Microsoft Security Essentials is officially released in 8 languages and 19 countries around the world.      You can download Microsoft Security Essentials now at http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ . About Microsoft...

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to start small and scale rapidly. Joe Shirey talks to...

You can now download or read online the latest Microsoft Architecture Journal 21 on Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow ! Happy reading!

An interesting article below…. happy reading! =============================================== An early 2009 Forrester interview with the CIO of a retail firm produced a great quote: “Our business execs have two views of IT: a big budget blob or their...

  Dryad is a high-performance general-purpose distributed computing engine that is designed to simplify the task of implementing distributed applications on clusters of Windows-based computers. DryadLINQ allows developers to implement Dryad applications...

Bob Familiar interviews Jeromy Carriere on the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method (LAAAM), a fast and efficient way to make good architectural decisions that are aligned with the needs of your business. Making good architectural decisions...

Microsoft has changed various aspects of what was called the Azure Services Platform. It's now known as the Windows Azure platform , and some pieces have been deleted, such as the Workflow part of .NET Services. For a current description, take a look...

Brian H. Prince caught up with Caleb Jenkins at the MVP summit. They commandeered a conference room, and talked about how all developers need to care about architecture. Developers should think of architecture at the code level and the benefits of Dependency...

Interesting read… enjoy! ******************************************** Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want. During a town hall meeting for State Department workers last month, an employee named Jim Finkle asked Hillary Clinton a very...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Developing SharePoint Applications Guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems | Customer Value | What’s in Developing SharePoint Applications...

No one will argue that the process of architecting software solutions that use available capabilities to address business needs within an organization's constraints is often a daunting task. Challenges like this can be much more approachable when you...

Microsoft has announced the download availability of Windows 7 Enterprise for trial inside your environment. The Windows 7 Enterprise trial is designed specifically for IT Professionals, so that you can test your software and hardware on a final version...

Ward Bell and John Stame discuss using Silverlight for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) for UFC. ARCast.TV - Ward Bell and John Stame on using Silverlight on the UFC Project