Microsoft's World Wide Partner Conference is going on in Denver. Mary Jo Foley and others have coverage. The first story that caught my eye dovetailed with the Microsoft Watch article I wrote about before.
Microsoft is moving heavily into hosted services. This is more of a threat to the CRM folks but who knows what's next.
From Mary Jo:
Microsoft’s message: Partners need to change. (The unwritten part: Or get the heck out of the way.)
[For those of you keeping score at home, WWPC has 12,000 attendees making it #2 among MS conferences. Convergence (the MBS customer conference that includes Dynamics GP) is currently #3 with 10,000 attendees expected in March of 2008. Tech Ed with 13,000 attendees is #1]