The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is supposed to “add value” to the business. When IT “does all the right things” but fails to add value, one or more of the following is most often the root cause: Attempting to align IT with the business Trying to...

According to Nielsen data out this morning Microsoft’s Bing has passed Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. Nielsen says that Google’s August share is 65% (and growth is flat) but that Bing and Yahoo have now switched places: Although...

In this interview, Bob German , Technology Architect at Microsoft’s Boston MTC, shares his passion of creating Silverlight applications for SharePoint 2010 with Zhiming Xue “Z” while at TechEd 2010.  Bob walks us through some of the improved support...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under its new director, David Kappos , has finally begun to seriously address transparency of information with a new data visualization dashboard. The big lesson? As a number of people who watch the organization have...

Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves using everything the PC and its hardware have to offer. Before IE9, browsers used perhaps 10% of the PC’s capability. IE9 has shown the clear performance...

For those of you still trying to wrap your head around the meteoric rise of social networking over the past decade, this post might hurt a little bit. Because just as you and most of the world were getting a handle on it, the decade of social abruptly...

Just released the Windows Server AppFabric Architecture Guide: http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/5/B/A5B0ED08-844F-4E37-9F0F-BEE9F3043907/AppFabricArchGuide.docx The focus of this document is to provide specific recommendations on how to properly...

You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen. What We're Talking About Before...

Enterprises have traditionally been making new capital infrastructure investments to keep up with growing IT and Web demands. This approach is increasingly cost prohibitive and is becoming so process-intensive that it delays resource availability while...

David Aiken is a Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure . David is responsible for: ·         Bid Now Sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample . ·         Windows...

A recent video interview with Nova Spivack , co-founder of LiveMatrix , discusses the notion of how the real-time web is facilitating a redefinition of what the ‘now’ is. While the immense increase in availability of data and information brought on by...

An interesting blog post by a Gartner Analyst on the future of the Zachman along with some interesting observations: Keep a pragmatic focus on your EA efforts and don’t get distracted by the rumblings, and posturing, of one framework proponent versus...

Microsoft Research is exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the use of any switches or dedicated networking inside a datacenter container. That project, known as CamCube, is one way that Microsoft execs are attempting...

Around the mid-1950s, in the early years of commercial use of computers, all software systems were developed in-house. There was no software industry in existence at that time. 15 As the software industry formed over the next few decades, many organizations...