Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft

Ryan on the team demo'd some of the key new features of IIS7 at a reviewers event here at Redmond. They were really well received, so we asked him to capture them into a screen cast so that everyone can see them. We placed them on the Edge site ( http...

In September, we recorded the key sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio Rhythm team and Program Managers from the product group. We have...

One of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit is now online and available as an MSDN Virtual Lab. The “Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008” lab is available on MSDN Virtual Labs here . Developers can now get started with...

After the release of Visual Studio to RTM, the tools and framework evangelism team are pleased to announce that the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit on MSDN. This has been created for the RTM code-base and is released on the Microsoft.com Download Center...

Giovanni in the team has created a screen cast for the first beta of Windows Server HPC 2008 (V2 of the product ) which walks you through the new capabilities including setup and deployment, monitoring, reporting and resource management. Giovanni also...

So at Super Computing 2007 we announced a new name called Windows HPC Server 2008 ( instead of Windows Compute Cluster Server -- it never really did zing - clusters what is that all about) and the fact that we are shipping the first beta of the V2 product...

Giovanni in the team has been working really closely with the University of Manchester on a High Performance computing project which used Windows Compute Cluster Server ( HPC ) together with Windows Workflow Foundation to study the effects of molecular...

Well I guess the story is out anyway, with Mary Jo Foley's post about the EDGE site over the weekend, but this afternoon in Barcelona we are officially announcing the site at the TechED ITFORUM keynote. I have to say that I am not that happy about us...

For a while now, multi-core and symmetric processing have become hot issues within the software industry and during a recent Microsoft platform strategy review with some of our closest partners, this was one of the most important subjects they came to...

So Google announced that they are going to offer a free phone operating system to the mobile suppliers and carriers. Does this mean that Google is really into the App Platform or operating system market or does it mean something else? Not so sure.......

After two years of announcing our intent to build a medium business solution, the Windows Server Solutions Team today announced the new integrated server solution designed for midsize businesses – "Windows Essential Business Server" - previously known...

There has been a recent discussion about managing policy for a Windows Server Core instance that is in a workgroup configuration. This is a little more complex than normal, but here's what you'll need to do to enable Allow remote access to PnP interface...

For TechED Europe ( Developer ) this year in Barcelona, a number of my team are going to be there presenting an amazing 23 sessions on a number of sessions around the .NET Framework 3.5, IIS7, Biztalk Services and the Identity Meta System ( CardSpace...

Psssss. There are a whole number of these stickers around Building 18 which look like this? If I ask anyone, they will not say what it is all about. Its all huss, huss. All will be revealed on the 12th.

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 is going to be removed from the final version of Windows Server 2008 and will once again be an installable component from the web. This change has been made pretty late in the game, but this is no difference to the situation...

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...