Vittorio in our team has been nominated for this years ID WORLD Community award as a recognized breakthrough visionary of digital identities. He works with major G100 enterprises worldwide, facilitating the early adoption of technologies such as Identity...

Here is the latest ARCAST from Ron Jacobs who speaks to John Shewchuck and David Wortendyke about a new technology which has been silently announced to the web called the Enterprise Internet Service Bus. This is a technology which is available in the...

With news headlines like " Apparent Ebay Hacker Posts Credit Card Numbers of Ebay Users " there is renewed interest from a large number of Internet web sites to take proactive steps to improve the security of their sites, rather than just keeping up with...

If anyone has any doubts about how important virtualisation is, then please take another look. Sure, there are still some performance issues for IO bound operations, but these will quickly disappear and the business opportunities, flexibility and cost...

Today at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Steve Ballmer will unveil the Popfly Beta . The big news is that we will have removed the invitation-only requirement: Popfly will be open to the world!!! So what else is new? Vista Sidebar and Live...

A few days ago, TechCrunch reported that MySpace is creating a developer platform. While this has not been validated, it is certainly a trend which has started to take momentum, with FaceBook and other social sites being the early movers. For FaceBook...

Who remembers that film? Total Recall , where Arnold had been brainwashed about his experiences mining on Mars and was sent back down to earth, given a new life ( and sexy wife ) and had a RFID chip emplaned in his brain to track his movements. Well it...

Vittorio on the team has been working with the CardSpace product group and the local Singapore office on an eID ( Electronic ID ) project with the Singapore health service. This solution offers citizens with a high level of security to a portal using...

Woke up to a funny email this morning. David Tesar in my team has been working on a Silverlight deployment guide for IT Professionals . This gives good guidance on deploying Silverlight in the enterprise, and give lots of information about security settings...

Yesterday I talk about the announcement that the .NET Framework Library source code was going to be made available for browsing and debugging with the release of Visual Studio 2008. Due to the crazy timescale's we were running under, we were not able...

Busy times, as we head to the Windows Server / Visual Studio launch - who knows what else we are going to announce... (smile) What is today's story? Well we are announcing that later this year, with the RTM of Visual Studio 2008, we will make available...

Around a week ago we shipped RC0 of Windows Server 2008. With this came the first public build which contained the Windows Server Virtualization bits ( aka Viridian ). It has took the community a little while to digest and review the bits, but the feedback...