A number of new storage features for blobs has been pushed to the cloud in the latest July SDK.  Probably the most exciting feature is the ‘ Shared Access Signature ’ (aka leased blobs).  This feature allows you to generate one-time, temporally...

  New Feature:  Multi-Role Support With the July SDK update, the concept of multiple roles has been added.  This is visualized in Visual Studio through Wizards or through configuration. You can use the multi-role support to break out logically...

This is a quick overview on TechNet EDGE of the security bulletins released by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in August 2009. This month, we released nine security bulletins. Five of those are rated Critical and four have an aggregate severity...

There was an interesting article last week where the Obama administration was considering NASA as a prototype for its outsource plans and support for the cloud. It is a good read, but in the end, it highlights the confusion in the industry around cloud...

Windows XP Mode is specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help ease the migration process to Windows 7 by providing additional compatibility for their older productivity applications. The newly updated Windows XP Mode now works with...

Last night we launched the PDC09 registration site, complete with some of the first sessions which will be presented . Here are some of the interesting one for me. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes - Mark Russinovich Petabytes...