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 register to visit physically, on register to watch...

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 other big change he made in this release was to separate...

  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 access Windows Azure storage services from native...

  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 different non-Microsoft wireless devices using...

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 in Las Vegas, which is also a fantastic place to...

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 sales and perceptions about the new phone. See...

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://edge.technet.com from the UK team which walks you...

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 new "reports" tab. We also announced that we are...

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 to find the app you want to install. Just go...

Today we provided details about the roll out of the Marketplace for Windows Phone 7. If you have already registered for the marketplace, you should have received an email today asking you whether your application is ready to publish. If this is the case, you can respond to the email, to get the opportunity...

Paul in the team has created a great blog posted which shows you how you can build sharepoint applications which support Windows Phone 7. You can see the article here. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pstubbs/archive/2010/10/04/developing-windows-phone-7-applications-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx

  Jaime just published the video for a day and a half day event which we held in Redmond earlier this month about Windows Phone 7 design philosophy. All the details can be found here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2010/08/13/windows-phone-design-day-recordings.aspx ) Here are the high...

  At TechED MEA this week Eric Rudder showed off a very cool gaming demo which ran on the Windows Phone, PC and XBOX. http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/06/microsoft-shows-off-single-game-running-on-windows-windows-phon/ Register for MIX to see how easy it is to do this.