One of the most impressive elements on the Microsoft PDC Show floor has been a Windows Azure showcase container. Designed by Microsoft and built by Dell , this impressive piece of hardware is a key for our datacenter strategy that reduces the time it...

MIX 2010 has been concluded last week and it showed that Microsoft is the only company that has a developer environment that allows to use the same skills and tools to develop for Web, Phone, fat client, Surface and xBox. Below a short overview of the...

Interesting article how IDC sees the whole cloud story. An extract: The Microsoft of the cloud Gens showed a slide comparing the software markets over a decade period. In 1997, Microsoft Windows software controlled just 9 percent of the total software...

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud with news, features, tips, and tricks. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow In this special MIX episode: Get the inside scoop on the Windows Azure Presentations at...

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow In this episode: Learn how to use the CDN capabilities to move blob resources closer to your users Get the latest news...

In this episode , Damon Squires , principal architect at RDA , discusses with Zhiming Xue where in a typical enterprise solution Microsoft Azure AppFabric -- consisting of the Service Bus and the Access Control Service -- may be used, how on-premise data...

ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported framework that enables developers to quickly build standards-based, SEO-friendly Web sites by offering complete control over the HTML and URLs. The latest release introduces extensible client-side validation, enhanced...

Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine , Paul Hamnett, VP of Engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeney, Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new...

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric team has released the AppFabric LABS environment . This is a new environment which the team will use to showcase some early bits and get feedback from the community. Usage for this environment will not be billed. AppFabric...

Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during your favorite sporting events? Chyron is the industry leader in all aspects of providing graphics for TV programming. Jim Cirone sits down with Jeff Wolski...

Join Ryan and Steve this week as they cover the Microsoft cloud.  You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow In this episode: Learn how to host other web servers in Worker Roles. Hear about some new tools for working with SQL Azure...

Just released by Patterns and Practices. A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information you...

An interesting interview as part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C. This one is with Paul Cotton about the cooperation of Microsoft in the HTML working group: Some interesting...

Today, Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, spoke to a group of students and faculty at the University of Washington to discuss how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. His goal was to challenge people to look at the cloud...

A couple of weeks ago I posted an interesting article about hotmail architecture. This week a new article has been posted explaining how the Messenger cloud is kept up and running. An extract: In building the Messenger service we've always focused on...

Last week we announced Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2. A new video is available showing how to install the latest bits. Byron Tardiff the setup program manager from the AppFabric team, is walking us through two ways you can install Windows Server AppFabric...

The art of questioning yourself… Are software architects necessary? Nobody denies the need for software architecture, but many challenge the idea that you need a dedicated software architect to get it. Michael Stiefel compares software to painting...

After more than a decade of refining the Internet as a marketplace, the business world is grappling with the uneasy reality that companies can run almost every information system they rely on without owning any tech equipment. Thanks to the phenomenon...

Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is available for download. First publicized at PDC 2009, Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications. Developers...

Steve was in Japan this week filming a commercial, so David Aiken replaced him. Join Ryan and David this week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. Follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow In this episode: Walk through the RoleEntryPoint...

While it's income season for most of us here in the States, for CCH , a Wolters Kluwer business, serving up sales tax information is a full-time job. In this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Jones Pavan and Gurleen Randhawa at the 2009...

One of the cloud related questions we get with some frequency is: who’s winning the marketing battle? For all that the cloud has (justifiably) become a much maligned term for technologists, thanks to the liberal abuse of the term by marketers everywhere...