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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6967ff37-813e-47c7-b987-889124b43abd&displaylang=en Overview Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to enable the creation, configuration...

Enterprise Architecture has a role to play in both developing a vision of the future, and in providing governance and oversight to make sure that the organization can measure its progress towards that future. The governance part is tricky.  Architectural...

The public beta of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will be available in November. For more resources, take a look at: - SharePoint 2010 Website - to view SharePoint 2010 in action - SharePoint 2010 forum - for SharePoint 2010 questions - SharePoint 2010...

Each month through June 2010, Microsoft will bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Title:  An...

What is an application platform? It’s a broad concept that can include a range of interconnected technologies. ASP.NET is a platform for creating Web applications, for example, while at the same time it belongs to the larger application platform provided...

A good reading to share…. ***************************************************************************************** “Business Architects design, obtain approval, translate and administer the implementation and ongoing improvement of the transformational...

Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, Infrastructure Architects, and Business Analysts all work hand-in-hand to deliver value to the enterprise. In this interview, Joe Shirey talks to Matt Hessinger about the dynamics of each of these groups and...

The Architect Innovation Cafe presents Jim Wilt on Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success - Products, Solution Frameworks, and Development Tools are too often touted by vendors and development teams as solutions to customer business...

Mario Cardinal and Aaron Kowall discuss how to easily test in an autonomous way an application conceived with modular abstractions such as the "layer". Mario and Aaron discuss how to partition the concerns of the application into layers and...

Each month through June 2010, Microsoft will bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. October 27, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Title:  An...

Achim Ruopp , an internationalization specialist and a former program manager at Microsoft, discusses the typical process of and efforts involved in internationalizing existing applications in this interview with Zhiming Xue . If you are interested to...

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

Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? And more importantly...