This caught my eye, an article in Tech Target on Microsoft's approach to SOA, entitled "Microsoft: The SOA road less traveled" . It talks about the role of various Microsoft products and technologies, including BizTalk Server, and Widnows Communication...

This just in.... Microsoft has just released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of BizTalk Services , a set of hosted services delivered via the Internet to help developers rapidly build and run composite applications at internet scale. At it's core...

Daniel has some good commentary on Microsoft's broad interop efforts and strategy. Dino says check it out .

[Update: this code has been moved to a codeplex project: http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip . Go there for the latest source for ths .NET Zip/compression library. It does ZIP, ZIP64, SFX, passwords, unicode, and streams. All zips are fully interoperable...

This announcement came by in February - IBM is now offering something called the Rational Modeling Extension for .NET for pieces of its Rational software development portfolio. Philosophically, this is the replacement for Rational Rose XDE , the well...