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Microsoft Seeks to Decouple the ‘MB’ From SMB
MINNEAPOLIS — To Microsoft, the small/mid-size business (SMB) segment is no longer a single entity. Here at the company’s annual worldwide partner conference this week, Microsoft is planning to announce new programs aimed at what its officials now claim are two very different and distinct types of businesses. Microsoft is now targeting mid-size customers with…
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Upgrading Typed DataSets in Visual Studio 2005
Typed DataSets are a common feature in .NET development projects. With the release this year of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0, how will your Typed DataSet projects fare in the upgrade process? In this article, I discuss how the 2.0 Typed DataSets differ from the 1.x ones, and how upgrading your projects…
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Microsoft Set to Detail New Vertical, Horizontal Sales Strategies
From Microsoft Watch: It’s time again for Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference. This year, it’s Minneapolis that will do the hosting honors. The Microsoft brass are slated to explain to the more than 6,000 partners in attendance Microsoft’s evolving vertical sales push, as well as its new small-business- and mid-market-focused partner programs for fiscal 2006.…
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Microsoft to Detail Its New Sales Matrix
While Microsoft is expected to use this week’s Worldwide Partner Conference to flesh out its vertical sales push, company brass also are going to detail the small-business and mid-market initiatives that Microsoft will launch in the coming year. Microsoft’s annual partner conference kicks off on Thursday in Minneapolis. More than 6,000 resellers, OEMs, systems integrators,…
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Creating an Appointment Reminder System in C#
As business communication volume increases (it’s hard to imagine), so does the need to keep track of meeting appointments or reminders that something needs to be done at a certain time. Most tools require you to be logged into their system to receive your alerts. In this article, I show you how to create a…
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New Budget PCs Sport High-End Specs
Both Hewlett-Packard and Dell introduced their new budget-friendly “back-to-school” computer lines Wednesday, with dual-core processing options and foot-tall mini towers with serious noise control. The new HP lineup includes a handful of new HP Pavilion Desktop PCs, Media Center PCs, Compaq Presario PCs and a new 21-inch-wide flat-panel monitor. Retail stores will be carrying certain…
