SBSC PAL for CEE Region

I'm very happy to announce that for third consecutive year Microsoft renewed my status of Partner Area Lead for the central and eastern region of Europe. Now we are 2 PALs in Slovenia.
If you don't know what the SBSC PAL is you can visit this Web site. There you can find who is the PAL for your region.
If you are a Microsoft Small Business Specialist and you would like to know more about what the program can offer you please contact me. If you have doubts or suggestions about the SBSC program and you would like me to take it directly to Microsoft I would love to help.

Microsoft's new experiment: new Windows code name Mojave

I think it is interesting to see how Microsoft is managing a new strategy to clean the face of Windows Vista. What do you think about Mojave experiment?
Click here to learn about it.

Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston

It was a great event! I had the chance of meeting very important persons, very interesting and clever people and definitively I'm now home with a backpack full of new things to think about.
There is a lot of information useful for Microsoft partners and I will try to update the conclusions and thoughts on a new Blog. Click here to visit it and see some of the pictures.

From Yahoo side:

I think that makes more clear some of the concepts that rules on companies like Yahoo!
I hope Microsoft will take advantage of the experience and I hope that Yahoo! will reinvent itself. I'm personally convinced that both of them independently can and should fight stronger with Google.

My comments about the Yahoo and Microsoft situation

Do you think Microsoft and Yahoo will hear our opinions about their "business"?

I think that they would if many of us would talk about it. So I dared to publish my comments and advise to each company about that interesting transaction.
Click here to read the article.

sneak peak:

My opinion: The Microsoft Strategy for future

Looks to me like the strategy of Microsoft for the future is in some way like the strategy of Nintendo for the Wii console.

It means that they will not be so worried about the desktop operating system but they will be centered on Windows Live. Why? because it is the best place where to store all your information and at the same time being independent of the hardware you use. You could access your photos, music, documents, emails from a telephone, any computer, etc.

If that is true that means that the next OS from Microsoft will be a very light one and focused on offering security and speed without focusing too much on hardware requirements... like that you could use older computers and enjoy the same. But for enjoying it you will have to have hardware that runs with Microsoft OS. Other OS would also get access but you would probably not enjoy all the benefits. Something like happens today with Hotmail if you open it with Firefox or Opera.

The fact is that all that strategy would work specially well with individuals and students. Within companies the rules are probably going to be different. With hybrid systems: non critical services hosted on the Internet and critical ones hosted internally.

Nintendo thinks to make slow renewals of the Wii console but periodical updates on the software.

Microsoft thinks to make less important and less frequent changes on Windows but more frequent updates on Windows Live services.

Please take this opinion just like what it is, an opinion.

Turning The Pages 2.0

You can see the online Gallery clicking here.

Windows Live Hotmail - problems?

I use Hotmail even before it was bought by Microsoft. And I'm very satisfied with it.
Now I can use it in Firefox and Safari with almost the same characteristics as from Internet Explorer and we have more storage space to enjoy.
But today I had a unique problem that I hope will be solved fast:

"Windows Live Hotmail couldn't send your message because the server was busy. Please try again later".
I'm posting this message with the hope that some guy from Microsoft would check it... and take it to the right hands. I think it is a critical problem to solve.

Small Business Specialists

Microsoft created a program to recognize the ability of some of their partners to attend and fulfill the needs of small business. The name of that program is Microsoft Small Business Specialists.
B4Contact, where I'm working, is one of them and because of that we are building a group of Small Business Specialists(SBS). So if you are one of them, no mater from which country, your are invited to participate. Just visit the home page of the group: https://www.xing.com/net/smallbs/