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One part of my team’s mission is to evangelise our Software + Services (S+S) strategy and our cloud offerings, with an emphasis on Windows Azure . As part of this I get to present many sessions that seek to explain our cloud strategy, It would be fair to say some of our customers and partners don’t have...

I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to present a session on cloud computing at the 2009 Government IT conference GOVIS – which was a lot of fun. You can view it on the GOVIS media site or Nigel’s cross-platform implementation is here (which is a story in itself!). Here’s the session outline: The introduction...

To me Live Mesh is one of those solutions that fulfills my personal killer app criteria: I didn't know I needed it before I had it It works beautifully and has changed the way I work/live Now I have it I can't do without it Moving my life to the cloud was never an option, I don't want to do email, calendaring...

Man - I'm starting to get excited. The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) starts on Monday in LA and Mike Zeff and I are attending to host NZ press and partners. The announcements that will be made next week have been guarded pretty closely, even internally, but over the last few weeks...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is coming soon. We pretty much only run PDC when we have some big things to talk about...real big things. People talk about the ".NET" PDC and the "Longhorn" PDC and this year will be no different. I think it will go down as the...

We're really fortunate to have Amit Mital , the General Manager for Live Mesh, as our keynote speaker for TechEd this year. While he will be presenting a view of our wider Software + Services strategy, mesh (which is really just an implementation of our S+S platform vision - almost a sample app!) will...

People ask me about our attitude to the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The answer is we have different take - software plus services. Microsoft hasn't join the rush to a 100% SaaS model, instead we've talked about S+S - a combination of SaaS and on-premise software, the best solution for a particular...

I've just returned from a week in the US attending our annual global Microsoft briefing. It's always a great event but this year was extra special. This is of course the first year the BillG has not been directly involved. While a little sad, what this means is that the new thought leaders within Microsoft...