Ardentia Search was an early adopter of Windows Presentation Foundation and enrolled in the UK ISV Early Adopter Program (aka Touchdown). We had the good fortune to work with Ardentia Search throughout the development and migration from Java to .NET 3...

We've been pushing for this internally and are all very pleased with the announcement to include Expression Blend & Web in MSDN Premium. There is a downside to this in that many (most) developers should not have access to Blend - it's way too dangerous...

There is a lot of interest from partners around Open XML, the new file format for Office System 2007, especially those partners that have ever tried to programmatically create or manipulate files - it was hard! its now a lot easier, and to help partners...

I admit, the "I'm a PC. I'm a Mac" skit with the Windows Vista security dialog box warnings was pretty funny (well done) and I laughed quite a bit - despite the fact that asking users if they want to run potentially dangerous software is generally a good...

Everyone on our team is thinking about SaaS and what it means to our partners. This is a particular area of interest for Eric , who has the architectural background and painful memories learning from the ASP-days to make sense of it all and ensure we...

The Microsoft Developer and Platform Group will be hosting two half day technical sessions aimed at Microsoft partners, especially ISVs, focusing on Microsoft Office Open XML, the new document format for Microsoft Office 2007. Theses sessions will cover...

That's right - SaaS (Software as a Service) is not a software revolution. Someone from a large Internet company recently referred to Microsoft's software as "old school" because it runs on the desktop. Heck, even some of our own executives have implied...

If you are developing with Windows Presentation Foundation, check out our new series of screencasts and videos on Channel9, known as Real World WPF. The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months...

About 3 months ago our team made a great acquisition - Andrew Shorten. Andrew has been helping developers, partners and customers leverage the Internet as an application platform over the last 8 years; from designing & building web-based solutions...

We were waiting for the announcement to go live as the folks at CrunchGear just mentioned it. You can now download Virtual PC 2007 at no cost . Technorati tags: Virtual PC

James has just announced a Web 2.0 mashup competition. If you're a developer looking to experiment with Web 2.0 and various complementary services - BT has built a sandboxed environment for you to give it a go, with a $25k price to boot. www.networkmashups...

A good article on the importance of Vista for developers. I particularly like this article because you hear from customers and partners directly on what Windows Vista means to them and their business. A few good quotes: "Perhaps even more profound, if...

Software partners that view Innovation as a key ingredient to success should stop by on January 18th. We're holding our first software partners Innovation day in 2007 and will run through both commercial and technical aspects of innovation - and how Microsoft...

You're a developer, architect, maybe even CTO at a software company. You're constantly challenged to decide should we innovate, increase support in existing products, change our roadmap, start from scratch... You've got a lot on your mind, it's not easy...

Technically speaking, it's the introduction of new things or methods . Innovation is a topic I've debated with many people, including professors at Instituto de Empresa ( translated ), colleagues , and in my own head . It's a tough one, who innovates...