Microsoft APC 2016 photo gallery: It's a wrap
By Heather Wright
Fri 9 Sep 2016
FYI, this story is more than a year old
As attendees at Microsoft's annual Australia Partner Conference head back to work - no doubt a little the worse for wear - we take a look back at this year's event, which saw a record 1300+ delegates from nearly 500 companies head to the Gold Coast to hear how to 'define your future'.
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