Next week on Redmond Campus we are running a Windows Azure event hosted by Microsoft technical leaders Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich. This will provide a great recap of where we are on the Windows Azure Platform and you can either...

Nathan on the team has just updated the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games to version 1.1. This version is a significant step forward and enables developers to more easily and quickly build out their social games on the Windows Azure Platform. The...

Today we released a simplified version of the Windows Azure SDK, with a number of new features, a HPC Scheduler SDK  and finally a Windows Azure Platform Training Kit which aligns with the new changes. The major updates are as follows Streamlined...

We have just published a point release of the “Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco” which is designed to enable Umbraco applications to be easily deployed into the Windows Azure. The accelerator has been designed to enable you to rapidly deploy Umbraco...

  On Monday, Quentin Clark ( GM of SQL Engineering) presented a foundational session at TechED which focused on the Microsoft Data Platform with SQL Server “Denali” and took a look into some of our latest data tools with “Juneau”. Juneau is pretty...

Yesterday during the TechED 2011 North America Keynote, Cameron Skinner showed off a number of the new features which are coming in the next release of Visual Studio. In particular he drilled down into a number of new ALM capabilities and code editing...

  If you every wanted to build iPhone applications which connected to the cloud to access storage services, your wish has been granted. On Monday we released the “Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS” which is a toolkit for developers to make it easy to...

    http://bit.ly/Office365-JUMP On May 24-26  we are hosting a free 3-day Jump Start training designed for IT Pros interested in learning more about preparing for and deploying Office 365. This is the first public training for IT Pros...

Recently Symon Perriman and Corey Hynes presented two days of live sessions focused at helping VMWARE ITPRO’s to understand and implement Microsoft’s Virtualization technology. This content has now been placed on TechNet EDGE in HD format for everybody...

    We are excited to announce that two of our senior leaders, Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools Marketing, Robert Wahbe and Corporate Vice President, Visual Studio, Jason Zander , will come together to showcase a broad array of technology...

We have just published the foundational sessions for TechED 2011. These are demo heavy sessions which are delivered by key leaders in the company which directly follow the keynote and allow the audience to drill into a specific area and get a better cross...

There was an interesting article this morning in InfoWorld , discussing whether moving from on premises Exchange, Sharepoint, Communications and Office to the cloud with Office 365 will put the IT Admin out of a job? The common belief has been that this...

  Brad Anderson delivered another great keynote session on day 2 of the Microsoft Management Summit this week. You can see the recording on TechNet EDGE The second day was all about the Consumerization of IT and showed some great demos for managing...

We have just completed another release of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit.   The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes hands-on labs, presentations, and samples to help developers understand how to build applications that utilize...

Just watched a great screencast on EDGE where Keith Combs interviews T.J. Campana and Richard Boscovich who talked about the legal process and technical involvement in the takedown of the Waledac botnet. You can see the screencast here ( http://technet...

  Today we have released the January 2010 update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (off line) & Training Course (on-line). The Kit & Course includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations...

MIX11 is open for registration!! If you are focused on Client, Web or Phone design or development and what to get access to all the latest experts from Microsoft this is a great event to attend. The added bonus is that this is hosted at the Mandalay Bay...

Tomorrow we are launching WebMatrix at the CodeMash Conference. WebMatrix is a free offering that provides everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular ASP...

Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. This first bulletin is rated Important, while the second is rated Critical. You can find more information...

Achim provided an update on Windows Phone 7 after its first full 6 weeks since launch. He discussed the developer momentum in the marketplace with over 18,000 developers registered and over 4,000 applications published. He also talked about initial phone...

Check our this very funny video on Web Socket support. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7991991/ P.S. there is swearing if your are easily offended.

There are a number of questions coming from enterprise customers wanting to support Windows Phone 7, and are particularly interested in the security features to be able to wipe a device if is gets lost or stolen. Here is a great screencast on http...

Today we announced that as a developer on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace you can get details about the number of people that have downloaded your applications. This information is available through the http://create.msdn.com app hub, where there is a...

With the launch of Windows Phone 7, the BING search engine team has provided a pictorial view of all the apps which are in the Marketplace. Now you can search/sort the 2,000 apps which are already in the marketplace on rate, highest rated, categories...

At the PDC we showed the momentum that we are creating around with Cloud with Windows Azure. We are looking for a passionate individual to join our team who can help evangelize the Azure Cloud platform by ensuring that we help key customers and partners...