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In a previous post I wrote about my experiences with installing Windows 7 on my Computers and I mentioned that the speakers on my Lenovo T61p do not work with Windows 7. While that was true and little annoying, I usually mute the speakers and use a headset...

Yesterday I installed the Windows 7 Enterprise RTM version on my Laptop, followed by VSTS 2010 beta, and SQL 2008. Everything appeared to be going well, but then later this morning I tried to install some other application and I got a variety of errors...

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One of the big buzzwords today is "cloud computing" these days and it is on the very top of mind with most people. Microsoft's Azure is a key part of Microsoft's strategy to provide a services platform. The first set of a comprehensive HDI’s...

With IE 8 being expected to be released any day now http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2009/03/12/2003438292 the discussions are not only focusing around the new features such as Accelerators or WebSlices, but also on the question of performance...

I posted a few nice interview videos that we did after the Software Architecture Workshop in NYC on Channel9. Check them out :-) Al Perez from Total Computer shares his experiences as early adopter of WPF in an interview with Larry Gregory, Senior Director...

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR. I hope everyone had a nice and relaxing time during the holidays, I certainly did (even though the time was flying by and I had difficulties getting back to work because of airport delays, unscheduled stop over, mobs of people...

Last week I installed the Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 on two of my computers. For my work Laptop I decided to do a fresh install whereas I decided to do an upgrade for my Home PC. New Installation on my Lenovo T61p The clean installation of Windows 7 Beta...

In the past, if anyone asked me if money can buy happiness I would clearly answer with a bold "NO". Reading an article from Harvard Business School might just change this answer in the future. According to the study, giving as little as $5 increases...

Yesterday the product team of Visual Studio team system started to reveal some of the new features in Visual Studio and today the announcements concentrated on the Architecture edition. Watching the screen casts I got really excited about the new capabilities...

Perhaps you saw my post on our team blog about the availability of the Surface SDK to participants of the PDC sessions in LA the end of October. Today I saw something even cooler. Imagine you could use your webcam and move some markers to navigate your...

Before the well deserved weekend, I thought I post something a little bit more on the lighter site. After half a year at Microsoft, many of my friends asking me how I like working for Microsoft. So I started this blog post. I was asking myself; what is...

I figured that most of you are still digesting the announcements from PDC last week, so today I will write about a little off-topic. As one of the last activities for my MBA at NYU Stern I went to China and Vietnam to meet with executives of local companies...

The last 3 years I was working a lot on evolving the Software Factories Paradigm and applying it to industry problems. Part of this effort I spent researching Domain Specific Modeling Languages with the Microsoft DSL Toolkit which is part of the Visual...

June 19th, I will present to the NYC .NET User Group....... Thursday, June 19, 2008 Software Factories, Why Should I Care? This session will present current work done in the area of Software Factories. We will discuss...

Architecture & Design World 2008 I will present on Thursday July 24th at the Architecture and Design World 2008 in Chicago. In this presentation I will discuss the experiences we gained using Microsoft DSLs, within VSTS in a real industry...

I was reading an interesting article about the real innovation drivers in enterprises by Stephen Swoyer. http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3125 The question rendered is: Why does upper management rather approve and finance cost saving...

Next week will be our first ISV Developers Community meeting and Murray Gordon and I are presenting on Composite Rich Internet Applications based on Prism ( http://www.codeplex.com/prism ) and Silverlight ( http://silverlight.net ) . Thanks to Jared Bienz...

In a recent webcast Murray and I introduced the Composite Rich Internet Application (CRIA). As you can see we introduced another four letter acronym (since all the 3 letter ones were already take ;-)) and we explain the implementation of such an application...

Now that my commitments are set for FY09, I did a great presentation on DSLs and Software Factories at Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World 2008 with Christoph Wienends, and drank the cool-aid at MS101 I am now looking forward to a week in Seattle...

TechReady7 was a great experience and after a week of non-stop information in-flow the point of saturation is reached. Lot's of the stuff that was presented is still under NDA, so even though I would like to talk about it I can't ;-(. But stay tuned,...

I just wrote a nice post on guidance packages <=> blueprints on our team blog. So if you are interested in Software Factories, Guidance and Automation, or Blueprints,.... then I recommend reading the post @ http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive...

This blog is based on a group assignment we (the Nutmeg group) had in the operations class at NYU Stern School of Business. I thought it would be of interest, so I just took it and published it here.... Industry Background The software industry...

Good morning and welcome to a new week :-). It was raining all weekend so I took the time to work on some more cloud-ish stuff. I am going to release a few pod casts on the .NET Services soon on Channel 9. Stay tuned…… In the meantime, I just got to know...

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