Innovation Showcase

Several financial services customers recently shared their Windows 7 deployment stories with Microsoft, and emphasized the advanced power management, lower TCO and utilization costs and improved performance they’re seeing. More detail here .

The wait is over; you can now download the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh from the Windows Phone web site at http://developer.windowsphone.com . With this CTP, you can develop and test Windows Phone 7 apps on the RTM version of Visual Studio...

HOW DO I ENTER? You can enter by visiting the web site for the Sweepstakes and completing all of the registration requirements including completion of a short survey. All required survey questions must be answered to receive an entry. We will only accept...

DreamFactory Software is a leading publisher of rich web applications for cloud platforms. The DreamFactory Suite delivers enterprise class project, document and data collaboration software to over 10,000 businesses using different cloud platforms. ...

Microsoft just announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded Standard 7 . Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of the Original Equipment Manufacturer Division at Microsoft, shared more insight around recent OEM and partner activities...

In this blog post by Jeff Barnes , he tells the story of the highly successful Outback Bloomin’ Onion Facebook campaign that was presented at the Cloud Computing Expo event held last week in NYC.  In the brave new world of Social Networking - one...

Did you know that IE9 now includes a nice set of built-in Networking Tools? The new IE9 developer tools include some new capabilities and improvements over the great tools in IE8: A new tab for inspecting network traffic. Improved performance working...

SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can...

Here are the links to the SQL Server 2008 R2 Express editions now available for download: Express Package If your system is? If your system is? If your system is? Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Express X86 X64 WOW64 Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Express...

The Microsoft Report Viewer control enables applications that run on the .NET Framework to display reports designed using Microsoft reporting technology. In server mode , the ReportViewer control can connect to and leverage the features of SQL Server...

Looking for an easy way to page thru your result sets ->server-side? Check-out this blog post for an easy walk-thru of how to easily enable data paging with WCF Data Services.  WCF Data Services - enables the creation and consumption of OData...

Check-out these great new Power Tools just released for TFS 2010: Alerts Explorer A plug-in to Visual Studio, Alerts Explorer provides a graphical user interface that supports flexible subscription of alerts based on check-in, work item change, or build...

Building Complex Applications using WPF or Silverlight? The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. These types of applications...

Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended...

PowerPivo t gives users the power to: Create compelling self-service BI solutions… Facilitate sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment.. Enables IT organizations to increase operational...

Looking for an easy way to run performance profiling all your cool new Silverlight applications?  Did you know that Visual Studio 2010 has the tools – you just need to know how to find and start them ;-) Check-out this blog post about the profiler...

I’ve been showing customers some of Windows multitouch applications that come with the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7, but had to tell them that the Pack is only available on machines and devices made by Microsoft OEM partners. I have good news to...

OuterLink , based in Lowell, MA, builds high value asset tracking and communication technology. OuterLink creates the technology that allows users to track the location of their high value assets (aircraft, ambulances, etc.) in real-time on an interactive...

Why is Azure important? Have you wondered how cloud computing can bring your ideas to the web faster? Reduce your IT costs? Or be able to respond quickly to changes in your business and customer’s needs? If so, then you need to find out what Windows...

Remember the DinnerNow sample application? Well, that was a connected web application and was introduced and updated last year before Windows Azure was available. The Bid Now sample application, along with source code, has just been released and available...

This week I had the privilege of attending the Cloud Computing Expo in New York at the Jacob Javits Center. I was very impressed with how the attendance and interest had increased from last years' event. There were scores of vendors there hawking everything...

Brian Hitney , Jim O’Neil and John McClelland are running a WebCast program that will guide you through the process of building and deploying a large scale Azure application. In less than two hours they will build and deploy a real cloud app that...

In a recent interview with David Meyer, senior reporter at ZDNet UK,  Charlie Kindel, head of development for Windows Phone 7, shares his view and thoughts on a number of interesting topics, ranging from rich user experience, multitasking, application...

Currently in Beta , Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7. The Windows team has published a decent blog post with much detail on the new solution. Check it out here . You may also watch...

With a recent upgrade from Microsoft, Windows XP Mode will NO LONGER require hardware virtualization technology to run . This is great news for anyone and any organization that plans to run Windows XP mode on machines with CPUs that are not equipped with...