Powers Unfiltered

An entrepreneur’s journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers

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Innovation!!

July 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Digipede is the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year!
A huge thank you to all our customers, partners, and the increasingly large, vocal, and supportive Microsoft chapter of the Digipede Fan Club.
I will have more details on this announcement, and on our experiences at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference some time soon, but I wanted to [...]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Uncategorized

At the Microsoft WPC in Denver

July 10th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m in Denver today for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which starts tomorrow.  The big event this year, or course, will come on Wednesday, when we find out who will be the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year!  Did I mention that Digipede is a finalist?  Digipede is a finalist.  So are worthy contenders Fractal Edge [...]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft

Microsoft vs. Microsoft — here we go again

June 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I will post another million positive things about the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC) any day now.  Promise.  I love this event.  Honest.  But for now — arrrg.  Microsoft’s use of its own tools is driving me nuts.  Here we go again. 
As many of you know, I’m a big fan of large conferences, under certain [...]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Usability

Missed Buzz at WPC

July 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Apparently, Buzz Bruggeman was at the Microsoft WPC in Boston, blogging away, and I missed him again.  I am in danger of becoming the last person on earth he has not met.  Anyway, he has good posts about the event, including one about the presentation by Andy Lees I attended.
Not surprisingly, he liked the “Structured [...]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations