In this release both the Windows Azure Tools & the SDK was updated Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Azure SDK What's hot in the new refresh? The problem with VS hanging when you hit F5, this is a huge fix. Fix regarding the limitation of using special characters in entities...

In case you missed it, you can see a clip of Ray Ozzie giving an overview of Azure. If you want more recorded sessions you can see all the keynote videos here : http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/pdc/default.mspx Technorati Tags: Azure , Cloud Computing , S+S , SaaS Share this post :

Hot off the press the new Architecture Journal 17 . The theme of this journal issue is Distributed Computing. You may be asking yourself, well isn't that already well established? Yes and no... The traditional way of thinking about distributed computing is, however with the emergence of new architectural...

This is going to be a relatively short post. Mostly just link love to Computer World. It's a high level article but defiantly worth the read if you are interested in Microsoft's cloud direction. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115978   Other...

As for the second day of coverage of the EA summit I attended less sessions and did more talking with other architects at the conference so I will not have a whole lot to say about most of the sessions. I did observe that there was quite the drop-off between day 1 and day 2 for some reason. I am not...

Infoworld just published a great piece called Cloud computing may draw government action . The article goes into data privacy concerns with the cloud. They state that Cloud computing will soon become an area of hot debate in Washington, D.C., with policy makers debating issues such as the privacy and...

In April Live Mesh was announced at the Web 2.0 conference and opened it up for people to try out our platform experience -- the first evidence of what scenarios our platform is capable of enabling.   Today the Mesh Team are increasing the number of available slots in the Live Mesh Technology Preview...

In a recent article on Network World they highlight security issues with the cloud. Jon Brodkin extracts his thoughts from a Gartner report titled “ Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing .” If you had seen my last post on Challenges moving to the Cloud you can see many synergies...