As Business Development Managers at Microsoft, we like to crow about the exciting work we do with our ISV partners, and how it impacts their business. But what about the work that our partners do and how that impacts life on the streets? How does this...

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Differentiating your line-of-business applications from those of your competitors has never been more important for software companies. If you’ve considered using Dynamics CRM as a line-of-business platform, Silverlight or WPF to build compelling experiences...

More and more of Microsoft’s ISV partners are telling us that their customers across industries are striving to get value from their data. In financial services, they want to do things like optimize portfolios, identify potential business risks and opportunities...

By now everyone knows that Internet Explorer 8 has been made publicly available (check out the recent Channel 9 posting by IE GM Dean Hachamovich ). Why is this important for education? IE8 provides a completely new experience to end-users that make...

"We write software that lets engineers do their thing." That quote from the founder of software provider Intelligent Light pretty much sums up their business philosophy. This innovative ISV in New Jersey provides an application called FieldView that takes...

In my role as an evangelist for Microsoft, I get the unique opportunity to meet and work with some of brightest CTO's, CIO and software architects in the world. It occurred to me recently that we have reached the "tipping point" of Silverlight 3 - the...

Hungry for more info on how Windows 7 can help you? Microsoft Learning just launched its first Windows 7 Learning Snack called Introducing Windows 7 . A Snack is essentially a short, Silverlight presentation highlighting popular topics that includes various...

Did you know? You can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to manage the great new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta including: Live Migration Clustered Shared Volumes “hot add” storage to virtualized infrastructure ...

This is such an exciting time to serve the education market. The government recognizes the role that education plays in a recovering economy . What does that mean for technology companies that serve education? A big portion of the $787 Billion Economic...

When designing and developing frameworks, it can be challenging to create them in a fashion that enables them to evolve over time. Krzysztof Cwalina , a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, discusses strategies for designing reusable libraries...