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Do you think in a world of html, cloud, services and startups that the term Independent Software Vendor is still relevant? For (brief) background: From Wikipedia: “Independent software vendor (ISV) is a business term for companies specializing in making or … Continue reading → ...read more

With the monitoring pack you can now check on the availability and performance of your applications running on Windows Azure from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. The great news is there is a VHD you can download to try … Continue reading → ...read more

Subsequent to the September 12th workshop (which I previously blogged on ) we will be delivering Workshops every month on the second Tuesday: October 11th November 8th December 13th January 10th These monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform are … Continue reading →

Whist reading through Architecture of Tankster– Scale (Part 2) I noted that Nathan had looked at some of the performance and size limitations of the Windows Azure Platform and how they would impact the architecture of the solution. I have … Continue reading →

Well, the short answer is I have absolutely no idea. I have never used one in anger but have played around with Git and Mercurial. I can say with confidence that I am impressed with the promise of DVCS. Eric … Continue reading →

Imagine the surprise when I opened my birthday presents today to find this creation from my 17 year old. Seriously….imagine it Currently looking for a suitable name Posted from WordPress for Windows Phone

Using http://clarius.codeplex.com/releases/view/6626   Which then needs some text: “The options deserve some more explanation besides being quite obvious: Target blog: this is a dropdown that shows all the blog accounts you have currently registered...

I like it when my work life meets my gaming life and this is one of those moment. The toolkit for social games helps developers take advantage of the scalability of the Windows Azure Platform and includes a sample called … Continue reading →

Bloggers who write about ISV “stuff”. And if you were wondering what an “ISV” is … well, it means “Independent Software Vendor” and will be the subject of a future post UK ISV Team Blog – my teams blog UK … Continue reading →

Technically there are lots of way to do this already (including AzureWatch which I blogged on back in June) but it was great to see this week details on what we are working on as part of the new Windows … Continue reading →

I just checked and we are down to our last couple of spaces for this workshop. Check out the full details. P.S. We will be repeating the workshop monthly but we haven’t yet advertised the dates. Related Links: Sign up … Continue reading →

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And … all looking well. Checked: - Code snippets can be handled - Slideshare can be handled - Youtube can be handled - Additional analytics can be handled (needed to switch from google to statcounter and getclicky as no javascript) … Continue reading →

August 2011 and time for a new blogging platform … and the winner is … WordPress. The plan is to consolidate all my work, personal and gaming blogs into one place – whilst also getting access to the community and … Continue reading →

SQL Server “Denali” is at CTP3 – and would therefore very much welcome feedback. SQL Azure continues an aggressive cycle of release -  and would therefore very much welcome feedback. Which is why we have https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback . A great place to give feedback and to to see what others care about. For SQL Azure (and the Windows Azure Platform in general) we also have http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com Thanks in advance…

Guy who runs the excellent DotNetDevNet user group out of Bristol posted back in June on the top speakers from the first 50 meetings and let me know I made the top 10 for knowledge (Cough! ) and presentation skills (I have skills! Wow ) Well, I’ve finally revisited his post to have a proper look and … what a great line up to be in. Above me are the likes of Steve Sanderson , Richard Campbell and Mike Taulty . I’ll take that. Sweet. Thanks Guy.

This post on the Windows Azure blog caught my eye as a) it includes UK early adopter eTVMedia and b) its an interesting look at the wider picture of adopting Windows Azure – including coming up with the business strategy and transitioning a traditional company to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It touches on: organizational structure: Looking at the trend to create new entities to pursue SaaS packaging and pricing: A SaaS app does not necessarily mean a move away from upfront billing changing from...

Ok… it doesn’t really but this still cheered my Thursday eve. Whilst perusing the blog of BF3   I spotted that publisher behemoth EA  were doing an “innocent poll” on mobile devices.  As background, BF3 is arguably the game of 2011 which puts PC gaming back on the map for mainstream FPS fans, easily outshining what will be available for Consoles. It is also worth pointing out that the poll isn’t so innocent in the sense that EA are making a massive push into mobile gaming – which also happens to...

MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! Microsoft Learning hosted a Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (plus an update course) last year and it was an absolute smash.  Now that "Mango" has made such a huge splash, they have put together another great course. This two-day live virtual class, Building Applications for Windows Phone Mango Jump Start , is specially tailored for developers looking to build cool applications and games for the new Windows Phone Mango Platform. Get in the pizza/popcorn/healthy...

The Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with developers and users in the form of surveys. If you have 15mins spare and would like to do your bit to help shape the roadmap for SQL Server then please pop over to http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CS45XT9FE/ And… My own simple one question version if you only have one minute to spare. Apologies in advance for stuff I left out! Related Links: More details of the survey are posted on the ADO.NET team blog

In September we will start to deliver monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform to help Microsoft partners who are developing software products and services and would like to explore the relevance and opportunities presented by the Windows Azure Platform for Cloud Computing. Overview: The workshops are designed to help partners such as yourself understand what the Windows Azure Platform is, how it is being used today, what resources are available and to drill into the individual technologies...

I often get asked about how we are using Windows Azure internally and under NDA I can share some of the details – but its great to be able to point publicly at some of the excellent work that has been going on. And they are genuine technical case studies …  hurrah! :-) How Microsoft IT Deployed a Customer Facing Application to Windows Azure in Six Weeks Learn how the Microsoft IT Volume Licensing team gained experience with Windows Azure by focusing on a straightforward, isolated customer-facing...

A new blog has appeared from the engineering team to have a two-way dialog with you about design choices, real-world data and usage, and new opportunities that are part of Windows 8. We showed you a preview of Windows 8 in June, demonstrating the user experience and providing an update on ARM SoC support . The next major event for Windows is our BUILD conference in September, where we will provide developers with more details about the full spectrum of tools and capabilities available to make the...

Internet Explorer 10 was voted highly in a small survey last week of UK ISVs looking at the significance of new Microsoft technologies to their own product roadmaps. Hence it is a timely to point out that last week we released IE10 Platform Preview 2 which is is now available for download at http://ietestdrive.com There are plenty of new demos to look at but I also recommend you check out: Channel 9 videos on IE 10 Platform Preview 2 (listed below) the engineering team's blo g . the  Internet Explorer...