Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA 1) Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance – Project...

Microsoft patterns & practices announces the latest addition to the p&p library of guidance: Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices (white paper) + Agile Development Showcase Quick Links – Agile Development Showcase...

“Oslo” is the code name for a set of modeling technologies currently under development at Microsoft but available as Community Technology Previews since yesterday at PDC. Model based development is not new and has been used over the past 20 years in a...

Check out these documents straight from a cloud – among others the white papers from David Chappell . Content: Azure Services Platform (.pdf file, 2.6 MB) Cloud Platforms Whitepaper (.pdf file, 822 KB) Azure Services Platform Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40...

   Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be "lightweight...

Today we released our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1 . This is our guide to help solution architects and developers make the most of the Microsoft platform. It's a distillation of many lessons learned. It’s principle-based and pattern...

Just to catch your attention…this is not vaporware…AMQP is in production for key banking system at JP Morgan http://www.fsclub.co.uk/past/fsc-181006-jpmorgan-amqp.pdf What is AMQP and what is the role of Microsoft in this? · As part of Microsoft’s ongoing...

Ray Ozzie just publicly announced our Software + Services platform Azure. The Azure Services Platform is built on the Windows Azure operating system in the cloud. Windows Azure provides service hosting and management, scalable storage and a development...

Today we reached a key milestone as the last set of content for this phase hits our BPM site that we recently re-launched ( http://www.microsoft.com/bpm ). This last set of content includes two 10-minute videos that have the goal of delivering our value...

With .NET 3.5 we added support for building RESTFul services.  Now we are building momentum towards enhancements in .NET 4.0 with the WCF REST Starter Kit.  The kit includes features and templates designed to make it simple to build Atom Feeds...

Harvard Business Publishing: Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time How should boardrooms respond to the macro crisis? Is it just a case of recession-as-usual: budget-paring, personnel-slashing, and portfolio-trimming? Not a chance...

After nearly a year in development, Small Basic is getting announced today to the world as part of the Dev Labs project , by S. Somasegar .  Small Basic is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small...

CIOs need flexibility in shifting between their leadership and managerial hats to ensure efficient operations, given today’s financial/economic crisis Today, the financial and economic climates in the U.S. are no longer what they used to be in light of...

Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities · Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone. · There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2. · Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2....

Common Zone Patterns Zone architectures can be created in an unlimited number of ways based on an organization's unique context and needs. Zones can be differentiated by technology, organization, application portfolios, or combinations of all three. The...

· 40% of all working Belgian people feels “overloaded with information” · 60% of all business calls end in a Voicemail system · 67% of business instant messaging conversations end in a phone call · The last 2 year 34.6 million euros was wasted on “Voicemail...

As offshore outsourcing clients continue to feel the pain of providers' resource constraints and escalating costs in India, they are more inclined than in the past to switch providers. Although this is never an easy option, there are ways to protect your...

During this event the attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies. see more info on http://lucfields.spaces.live.com/blog/cns...

Just in time for PDC, we are pleased to announce Issue 17 of the Architecture Journal!  You can download the issue here . The theme of this issue is Distributed Computing , and features articles from many MS product groups,  MS Platform Architecture...

Over the past year Microsoft Silverlight has led the way for developers and designers to create compelling media experiences and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) on the Web via an easy to use, quickly installed browser plug-in. With the release of Silverlight...

Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology (Gartner Research, Sept. 30, 2008) Microsoft is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology. This report assesses vendors with capabilities...

  Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” Announcement Microsoft  announces via significant improvements to our existing Windows Server capabilities in the form of enhancements to both the .NET Framework and extensions to the application server...