish he … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Pricing Released
Microsoft have today released the US pricing for Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. The official announcement is here. In addition, they have announced changes in how they will deal with Client Access Licenses (CALs) for SBS 2008 in allowing the purchase of single CAL increments, therefore making it easier for clients to stay correctly licensed. … [Read more...]
USB Flash Drive not working on Windows Vista?
I picked up a 16G Corsair Flash Voyager when I was in the US last month from Frys. It worked fine on my laptop but refused to work on my desktop. Instead I got the dialog box on below requesting drivers for it. Naturally I didn't have drivers for it. I did some digging and found this article on their website. The Corsair website had some helpful FAQ's that I found at this … [Read more...]