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Windows Azure Service Managment API now in CTP
18 September 09 05:16 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

The Windows Azure team released a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API the other day.  This API is REST-based, and currently supports the following operations (according to the Windows Azure team blog): Deployments Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, windows azure, cloud computing

FedEx QuickShip Revisited
17 September 09 07:14 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Jon Box has short post today talking about our partnership with FedEx a while back to help them build and launch their FedEx QuickShip service.  The formal launch was on stage with Bill Gates at the Office Developers Conference – exciting times!  Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, ODC2008, Office, OBA, FedEx

Intro to Windows Azure in one slide
07 July 09 03:27 AM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

NOTE: Microsoft just changed the branding a bit so this slide needs to be updated - basically, the Azure Service Platform becomes the Windows Azure Platform, SQL Data Services becomes SQL Azure. Live Services leaves the platform (does not go away, but Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, windows azure, cloud computing

How WPF can help your golf game, or PING’s new beginning
14 May 09 08:18 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

This app from PING, called nFlight, is extremely cool.  Beautiful, sophisticated, and fun.  nFlight analyzes your golf swing to develop specifications for custom fit golf clubs.  The app performs complex simulations and renders beautiful Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, consumer experience, WPF, S+S, Software + Services

Cool new spatial analysis for SharePoint users
05 May 09 06:30 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

I’ve always been sort of a map nut.  In fact, I love maps (there, I said it! :) ).  Way back when I was Director of Elections for a county out in the State of Washington, I used to spend a lot of time with maps.  In particular, we had a Read More...

Filed under: business intelligence, silverlight, S+S, Software + Services, spatial analysis

Wait, does All Things D / BoomTown actually agree with Microsoft on Software-plus-services?
14 April 09 07:25 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Did I just hear Kara Swisher from All Things Digital’s BoomTown blog let it slip that she agrees with Microsoft on “Software-plus-services”?     Kara interviewed Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division, about 10 days back Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services

Symmetry between SQL Server and SQL Data Services – video interview
13 April 09 10:32 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Patric McElroy, Group Program Manager of SQL Data Services team talks with Michael Cote of RedMonk about what’s coming with the new SDS, and where there will be symmetry with SQL Server.  Really nice interview!  This was recorded a few weeks Read More...

Filed under: innovation, S+S, Software + Services, windows azure, cloud computing, SQL Data Services

Video – Zune on Windows Mobile 7 vs. The Greater Sum
05 April 09 06:17 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Just saw this fun video from a post over at Live Side … funny thing, they hone in on whether or not one of the device interfaces is a preview of Windows Mobile 7 with a Zune app.  To me, the the far more interesting thing is the qualitatively new, Read More...

Filed under: WPF, S+S, Software + Services, Windows Live, Future, windows 7, windows azure

View MIX09 sessions all online!
27 March 09 01:10 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Thanks to the MIX team for getting a nice, organized list of all the   MIX09 session videos up – complete with multiple video formats, as well as slides! http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/All Not as good as being there, but essentially great, Read More...

Filed under: consumer experience, S+S, Software + Services, Windows Live, Messenger control, MIX

Getting your next yacht with Microsoft Surface – more news
17 February 09 07:24 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Some additional news today about getting your next Lazzara Yacht with Microsoft Surface (see here for original post ).  There are really two parts to this story: Lazzara’s announcement marks the first time Microsoft Surface is being made available Read More...

Filed under: Surface, S+S, Software + Services

Learn the Azure Services Platform with these practical, free little videos
11 February 09 05:53 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then at 30 fps, the “How Do I…” video series on the Azure Services Platform should be good for a library full of worth of Azure Services Platform goodness! Indeed, that’s just the idea: to create a video library Read More...

Filed under: S+S, training, windows azure

Get the Mesh Video Player
06 February 09 01:49 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

Brian Gorbett has a good post about how he built a Meshified video player .  What’s especially cool about this is that Brian also posted a screen cast video of him Meshifying the app, a link to the source code, AND a link to install the Meshified Read More...

Filed under: S+S, windows azure, Live Mesh, Live Framework, Live Services

Making tool bars interesting again. No, really.
12 December 08 07:04 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Here's something interesting from InfoSpace... a tool bar! No, really. In fact, see for yourself over at Sam Chenaur's site . He's got a nice screen grab, too. This is not your "father's toolbar". I tried to get my own screen grab from the Recipe toolbar Read More...

Filed under: innovation, UX, User Experience, silverlight, S+S, Software + Services

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The purpose of Chrome, and how it may be good for Microsoft
05 September 08 07:43 PM | john.mullinax | 7 Comments   

Started this as a comment on Larry Digan's blog here , but it ended up so darn long I decided to make it a post on its own right here. A few more thoughts on Chrome. Just my 2 cents. -John ... More than anything else, Chrome strikes me as a "trojan horse" Read More...

Filed under: Microsoft, strategy, S+S, Software + Services, Future

And the winner of the BillG - signed Guitar Hero guitar at ODC 2008 is...
14 February 08 06:45 AM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   

As I mentioned here , we held a raffle earlier today to give away a Guitar Hero III guitar, complete with Bill Gates' autograph, at the Office Developers Conference 2008. The guitar played a part in the FedEx demo during BillG's keynote kicking off the Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, Billg, ODC2008, OBA, FedEx