Innovation Showcase

PDC09 – Interoperability @ Microsoft

Bob Familiar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:10:17 GMT

The Interoperability Team was busy this past week at the PDC gathering all the interesting bits on the openness of the Windows Azure platform… What a week, with a lot of announcements, surprises and achievements on multiple fronts. From the interoperability...(read more)

IaaS, PaaS, and the Windows Azure Platform

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:33:50 GMT

One of the uses of Cloud Computing is to provide an environment in which organizations can run their own custom applications in the Cloud. This is important because most organizations today have an IT presence whose purpose is to build custom software...(read more)

Keith Pijanowski on Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:41 GMT

Barton George , cloud computing evangelist at Dell, recently ran into Keith Pijanowski , Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft, and spoke to him about Windows Azure . Check out the video interview on Barton’s Blog Technorati Tags: Windows Azure , Cloud...(read more)

Architect Cafe - Designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:44:18 GMT

Title: Cloud-computing architecture – designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure. November 25, 2009, 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Speaker: Joseph Hofstader Abstract: Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in information technology today. ...(read more)

Architecture Cafe – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:43:33 GMT

Title: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Presenter: Tim Heuer Abstract: Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and...(read more)

Adding Unique Windows 7 Technical Features to XP and Vista Applications

zxue — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:26 GMT

Jason Zander put together a reference application “Image Viewer” that shows how to enable some cool Windows 7 features in your XP or Vista applications with relatively little effort and without sacrificing backward compatibility. Read the blog post for...(read more)

The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:52:20 GMT

Roger Sessions , author of Software Fortresses and Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises , has released a new whitepaper entitled ‘ The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity ’. The world economy is losing over six trillion USD per...(read more)

Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure

wzack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:09:35 GMT

The Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP contains a series of new components that improve the experience of synchronizing with SQL Azure. This download includes runtime components that optimize performance and simplify the process...(read more)

PDC09 - Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework

Bob Familiar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:21:25 GMT

Peter Galli reporting form PDC09… Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and...(read more)

Visiting the Microsoft Retail Store in CA

wzack — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:31:58 GMT

I plan to do a lot of blogging about Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Windows Azure while in LA this week. However this is not one of those posts. I arrived in LA on Friday to spend the weekend with my son who lives there. For...(read more)

Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications

zxue — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:28:59 GMT

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes several sample applications that can help you get started with creating multitouch applications in managed code (C# or VB), native code or MFC. The managed code and native code samples require Visual...(read more)

Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform Release 3.0

jbarnes — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:20:22 GMT

As part of the ongoing collaboration with Facebook, Microsoft released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform ( http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk ). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies...(read more)

Your Own Little (Web) Slice of Heaven

jbarnes — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:04:12 GMT

Sure, she may not know the difference between a Snake bite and a Gigabyte, but even Dolly Parton knows how cool Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices really are… One of the most-honored female country performers of all time, the ageless Dolly Parton is an international...(read more)

ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:16:00 GMT

ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com ‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this interview, with Jeff Barnes from Microsoft, Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, discuss the launch of...(read more)

Windows 7 + Surface + Interknowlogy == Healthcare Innovation

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:54:17 GMT

One of the most important and fastest growing forms of electronic medical records (EMR) today is image data created from a growing variety of radiology devices. X-Rays, CT Scans, MRI, PET Scans, Ultrasound and others are producing an explosion of digital...(read more)