http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/12/31/grady-booch-on-the-microsoft-application-architecture-guide-2-0.aspxGrady Booch blogged about our patterns &amp; practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 , which is our Microsoft playbook for the application platform.&#160; It's a thoughtful post and he obviously took the time to figure out the structure of the guide.&#160;&#160;en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/12/31/grady-booch-on-the-microsoft-application-architecture-guide-2-0.aspx#9301561Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:33:49 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9301561J.D. Meier's Blog<p>It's a platform, a playbook, and a language for application architecture. At a high level, that's how</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/12/31/grady-booch-on-the-microsoft-application-architecture-guide-2-0.aspx#9402773Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:47:58 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9402773J.D. Meier's Blog<p>One of the questions I get asked is how did we execute our patterns &amp;amp; practices Application Architecture</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/12/31/grady-booch-on-the-microsoft-application-architecture-guide-2-0.aspx#9411129Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:16:23 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9411129B. Jorge Ferro<p>Why not to use the term software architecture instead of application architecture?</p> <p>I noted that when in the guide comes the definition of application architecture (page 8), authors use the term software architecture.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/12/31/grady-booch-on-the-microsoft-application-architecture-guide-2-0.aspx#9411871Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:44:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9411871J.D. Meier<p>@ B. Jorge Ferro</p> <p>Partly precedent.</p> <p>Partly around expectations. &nbsp;I think the original precedent was driven by &quot;Line-of-Business applications&quot; which is a more specific subset of &quot;software.&quot;</p>