What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar . http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Windows-Azure-a-conversation-with-David-Chappell...

Interesting insights on IT Spending in 2009 by KnowledgeForward….. We are currently doing research into how IT organizations are approaching communication, collaboration, and content management needs in a recessionary environment.  Since many of...

Microsoft System Center products and solutions help capture and aggregate knowledge of IT infrastructure, policies and best practices to help IT organizations build manageable systems and automate operations to reduce costs, improve application availability...

It is common to hear of massive IT failures; projects that are over budget, late, poorly aligned to business needs, or all of the above. Often, the resulting losses are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The cause is almost always the same: uncontrolled...

For folks developing on Silverlight, you can refer to this site for Silverlight Kits Whitepaper . Go to this site for Silverlight Kit Webinars , details below. The MySpace Silverlight Kit View Recording CodePlex project The New York Times Silverlight...

Brian Keller and Charles Sterling produced an excellent episode of the 10-4 show that goes through in detail how to setup a complete Beta 1 environment including a base virtual machine, SQL Server 2008, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System...

Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7. This content is based on Windows 7 RC and provides an early peak to our final training...

In this interview Craig Morris, senior solution architect and mobile application specialist at Avanade , discusses with Zhiming Xue his thoughts on mobile application development and deployment. Speaking from his many years of experience, he discusses...

Microsoft Singapore just launched the Internet Explorer 8 Online Challenge . Take this opportunity to learn about the cool new features in Internet Explorer 8 by playing the Internet Explorer 8 Online Challenge and stand a chance to win a MSI Wind U123...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are the next generation of Microsoft development tools. They work together to accelerate the process of turning vision into reality for the developer. Visual Studio 2010 Professional has been engineered...

Microsoft has announced the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more...

For organizations and developers who are interested in Emulator Images, Gesture APIs, and Samples for Windows Mobile 6.5. You can download the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Took Kit . This also goes hand in hand with “ramp up” as it now includes self paced...

Microsoft had announced the new Search service, Bing ! Set your search defaults to Bing today! If you run IE8, c lick here to set and select ‘Add to Internet Explorer’. You can install the toolbar too.

The Azure Services Platform developer contest, new CloudApp() , is now open to international participants. new CloudApp() is a developer challenge ( Contest Site ) that promotes the new opportunities and innovative ideas developers are creating with cloud...

In this interview, Greg Galipeau , Project Manager and senior consultant of RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue about customizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based solutions. With demos Greg walks through each of the three customization options...

This paper introduces the reader to the Online Services Security and Compliance team, a part of the Global Foundation Services division who manages security for the Microsoft cloud infrastructure. Readers will gain an understanding of what cloud computing...

Apart from being able to subscribe to the monthly architecture newsletter where you’ll receive an email on the update monthly (refer to Subscription to Microsoft Singapore Architecture Newsletter Online ), you can now download a softcopy of the monthly...