You know that Microsoft's stock has been quite flat those last five years. Consequently, people start asking questions about some of the biggest expense bucket of Microsoft that is: Microsoft Research . Yes, Microsoft spends billions of Dollars in...

Atlas has been extremely popular since the first public CTP release in October 2005 and the momentum has continued to build. In fact, the March CTP, the first release with a Go-Live license , generated over a million visits on the site in just 3 days...

I've just heard that there's a new microsoft.com home page being prepared. Go see for yourself over here . Enjoy.

Earlier today, we had the privilege to have both Steve and Kevin in Seattle to meet their technical people. They were, as usual, great speakers. What I'll remember from what I heard is the following: From Kevin We've done an amazing year and we...

Today has be the 3rd and last day of Architect meetings in Seattle. Tomorrow will start the global sessions in the Seattle Convention Center that is packed with more than 8000 Microsoft employees. This morning has been organized into breakaouts around...

There we are, after a second packed day in Seattle. Whilst yesterday was with the EMEA Architects, today we had the pleasure to meet with the World Wide Architect community at Microsoft. We had very famous names such as: Michael Platt who came an...

We've done a serious working day today in Seattle with some of the EMEA Architects. We met 3 new colleagues from Greece, Romania and Gulf region. We were quite happy to welcome them. Oh yes, did you guys know that July 21st is the National Day in Belgium...

As I was telling in a post a couple of days ago, I needed to go to Seattle (where I am now as I write those lines). My travel agency chose for KLM to go from Brussels to Seattle with a stop in Amsterdam. KLM uses a flight operated by North West Airways...

Windows Live Mail Center beta, previously called Windows Live Mail Desktop is the tool that is meant to allow you to read your Hotmail/Windows Live Mail/Custom Domains mails from a rich desktop application via POP3. It also is applicable to any POP3 server...

Lately, I've seen my live.com homepage updated very nicely with colour, more configuration settings, etc. All in all, this was just a great move . Now, let's focus on this feature/setting called " search only ". I'm quite puzzled with that and I really...

Dear Mr Architect, Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be...

Earlier, in my blogs I was referring to the name .NET 3.0 . This name change has brought serious confusion amongst our customers. Microsoft has put together a very clear and concise set of resources to address this concern: A FAQ is available...

Hi guys, Our colleague Andreas Erlacher just joined Corp to take over the role of AE Role Owner. Useless to say that I'm pretty happy with that decision. Of course, Nina might not be as happy as I am but I'm sure she'll join him sooner or later. ...

Remember my last post about ODF? Things go quite fast in our industry. Indeed, Microsoft has decided to enable the support for ODF format both for reading and writing documents. Microsoft is funding and providing architectural guidance to three...

I had been a Skype user for many months. Recently, Microsoft came up with an alternate solution. This solution is quite youg and lacks some features but hey, one has to crawl before running! ;-) With Windows Live Messenger 8.0 (which is released now...

I've been using Windows from many many years and I came across a feature that I had never heard of (this was explained in a family magazine as a hint for using Windows! :-S) Try it for yourself : Take any folder on your machine, drag it and drop it...

Ludo, our Enterprise Commercial Director, recently shown me the use of Windows Live Local inside of Outlook. This is simply stunning! Imagine organizing a meeting with a customer, Windows Local Live can actually find the driving directions for you...

Many of you heard about it. I talked about it with my Architects more than one year ago. The Microsoft Certified Architect Program is now available. Applications for the Microsoft Certified Architect Program are currently being accepted. Visit Thomson...

Are you considering a Smart Client approach to address the challenges of building Line of Business solutions that interact with many backend systems? Ever wondered what would the architecture and design of a complex UI would look like? Do you need...