Murray Gordon's Blog

Many of my customers and partners have raised questions around Windows Azure and the pilot program that Microsoft announced with Amazon Web Services. While Windows Azure is not participating in this pilot, Microsoft is actively monitoring the feedback...

I been getting a lot of questions lately about the testing story for Visual Studio 2010. Here’s a little summary and resources to get you started. Products that include Testing features Three products provide testing functionality in Visual Studio 2010...

Jared Bienz, an ISV Architect Evangelist on our team covering the South Central Region, came up with this fairly comprehensive list of great resources on Windows Azure and Live Framework. This content is great for business decision makers. Don’t miss...

Here’s some great info on SharePoint. John Weise, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, pointed me at this TechNet info and thought I’d pass it along.  If you have anyone doing SharePoint work there is some great stuff here on configuration, migration...

Phil Lieberman from Lieberman Software talked with us at PDC 2009 about their business, being a Microsoft partner and also the benefits of getting your product certified. Be sure to watch to the end to hear the great comment Phil makes about Windows XP...

Video Link - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/jodonnell/Talking-with-NewsGator-at-PDC-2009/ At PDC this year, our team spoke to Glenn Berry of NewsGator Technologies , an RSS platform company, about their work with Microsoft development technologies. This...

Video Link – Gabriel Torok from PreEmptive Solutions talks to me at PDC 2009 Check out this video I shot with with Gabriel Torok of PreEmptive Solutions about their solutions to help developers get better insight into their code. In addition Gabriel talked...

Microsoft Previews Tool to Ease Migration from MySQL to SQL Server Microsoft has released a new preview version of a tool that enables users of the MySQL database to migrate to Microsoft's SQL Server . On Jan. 11, Microsoft released a Community Technology...

Interesting take on the possible move by Oracle to gain a real stake in the virtualization space. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/oracle-citrix-acquisition-hits-the-rumor-mill/ Definitely worth a read. Thanks for checking...

Just read about this new “Fact or Fiction?” ad campaign for PHP developers that Wintellect completed for Microsoft . These pages are navigated to via banner ads from a media buy that will target PHP developers (see attached image examples).  The...

Normally I don’t spend a lot of time reading about the browser wars, but one of my colleagues, Bruce Kyle – prolific blogger on the Microsoft US ISV Team Blog , pointed me to this article called Microsoft IE's downfall 'far fetched,' says researcher Lock...

Here’s a great blog post from Sean Gerety on how to make a business case for attending conferences.  I’m guessing there are a lot of us who have had to go through this exercise with our companies. With the conference season about to heat up, this...

Jared Bienz just launched a great video on creating RIA prototypes with SketchFlow. If you are interested in SketchFlow and how to build real RIA apps using SketchFlow, this is worth a look. Here’s the URL - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/jbienz/Acorn...

Phizzpop 2010 contest site http://www.phizzpop.com/ launched today, and a MSFT Press Pass article also went out $50,000 PhizzPop Design Challenge: Agencies Called to Design New Web Site for Boys & Girls Clubs of America .  The more official launch...

Rob Bagby has started a new series (blog posts and screencasts) on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight .  The series illustrates various design patterns while building a sample application (see screenshot below).  The patterns covered...

Researchers continue to challenge Apple’s security by obscurity position and highlights that Windows Vista and Windows 7 are more secure than the recently released Mac OS X Snow Leopard . I always love perspectives like these from top researchers that...

With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks ( Win7 Boston , Win7 Reston , CRM Reston , CRM Boston , Win 7 Irvine , Mobility Mountain View ,), we are pleased to announce Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure at Atlanta, GA...

Windows 7 has broken the Amazon UK pre-order volume record, ousting Harry Potter. Just read this post from Vladislav Savov on engadget.com. Here’s what they said: “Take it from us, your London-based sleuths, when anything sells faster than Harry Potter...

The October Service Update for Microsoft Online Services includes several new features and enhancements designed to improve the service experience for both administrators and users. The Service Update is currently being deployed into production data centers...

Thanks John Wiese for pointing me to this blog. I thought it was hilarious. The pictures tells it all. The blog is supposedly excerpts from Steve Jobs secret diary. Classic… Sounds like there’s some real pain with the upgrade to Snow Leopard for a lot...

I thought this was hilarious, so I had to share… So the hacks are all up in arms about some blogger's claim that when you upgrade to Snow Leopard we downgrade your version of the Adobe Flash player. Now stories are popping up all over, like here on PC...

Jared Bienz ( blog & Ch9 ), one of Microsoft’s ISV Architect Evangelists based out of Houston, created this basic guide to help ISV’s get compatible with Windows 7. ISV Trend - So many ISV’s are worried that their customers will dump them for a competitor...

Today, October 8th, I read on Giles Turnball’s blog, Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg declared that Windows 7 to be a match for OSX and said it it is the best Windows Microsoft has ever produced. People listen to what Walt says, so this I thought this...

Here’s a great HOW TO video on Windows 7 Taskbar from Gunther Lenz, an ISV Architect Evangelist on my team. Title - Update: Windows 7 Taskbar in 5 Minutes URL - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Update-Windows-7-Taskbar-in-5-Minutes/ This is the first...

NEW MSDN and TechNet Firestarter session recordings are now available on demand! Download the Silverlight Firestarter technical sessions - With Scott Guthrie leading the roster of presenters, learn what's new and noteworthy in the latest releases of Silverlight...