Full McKinsey article here Reexamining IT for improved performance Executives are anxious to trim spending. Yet a McKinsey survey shows that judicious IT investments can generate short- and medium-term revenue and efficiency gains that greatly exceed...

DevLabs Code Contracts http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/dd491992.aspx Microsoft offers language-agnostic coding technology Code Contracts enables "design by contract" programming for .Net http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/24/Microsoft_offers_language_agnostic_coding_technology_1...

The Office Live Workspace Team has just introduced new features into the Office Live Workspace service – a free service which serves as sort of a “SharePoint-Lite” repository for saving, sharing, commenting on, and organizing your files. In addition to...

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Executive Summary SharePoint buyers expect intuitive navigation, contextual search, and easy administration out of the box. But such benefits depend on how content is structured, labeled, and categorized, and they require a nuanced understanding of how...

Fun and probably true story in Time about the 10 reasons why Facebook is for “Old Fogies”… Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html?imw=Y

There is more big news on the Open Group front these days with the just announced a merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture Organization (GEAO) that will affect the worldwide Enterprise Architecture (EA) professional community. The union between...

Our thinking about "monopoly" may need to be recast in the Internet age . This is a complicated question to consider and we need to start gathering some good minds around it. Network effects were noticed before there was an Internet. Both the...

  Written by Allan Kelly    Monday, 16 February 2009 13:37 Despite our best efforts we need to know what we are going to code before we write the code.  And as much as we might like to test before we write the code we can't really...

On December 19, Gartner revised its categorization of application infrastructure products – specifically its collection of Magic Quadrants – to reflect new market dynamics. Gartner defines application infrastructure as software platforms for the delivery...

Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them. FEBRUARY 2009 • Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 have spread widely among consumers over the past five...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) In this e-mail: | What’s PRISM | Goals | Getting Started | Videos & Presentations | About patterns &...

President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zuckerberg make those connections pay off? Facebook held no appeal...

As organizations' capital budgets dry up, clients evaluating SaaS offerings are finding a market of increasingly viable and mature solutions. Gartner's SaaS agenda focuses on topics that have broad applicability to a wide range of software domain areas...

Key Points · In October 2008, the so-called “Conficker” computer worm was first detected, targeting the Microsoft Windows® operating system by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service. · It is estimated that some three million computers...

Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight , and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro’s (including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu). For those unfamiliar with it, Moonlight...

Overall Page Visit here for the full summary of videos   How Do I…   Get Started Developing on Windows Azure? If you’re a developer and you’re new to Windows Azure, start here! You’ll see what you need to download and install, and how to create...

From Tim Sneath blog, in response to Adobe’s comment on Silverlight http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/02/11/silverlight-is-fizzing-not-fizzling.aspx Silverlight is FIZZING, Not Fizzling Any good politician, regardless of leaning, knows that the...

  We are very excited  to announce that our Q1 release will feature a CTP edition of Telerik RadEditor for Silverlight . This initial version will support the most basic set of features but you can rest assured that there is a lot more cooking...

Read  here to learn what it takes (detailed steps) for taking an ASP.Net Web Application project and making the changes needed to use it as a Web Role in the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio. 

Long but interesting read from : http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/google-next-victim-of-creative-destruction-goog “The web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early...

The Azure Services Training Kit February update now includes the following content covering Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services: · 13 hands-on labs – including 3 new hands-on labs for the Live Framework & Services · 19 new...

With the current state of the global economy, IT managers are  wondering how you can save money while maintaining agility and scalability for your IT organizations. Obvious places to look at are:  1) under-utilized servers that are consuming...

Live Maps Belgium hit the web today as the next country in a wave of localized mapping sites built integrating local knowledge, local listing providers and the Microsoft Virtual Earth API . Belgium has an diverse audience, so leveraging this knowledge...