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Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Mountain View campus on Tuesday, November 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...

I had the privilege of publishing another article, " Using Events in Highly Distributed Architectures ", in the Architecture Journal , issue 17 , after the previous one on Strong User Authentication on the Web in issue 16. I discussed Event...

Here are some evidence that geeks can party too (well, me not really, but definitely many of my esteemed teammates)! The Underground @ PDC was an event hosted by Microsoft at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 . Check out the pictures on Flickr...

Here are the slides for my talk at the TechDays08 event in Costa Mesa on Thursday, November 13, 2008. I'd like to thank everyone who made the time to attend. Personally I really enjoyed the interactive questions and was glad to share this information...

Cloud computing is a disruptive force that has the potential to change everything, but how do we take advantage of it? At Microsoft, cloud computing is a major component of our technology strategy and platform, and a rich and massively scalable cloud...

If technology is the backbone of your business, you won’t want to miss out on the TechDays ’08 event in Costa Mesa, CA. Filled with exclusive product information presented by insider experts, TechDays ’08 will show developers, IT professionals...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) synchronizes business goals and IT investment priorities, provides valuable insight into the software development lifecycle at each stage of the process, and can enable organizations to get the most value out of...

So the much anticipated Microsoft consumer advertising campaign finally kicked off. We first saw the "Shoe Circus" TV spot, and just now the second episode, "New Family", was released. The series can be found on Microsoft's website...

When we look at authentication and authorization aspects of cloud computing, most discussions today point towards various forms of identity federation and claims-based authentication to facilitate transactions between service end points as well as intermediaries...

08.08.08 - after 7 years of preparation and anticipation, the XXIX Olympiad has finally opened in Beijing. What an amazing opening ceremony . And such breathtaking architectures of the "Birds Nest" National Stadium and "Water Cube"...

Here's a popular topic. ;) A quick search in the blogsphere finds countless number of posts and comments proclaiming the inevitable (or already happening) decline of Microsoft as we near the age of cloud computing. A small sampling of some well-known...

As the Web evolved, there has been countless proclamations that client-side software is dead or on its way out. Certainly, the staggering pace of innovation in Web application platforms and Web-oriented architectures, and associated mindshare shift towards...

Cloud computing, the buzzword du jour and hottest cliche in IT at the moment, is a source for extensive debates as well as general confusion. Just like the other buzzwords, SOA, Web 2.0, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), "cloud computing" is a very...

Agile methods are a set of development processes intended to create software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way. Many development teams have adopted "agile" methodologies to manage change and to improve software quality. These methodologies...

Last week InXile Entertainment launched a new version of the Line Rider game, built using Silverlight 2, and integrated Windows Live services (ID and Messenger). This is one of the projects me and my Microsoft team were directly involved with, by partnering...

Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (October 27-30, 2008) is coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center again! 2005 was the last time PDC was held, also in LA. That event unveiled the pieces that make up of what we know today as .NET Framework...

In collaboration with SQL Server, IIS, and Hewlett Packard, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced a set of tools that customers can use to defend against SQL injection attacks on their ASP websites and identify and mitigate root ASP...

Well that's an obvious question. And you'd be surprised if you were expecting Microsoft to say no to it. :) Fact is, Microsoft has learned / adapted to embrace and support open source communities and models. I had the opportunity to speak at the UCLA...

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released last week. This is the major milestone that supports a commercial go-live license, which means the platform is considered stable and robust enough to support mission critical applications. Read Scott Guthrie and my teammate...

By today's standards, it is pretty well-understood that governance is a critical success factor for enterprise SOA initiatives. And there is already a considerably saturated/consolidated market providing the SOA governance solutions (see Gartner's Magic...

Another one of those free events hosted by our teams and partner in southern California. May 5, 2008 | Los Angeles, CA http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032374276&Culture=en-US Event ID: 1032374276 June 10, 2008 | Irvine...

March 5 - 7, 2008 The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino Las Vegas, Nevada Now in its third year, MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web...

You are one of the unsung heroes of technology. The work you do every day helps your company to be more competitive, and now Microsoft launches three powerful new products to make it even easier for you to be a hero every day. Three ways to be a hero...

ODC 2008 is the premier event for Microsoft Office developers, bringing together architects, developers, industry technical experts, Microsoft insiders, and key partners in a public forum to redefine what it means to be focused on 2007 Microsoft®...