Congratulations to the MedCalc developers team ! Digimizer 3 from MedCalc has successfully completed certification testing at VeriTest for the Microsoft “Certified for Windows Vista” logo program.This is the second application they submitted which got...

February 28 th marked 90 days that Windows Vista had been available to business customers. Has it been a good or a bad 90 days for security vulnerabilities? Click here to read all the details and download the full report . CSO Online blog link: http:...

Just as a reminder I wanted to inform you that for going through the Vista Logo Certification process we can offer you special assistance from Keystone Strategy. They will guide you through it, be the intermediary with the cerification company , etc....

If you missed Scott Guthrie's presentation on Orcas in Brussels, here is the recorded version. Scott is the General Manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft. Video PodCast Short recap of Orcas : - Target .NET 2.0,3.0 or 3.5 - Major HTML/CSS Designer...

If you develop software that needs to exchange data with other applications you are probably going to use XML . But then what specs and schema should your documents be based on to make it as "open" and as rich as possible ? Check out Open XML. There is...

The concept of using Mashups to create new applications, combining or composing a UI with elements calling different services or business functionality through orchestration of different back-end services is not new but we still had to prove that this...

Last week we did a re-run of the Vista Certification Workshop where we had 25 attendees from ISV land here in Belgium. Again I got some interesting questions : Q As the Microsoft Authenticode Code Signing certificates are used from Verisign for...

I'm trying to touch on a few topics that are in ther for ISVs . If you think about moving to SaaS , then there is definitly something in here for you to learn . ASP.NET 2.0 , AJAX and Microsoft Virtualization , Longhorn Server and IIS 7 are some of the...

If you as an ISV look for real examples of where SaaS starts making in roads , read this . Even tough its based on a competitive platform, the story applies to you the Microsoft ISVs out there . If you are still based on an "older" 2 tier architecture...