A Day of Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform Friday March 4 th , 2011 8:00 am Welcome 8:30 - 5:00 pm Sessions Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market St Suite 700 San Francisco California 94103 Cores, cores, cores...

In London this morning Nokia and Microsoft announced plans for a broad strategic partnership, creating a new global mobile ecosystem. “I am excited about this partnership with Nokia”, said Steven Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO. “Ecosystems thrive when fueled...

If you thought the performance of the Windows Internet Explorer 9 Beta was impressive, take a look at what the team has been up to since that time. While I have been using several builds of Windows Internet Explorer 9 between the Beta and RC releases...

Windows Internet Explorer 9 RC, build 9.0.8080.16413, has been released to the Web and you can now download the Release Candidate build of the fastest browser on the Web! You can download the Windows Internet Explorer 9 RC from the Beauty of the Web site...

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 was Released to Manufacturing (RTM) today and will be available for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers on February 16th and on February 22nd via Windows Update. You can read more about the release on the...

Brandon Watson blogged ( link ) this week about the availability of the January Windows Phone Developer Tools update and I would encourage anyone developing for Windows Phone 7 to install the two updates here. Using this update you’ll have access to some...

Just saw a friend, Richard Seroter the “Architect Extraordinaire”, publish a new book from Packt – Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform; his second book after SOA Patterns with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...

Hanu Kommalapati, a very esteemed colleague and co-author on our book SOA with .NET and Windows Azure, provided some guidance on how to estimate and assess capacity requirements in Windows Azure.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...