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The Big Partner Event in the Big Easy

The location for next year's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is set. Allison Watson, corporate vice president for the Worldwide Partner Group, said this morning that the show will be held in New Orleans in July 2009.

It will mark a return to the Big Easy, which was the location of the first Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in October 2003.

Posted by Scott Bekker on July 10, 2008


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