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Making effective sales requires a thorough understanding of your products. From licensing information and price lists to product support and much more, we'll help you become thoroughly acquainted with Microsoft's offerings, enabling you to sell with confidence.

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		Learn How to Qualify for the Windows Vista Logo The next major release of the Windows client operating system, Windows Vista (formerly code-named "Longhorn"), will be available in 2007. Windows Vista will deliver major improvements in user productivity, important new capabilities for software developers, and significant advances in security, deployment, and reliability. Learn more about Windows Vista.

		Windows Vista 101: Learn the Basics Prepare your business for the pivotal release of Windows Vista. Start by testing your knowledge by taking the Windows Vista mini-course. You'll get a sneak preview of the Microsoft marketing approach and find details about how to prepare your organization for this exciting launch. More...

		Online Demos: Exchange Server 2007 Sneak Peek Learn how new capabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 can help your customers. Watch more than 20 different online demonstrations on topics such as antivirus and antispam protection, Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, and Unified Messaging. Learn more.

		What's New in Windows SharePoint Services? Learn about Windows SharePoint Services version 3 -- what it offers as an application service for Windows Server 2003 and as a platform for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn more.

		Empower Subscribers: Important Changes To Your Software Benefits Beginning this month, you will receive Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with an MSDN Premium Subscription, which is an upgrade to the MSDN Universal Subscription you currently receive. Visual Studio 2005 will arrive in your Empower Monthly Toolkit. For more information, contact your Regional Service Center. Empower Your Development on the Microsoft Platform Build applications faster and at a lower cost with Microsoft Empower for ISVs. Enroll to receive an MSDN subscription and licenses for internal use, and get on the fast track to becoming a Microsoft Certified Partner.

		Products and Solutions Microsoft offers an array of products and business solutions that can help your customers automate processes, make more profitable decisions, and accelerate growth. In this section, we provide a variety of resources for planning, building, selling and deploying Microsoft products and business solutions.

		Product Support View support information, common issues, downloads, related sites, instructions, troubleshooters and more. All the product support you need in one place.

		Technical Support Microsoft has created direct lines of support for technology and solutions partners. From field sales to deployment and ongoing maintenance, Microsoft Partner Program Technical Support helps you win and retain new business.

		Innovation Starts Here Find out how emerging companies have partnered with Microsoft to increase revenue, reduce costs, and gain an edge on the competition. These success stories from the Microsoft Emerging Business Team demonstrate how companies have successfully built on the Microsoft foundation. These brochures are distributed widely to Microsoft product groups and partners to expose the innovative companies within them. Download now! Volume I Volume II Volume III

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		Visual Studio 2005 Training: Power in Simplicity Watch this series of on-demand webcasts and find out how the integrated tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System can help you be more productive throughout the stages of application development. View the webcasts today! What's more, jump-start your development with the Visual Studio 2005 Beta as Tim Landgrave explains how the "Go-Live" license allows you to use Visual Studio 2005 in customer applications right now. View the column

		MS Office Information Bridge Framework Rapidly develop solutions that empower end users to consume and act upon line-of-business information within the Microsoft Office System. To find out more about Information Bridge Framework, view our flash demo.


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