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Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Platform

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:09 AM by dachou

It has been a couple of months since I wrote about cloud computing and Microsoft’s plans and strategies . Now that Azure Services Platform has been unveiled at PDC2008 , and after having the opportunities to discuss it with a community of architects from Read More...

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Filed under: SOA, Architecture, S+S, Platform, Microsoft, Cloud Computing

Architect Council - Mountain View 2008.11.18

Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:19 AM by dachou

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 Read More...

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Filed under: Architecture, Platform, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Events, Azure

PDC2008 - A Futures Look at the Microsoft Platform

Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 9:27 AM by dachou

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 Read More...

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Filed under: Platform, Microsoft, Events

Microsoft Implementing Software Plus Services

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:09 PM by dachou

Microsoft has been talking about "Software + Services" (S+S) as its vision of the future for a while now (see related posts on S+S: Microsoft Platform Overview & Talking about Software Plus Services ). People like Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie often talk Read More...

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Filed under: Strategy, S+S, Platform

Microsoft Platform Overview

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:57 PM by dachou

I also had the privilege of speaking at the South Bay .NET User Group , at their April monthly meeting, held at the Honda Motors U.S. headquarters campus in Torrance, CA. The topic of this presentation was an overview of the neat and new things on the Read More...

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Filed under: Strategy, S+S, Platform

2007.12.04 MSDN PowerSeries Event in Irvine, CA

Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:06 AM by dachou

I had the opportunity to present at the MSDN PowerSeries event in Irvine, on Software + Services, Windows Live Platform, and the Office Platform. It was a tough act to follow after Lynn Langit's morning session, but the audience was great and allowed Read More...

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Filed under: Architecture, Strategy, Web, S+S, Platform, Live Services, Events

Describing Web Platform Stack

Posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:30 AM by dachou

Context In an earlier blog post I talked about "Web as a Platform" (in Web 2.0's context) and briefly described a layered and componentized perspective in looking at the Web platform in general. And I thought it would be more clarifying to illustrate Read More...

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Filed under: Architecture, Strategy, Web, Platform

Popfly as a Web Platform

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 3:12 AM by dachou

Primer Microsoft Popfly ( www.popfly.com ), currently in beta since October 2007, is a web site and tool to help people create and share web sites, mashups, and other kinds of experiences. This service, in my opinion, is a really interesting and innovative Read More...

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Filed under: Architecture, Web, Platform

Web 2.0 - A Platform Perspective

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 8:39 PM by dachou

Background & Primer "Web as a Platform" has been a much discussed topic since Tim O'Reilly used it as a tagline in the first Web 2.0 conference back in October of 2004, then described in more detail in a 2005 article , and the subsequent Read More...

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