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The Business of Windows Azure – Patterns, Pricing, and Promotions in 32 minutes
Get part 1 of this post, here . If you are a customer, partner or competitor of Microsoft, you’ll want to review Windows Azure Platform Business Model “Transforming to a services business” by Dianne O’Brien, Sr. Director of Business Strategy at Microsoft. Read More...
I’d Like To Teach The World to Cloud – Windows Azure Present and Future
On a time budget and looking for a great video that gives you a vantage point of what is Windows Azure and what’s next for it? I’d like to suggest this 1 hour session from the Microsoft PDC: Windows Azure Present and Future (SVC13) by Manuvir Das . As Read More...
Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life?
eek! Finally the wait is over and the Microsoft PDC gets into full gear next week in LA. I’m one of the fortunate ones able to attend in person – meet new folks, rekindle old friendships and forge partnerships with the various Microsoft product teams. Read More...
SharePoint 2010 Tree of Life – Resource Roundup
eek! I stumbled upon this neat mind map of the SharePoint 2010 developer platform : From the website: The SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform wall poster shows a colorful view of SharePoint 2010 developer tools, community ecosystem, execution environment, Read More...
PowerShell Happy from Windows 7 to Windows Azure
eek! Say hello to the Windows Management Framework starring our dear friend PowerShell 2.0. Read more here . Why is this cool/important? You now have the power with PowerShell to manage all your favorite Windows flavors (XP to 7 to Server 2008 R2) and Read More...
WPF 4 making Windows 7 Applications shine!
eek! I really dig Scott Guthrie’s latest blog post on the WPF 4 Improvements and Lighting Up Windows 7 applications planned for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. With all the excitement around Windows 7, its time to jumpstart that killer application and Read More...
Local happenings to get Smarter on ASP.NET, F#, LINQ and More!
eek! A couple of local (from my perspective) community run events that are usually a good deal in terms of mind expansion. Got a Saturday to get smarter? Join your peers for the 3rd annual Fairfield/Westchester Code Camp on Saturday November 7, 2009. Read More...
Finding Gems – Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit
eek! You know I’m a fan of the Training Kits – neatly packaged smarts across an array of Microsoft technologies – Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2, ASP.NET MVC, etc. The latest revision to the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 beta training kit does not Read More...
Customers make it real! Notes from our Innovation Showcase
eek! A personal thank you to Iconics for showing off their very cool Windows 7 application at our Innovation Showcase over the past few weeks. Iconics’s application was designed to exploit several features of Windows 7 – the Taskbar, Jump Lists, Windows Read More...
Happy Feel Good Friday - How Would You Change the World?
Hope you are having a great week and welcome to another feel good friday ! Have you seen the new 7 ways to change the world with Windows 7 contest? How would you change the world?   From the site: Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States Read More...
The New Efficiency Resources for Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Sessions
eek! To the attendees at our New Efficiency launch events in Boston and New York – thank you for your time and attention. Here are the slides from the sessions and a brief recap: Windows Server 2008 R2, Build Solutions that Scale Beyond 64 Processors Read More...
I love the new MSDN – Happy Birthday to me!
eek! I know it’s been a hectic few days if you develop on the Microsoft platform. The SharePoint team is enjoying a lot of oohs and aahs from IT pros and developers, as they unveil features of SharePoint 2010 . Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework Read More...
Mark your calendars for an Azure Ninja – Oct 22 in Cambridge, MA
eek! I guess that Windows 7 thing isn’t the only cool thing to blossom on Oct 22, 2009. You can join the kickoff to the first Boston Azure Users Group on Oct 22, 2009 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm @ the Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, MA . Azure Ninja? Judging from Read More...
The 30/30 for students and recent graduates starting October 21
eek! Looking for 30 minutes of technical training and 30 minutes of soft skills training? You’ll probably want to catch the Microsoft Students to Business Fall Webcasts . First in the fall session is Microsoft Azure - An introduction to Cloud Computing Read More...
Shhh, SharePoint Secrets Revealed
eek! If you are like me, you’ve probably been waiting too! I wasn’t lucky enough to make it to the SharePoint Conference 2009 but I’ll be watching the keynote ( streamed live! ) that happens today at noon US Eastern time! I’ve heard a lot of rumors about Read More...
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