SPLA is relevant if you host your solution for your clients or if you are looking to move to SaaS. It has popped up a few times in recent discussions and I was about to give a brief explanation here when I spotted a US colleague had already done a great...

My post on CRM as an application platform sparked a fair bit of interest amongst UK ISV's. If you want to know more I suggest you add the blogs of two of our evangelists to your fave RSS reader. Both specialise in helping ISVs with Microsoft CRM. Ben...

Curious about what will be in Katmai? Then check out the two page overview .

Apologies for the delay - I have been trying to pull together a complete list of answers which is taking time. 1. How does Softricity fit into the Longhorn Virtualization story This is an evolving strategy between System Center, Terminal Services, Viridian...

When looking at architecting for on-demand, the subject of single tenancy vs multi tenancy always comes up. When looking at multi tenancy, the subject of row level security often follows. Why? Well - multi tenancy at its extreme means all the tenants...

As promised here are some useful links from our session today with UK ISVs interested in SaaS. Litware http://www.codeplex.com/litwarehr Office Live http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905514.aspx Microsoft CRM http://blogs.msdn.com/mm/ Biztalk...

As promised here are some useful links for my session yesterday and the Q&A at the end: SaaS Architecture http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas Sample Application LitwareHR http://www.codeplex.com/litwarehr Three day workshop on Litware SaaSArchitectureWorkshop...

I think we have a well kept secret - Microsoft Dynamics CRM is not actually a CRM system (well - technically it is but stay with me). Microsoft Dynamics CRM could also be called the even more catchy "Microsofts rich platform for building a lot of brand...

When I joined Microsoft in 1996 I was most certainly a developer first, solution architect second. During the last 11 years I have tried to stay competent in both roles. However year on year we are asked to do more - engage with more organizations, increased...

We have made two significant announcements in the last few weeks as part of our "cunning plan" to deliver on our Software + Services vision. I need to digest these more fully but they are worthy of sharing even before I fully understand them :-) Combined...

Workflow Foundation has proved to be extremely interesting to ISVs in 2006. One of its strengths is the flexibility to extend it to enable it to be used in innovative ways. Hence I am always excited to see what ISVs have been using it for. One such ISV...