Hey folks, For those of you not at PDC that want to keep up-to-date with the exciting announcements there, we’re covering PDC live until its conclusion. To watch, go to www.microsoftpdc.com There is an all-star lineup of guests including Mark Russinovich, Patrick Dussud, Steve Marx, Bob Muglia...

As “Generation Y” comes to the workforce, they have higher expectations, as a consumer ( What do others say about the generation shifts ) and as a user, when evaluating user experience. The software industry, from consumer to line of business applications, is responding to this change by launching a...

Save the Date: Thursday, June 18 at 11:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard Windows 7, is approaching fast and from the application standpoint is very similar to Windows Vista. We’re going to examine Windows 7 application compatibility not only from the perspective of moving...

Last week, Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, and Steven Martin, Microsoft Senior Director of Developer Platform Product Management, took the stage at JavaOne to give the first ever Microsoft keynote at this event. It was an historic event...

If you missed last week’s valuable presentation about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence , you can view this on demand by visiting the ISV website on Microsoft.com and visiting the Technical Resources page. There have also been many other presentations that you can view on demand on the...

Are you interested in getting your Silverlight application on MySpace? How about using the New York Times APIs in your Silverlight application? Or perhaps you have deployed web service APIs and want to get more developers using them (with cooler Silverlight applications). Michael Scherotter, a Media...

The Web 2.0 phase of the internet today characterizes a fundamental transition of the web from an ecosystem of system generated online content, to an ecosystem of vibrant services that thrive on pervasive and social user engagement. This shift has disruptive implications that extend beyond the social...

Mark your calendars for this session with Roger Doherty, Senior Technical Evangelist, Developer and Platform Evangelism. He will provide a high level overview of high level technical overview of the SQL Server 2008 BI platform. This month’s Global ISV Technical Forum Webcast will take place Wednesday...

In follow up to our February blog post about partners using Surface , there was an exciting announcement, Sunday at Tech Ed , that the Microsoft Surface team released Service Pack 1. The Surface team has been working with their community and receiving feedback from more than 180 partners in 11 countries...

If Virtualization is important to your company, subscribe to this blog: It is read by “virtualizors” from around the world and described as: “Information and announcements from Program Managers, Product Managers, Developers and Testers from the Windows Virtualization Team”. What great content of which...

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 with Bob Familiar . ARCastTV-Krzysztof-Cwalina...

This week, Channel 9 published a demo featuring Microsoft Surface. Check out what Surface can do. This is a great demo to watch. Captured in the Reston, Virginia Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) where Northrup Grumman teamed with Microsoft, you’ll see they’ve built a compelling Proof of Concept (POC...

For those who missed last week’s conference in Las Vegas, you can check out the MIX09 Keynotes here . Also, here is an update on a few topics that were covered: Microsoft announced the Silverlight 3 Beta, new features in Expression Blend and continued progress in the cloud with updates to the Azure...

Wednesday, March 25 th , 2009, 10:00-11:30 AM Pacific Mark your calendars for this session with Jaime Rodriguez, Microsoft Presentation Foundation Technical Evangelist. He will provide a high level overview of the Microsoft Client Continuum: how we see each technology fitting and how we see the...

You’ve probably heard the buzz from Microsoft about Software Plus Services and Azure. To me, that means delivering the right software to a customer, at the right time, on the end point of the customer’s choosing. With this model, the possibilities of delivering great experiences to customers are many...

We just discovered this great resource for “How Do I” videos on Microsoft latest technology developments. The first 9 of 40 planned videos about Azure are now published here . These are the first comprehensive set of HDI’s on the entire Azure Services Platform which will allow you to see the Azure...

Please join us for this month’s Global ISV Technical Forum Webcast Wednesday, December 17 th , 2008 , 10:00-11:30 AM PST The Azure Services Platform The Azure™ Services Platform offers ISVs the ability to provide their customers a range of choices in user experience over the Web or on connected...

Whether or not you are in the manufacturing industry, the recent Rockwell Automation interview on Microsoft's Channel 9 is an informative show to watch. Rockwell builds automation control and information solutions for manufacturing customers large and small, across most major consumer industries. Hardware...