Interesting post by Scott Bellware on Toyota's Chief Engineer and the impact of the role on Toyota's planning and production.  With the recent talk of the new administration in the US appointing a CIO for the first time; it got me thinking about...

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's San Francisco campus on Thursday, December 18, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as...

My favorite, and the most popular music streaming service on the web, Pandora , has finally arrived on Windows Mobile! Read the full article on John Stame’s blog at http://jcstame.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/pandora-arrives-on-windows-mobile/

Back in July’08 I had written a post about Deep Zoom as part of the Silverlight 2 cool features that originated from SeaDragon which is a Live labs project which provide users a new way for people to interact with content.  It allows users to explore...

SlideShare , the most popular social site for presentations on the web, released a SlideShare Ribbon Add-in for PowerPoint , the most popular desktop presentation software in world. The SlideShare Ribbon Add-in for PowerPoint enables the sharing and social...

Here are the slides we presented at the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Bellevue campus on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well...

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Irvine campus on Thursday, December 11, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas...

Earlier this week, John Stame gave a talk at a Microsoft ProDev Partners Briefing at our Mountain View Campus. Read the full article on John Stame’s blog at http://jcstame.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/my-azure-services-talk-at-prodev-partner-briefing/

Yahoo! recently built and deployed to the IE 8 Gallery two very useful Accelerators!  Now with the Yahoo! Map accelerator you can at any web page while browsing plot an address or location using interactive Yahoo Maps and with Yahoo! Search accelerator...

I have blogged about BizSpark in the past but now my associate Anand Iyer has posted and good blog post on how to join BizSpark in his post How do I join BizSpark? and he is even doing a web cast about what BizSpark is and why startups would want to participate...

Sam Chenaur has been collaborating with a great customer in Bellevue, WA by the name of InfoSpace .  Many of you might already be familiar with them.  Recently, InfoSpace has gone through some changes - they have restructured and in many ways...

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Phoenix campus on Tuesday, December 9, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas...

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Los Angeles campus on Thursday, December 4, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas...

The growing maturity of SOA has increased the need for enterprises to extend value chains beyond their own four walls, by facilitating dynamic business processes that span multiple organizations. At the same time, the advent of cloud computing is ushering...

It’s time for another Architect Council. Please feel free to pass this along to other colleagues who might be interesting in attending. This discussion will primarily stay at the architecture level but some code-based demos will be shown. Architect...

On Friday, December 12, Microsoft is hosting a Windows Client FireStarter event at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond. If you are a Developer or an IT Pro, you do not want to miss it. As another event in our ever-growing-in-popularity FireStarter...