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Latest News

MIX 08 sessions now available online (Mar 08)
SharePoint Conference 2008 Keynote with Bill Gates (blog post, Mar 08)
Office Developer Conference 2008 Keynote with Bill Gates (blog post, Feb 08)

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News and Strategy

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art (Apr 08)
The GigaOM Interview: Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsot Corp (Mar 08)
SharePoint Conference 2008 Keynote with Bill Gates (blog post, Mar 08)
Office Developer Conference 2008 Keynote with Bill Gates (blog post, Feb 08)
Windows Principles: press release announcing Microsoft's tenets for competition on the desktop (i.e. what people are allowed to do with the OS) (July 06)

Training and Technical Resources

Technical Rollup Mail (UK blog summarising latest updates)
MIX sessions online
Channel 9 @ MSDN
Channel 8 @ MSDN (for students)
TechNet web casts
Virtual Labs (MSDN and TechNet)
Presentations from UK events
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (presentations and stuff, July 2007)
MS Public Sector Partner Executive Summit 2007 presentations (Oct 2007)

Tips and Tricks

Ultimate list of free software from Microsoft (blog post, Aug 2006)
Use MSN Encarta as your personal encyclopaedia. Add encarta@botmetro.net to your IM contact list, then ask it questions.
Boost Virtual PC performance
Probably isn't the place to mention it, but did you know you can use Google to search Microsoft's web site? Check out http://www.google.com/microsoft

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