Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft

Microsoft, TCG and Juniper today agreed to work together to ensure customers have interoperable Network Access Control protection for securing network machines. This is another major step forward for security, ensuring that enterprise machines, many of...

The debate rolls on. I guess this must be the 11th year since Microsoft shipped its first IIS web platform. I remember installing the first beta version on NT Server 3.5.1 and thinking that this is pretty basic. Things have moved on, on both sides and...

Its always sad when you have to reduce scope for a product release. Today we revieled that quite a few of the features in the "Viridian" Hypervisor product will not make the initial version. Features such as live migration, hot-add resources such as storage...

What is the right branching strategy for a particular software project? When should I use a label versus a branch? How do you structure your solutions and projects? Brian Keller in the team has been involved in a x-company project to pull together some...

Well, with the annoucement this week of Windows Server 2008 as the official name for Windows Server CodeName "Longhorn" ( thank goodness I do not have to call it that again...way too long ) it got me thinking of all the other name posibilities that missed...

Vittorio in the team has just completed a tutorial on his blog which walks through 5 very simple steps to create a service in Visual Studio Orcas and then secure it with the CardSpace technology. He then extracts specific claims which could then be used...

Well the word is out about Microsoft "Popfly". Pretty cool stuff for people wanting to build simple applications to connect with their friends, communities or just for fun using simple mashup constructs which are brought together with JavaScript/Ajax...

I have been getting the question pretty often since we released Beta 3 of Longhorn Server, "I would like to deploy IIS7 in a live environment". When can I do it? The answer in pretty simple. Go to www.iis.net/goLive , fill in a simple form and you can...

For someone who has had to sign onto 3 community sites today, each without any SSL support, each with a different credential and password format, this kind of guidance has not come soon enough in my opinion. This document describes patterns for implementing...

Last week Microsoft announced a bunch of things to improved interoperability around online identity management. This builds on the standards work on over the last three years to allow developers to create solutions to a common identity framework called...