FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, well with Thanksgiving around the corner and the end of 2015 nearing I want to take the opportunity to wish you and you family for the upcoming festive season. There will still be newsletters for a few more weeks yet. We have decided to make a few changes to the newsletter. These will trickle in during the upcoming weeks but here are a few for this week.
- We have removed the Table Of Contents. While we do want to provide you with this feature unfortunately many email clients do not support this feature.
- The Partner section is a legacy section that is particularly used during major events such as VMworld however as it is not as useful outside of this time for the foreseeable future it has been removed.
- 3rd Party blogs have been removed. In future we will only provide links to VMware blogs either from employees or official VMware blogs source.
- The webcasts is now available online (this change was implemented a few weeks ago)
I hope that these changes streamline and make your newsletter reading more enjoyable. Please feel free to contact you TAM and provide feedback on these and any other changes you might like to see in the future.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA
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