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Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure

      Microsoft continues to enhance the interoperability of the Azure Service Platform with the announcement of the availability of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure . Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more! The goal of the SDK Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:22 AM by Eric G. Troup | 0 Comments

Microsoft a Service Provider FINALIST - TM Forum Best Practices Excellence Awards

Microsoft Online Services was selected as a Finalist by the TM Forum for this year’s Best Practices Excellence Awards 2009.  The awards were recognized at the TM Forum’s Management World event held in Nice, France from 6-9 May 2009.  Traditionally Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:15 PM by Eric G. Troup | 1 Comments

Nomination for TM Forum 2009 Service Provider Excellence Awards

A nomination for TM Forum 2009 Excellence Awards has been accepted under the Service provider category.  The winner of the award will be announced at Management World in Nice on May 6th. Microsoft used TM Forum standards such as the NGOSS reference Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:32 PM by Eric G. Troup | 1 Comments

Just Back from TM Forum's Management World Americas

Just came back from the TM Forum’s Management World Americas event in Orlando, Florida held 16-20 November 2008. The theme was Create, Deliver and Monetize Digital Services . For the past several years, we have talked about how Microsoft technology can Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:37 AM by Eric G. Troup | 1 Comments

Focusing on an S+S "Management Framework"

For those of us thinking about the practical aspects of implementing and managing Software + Services offerings, including Service Syndication, perusing the link below may prove interesting. Telecom service providers have been working in the S+S paradigm Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:44 AM by Eric G. Troup | 0 Comments

Office Open XML file formats receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard

An important enabler of the Microsoft Software + Services (S+S) strategy are Office Business Applications (OBA). They are made possible by key platform capabilities, called OBA Services, in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. These consist of: workflow, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:30 PM by Eric G. Troup | 1 Comments

MSDN Architecture Center adds new Software + Services Section

Software + Services (S+S) is a major initiative at Microsoft. S+S, as opposed to the more limited concept of SaaS, is all about combinations of local software and remote services interacting with one another. Local software leveraging remote services Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:30 PM by Eric G. Troup | 0 Comments

Commerical Content Delivery is not a "Gimme"

Recently I seem to have been involved in multiple ongoing discussions that revolve around the impact of greater than 100 Megabits per second wireless data service (via 4G / Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and the apparently increasing ease of creating rich Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:42 AM by Eric G. Troup | 1 Comments

Microsoft the Service Provider

Last week, the TeleManagement Forum ( www.tmforum.org ) held its Management World Americas event in Dallas, TX. Walking through the exhibit areas and reviewing the two Catalyst Projects that Microsoft contributed to, I began to think about how Microsoft Read More...

Posted Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:02 PM by Eric G. Troup | 1 Comments