http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032327012&culture=en-US "Let’s Make Business Happen" will be the theme of our Financial Services ISV Partner Summit. Our goal is to talk about future technology, Microsoft account team integration...

If you are an architect and if you want to work here at Microsoft my team the Architecture Strategy Team is Hiring. We need someone that can drive thought leadership for Office Business Applications for the architect and developer community? Do you have...

Wachovia and HSBC both have plans to build and deploy Mobile Banking Applications. HSBC's MONILINK was launched on October 4th 2006. If you’ve got a bank account with HSBC or First Direct, you can download the Monilink application to your handset, and...

With the new Mobile OS release I've been talking a lot about mobile technologies recently. I thought I would provide some banking specific mobile applications. Commercial Applications Pyxis Mobile - Powerful Asset Management Software for the Capital Markets...

So I have been using WM 6 for about two weeks now. I have to say that I LOVE it! I have both good and some areas in which we could improve on. I have read some articles stating that WM 6 is nothing more than a point release. Even though there is no earth...

Yes, that is a mound of snow taller than me! I was a brave soul this past weekend traveling through the Mid-West Blizzard but I made it back home to rainy Seattle! I had traveled from Northern Ohio through the all the Northern States (IN, IL, WI, MI,...

This is a client applicaiton and not a web application which makes it much more user friendly. Check it out here! http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=23062bfb-e648-49fd-b17e-d285e1d67460 For the browser based version there is a good...

Only 69 days left till Mix 2007. There are some really cool things happening this year. Check it out! Windows Vista Ultimate for all MIX07 Attendees You heard it here first: all MIX07 attendees will receive a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate, the one...

Bank of America Corp.'s online customers will soon be able to use their cell phones and smart phones to check account balances, pay bills and transfer funds. The bank is launching secure mobile banking for its 21 million online banking customers in Tennessee...

Discover Financial Services , the fourth-largest credit-card organization in the United States, has launched a technology trial to test a new mobile banking and RFID -enabled payment platform in collaboration with handset maker Motorola . Discover announced...

Pashamn has started to compile a list of limitations in the InfoPath Web Forms deployment. Here is a snippit of what he has discovered:  No native write to SQL databases.   The ease of use of establing an ADO connection to SQL or Access, and being able...

Great article on helloitsliam's blog http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/02/14/19458.aspx

Are you wondering if you are following best practices when developing your MOSS based applications? The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically...

myFeedz is an interesting Web 2.0 feed reader that personalizes content that is relavent to your interests. Adobe Labs says it uses an innovative way to show you  personalized news based on your reading habits. It learns from what you like and helps you...

Today I am getting my phone upgraded from Windows Mobile 5 to Mobile 6. I am pretty excited about it. There are a ton of subtle new features that improve on the user experience of the device. I will let you know how it goes! Here are some useful links...

As you seen from earlier posts regarding ACORD they are going through the process of redefining their XML standard. This will be both an iterative and length process. I believe that it is essential they do this. In order to determine what are the right...

Some folks on my team were talking about Media Center and I had to chime in. I love my digital media and my Media Center PC. I will be upgrading to Vista Ultimate as soon as all the drivers are out for my equipment. The goal of my media center setup was...

I wanted to post an entry on this SaaS sample application that was just released today. This is a huge milestone for Ginapaolo. Ginapaolo is one of my teammates here on the Architecture Strategy Team in Redmond, please take a look at his blog to get all...

Happy to report I threw out the default CS theme and created my own!

I get the ESB question a lot here lately when I talk to financial services organizations. Traditionally we have felt that ESB's are not products they are how you compose a set of technologies to create a message bus that spans across multiple disparate...

In the keynote today at the RSA Conference 2007, the technology-security industry’s annual conference, Bill Gates and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie discussed the state of security, the threat landscape and the vision for a world of...

During the last decade, digital technology has changed the world in profound and exciting ways. Today we communicate instantly with the people we care about without worrying about traditional limitations of time and location. At work, we collaborate with...

Recently a colleage asked me if Microsoft had any reusable patterns or factories for the financial services industry. Instead of just replying to him I thought I would share this with the rest of you as well. As most of you know, Microsoft has been...