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What a week!

Lots of stuff happening this week… Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was announced. There are multiple announcements inside this effort: New lineup of SKU’s Go Live license New logo / new look Beta 2 of .NET 4 Windows 7 Windows 7 launches this week. PowerPivot Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:11 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, Events, Architects, Windows 7, Windows Azure

FIRESTARTER – on-demand and live events

Free events to ignite your skills Heat up your skills with the all-new Firestarter event series. Each day tackles a single Microsoft technology, including free sessions presented live by Microsoft developer and IT pro evangelists and technology specialists Read More...

Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 11:21 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: Events, Architects, Silverlight, Windows 7

Live Virtual Presentation: Real World Azure

MSDN Events Present: Real World Azure Come spend an afternoon with us on September 29th to explore Windows Azure™ – Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying cloud based applications – from a real world point of view! During this event, Read More...

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 9:39 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: S+S, Architects, Windows Azure

Work for a small web firm?

WebsiteSpark is a new global program, designed by Microsoft to help small professional Web development and design service companies succeed, by providing new business opportunities through connections with global partners and customers, support and training, Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:46 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: Architects, ASP.NET, IIS

Know someone wanting to learn web development?

Or someone wanting to see if they’d like Visual Studio or even ASP.NET? Here’s an easy way, and you can’t beat the price! Check out Visual Web Developer Express , a free Visual Studio Web development environment for building and testing next generation Read More...

Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 9:55 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET AJAX, Architects, ASP.NET

Bing your App! (even with Ruby)

Ran across an interesting article today. Titled LearnHub: Powered by Rails, Searches with Bing , this is about a Canadian social learning network site for preparing students for standardized testing (called LearnHub ). It talks about their struggles with Read More...

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 3:43 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: Architects, Bing

MIX09: Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight & WPF

Session: Recording , Code: T87F, 59 minutes Jeff Wilcox , Software Development Engineer, Silverlight Toolkit team, Microsoft Agenda Client platform vision What’s shared between Silverlight and WPF? Today’s Controls and Features Building controls for Silverlight Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:42 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, Architects, WPF, Silverlight, MIX

What are the Microsoft codenames “Oslo” and “Dublin”?

What is "Oslo"? (from the “Oslo” developer site ,) "Oslo" is the code name for our platform for model-driven applications. The goal of "Oslo" is to provide a 10x productivity gain by making model-driven applications mainstream. Read More...

Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 12:36 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Windows Server 2008, Workflow, BizTalk, WCF, Architects, ASP.NET, IIS

My Visit to MIX

I’ll break this down in more detail at a later time. You can see some keynote details at my Twitter page . Day 1 Keynote: Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie ( video ) Windows Mobile 6.5 Overview : Loke Uei Tan ( video ) Building Amazing Business Centric Applications Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:57 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: Mobile, Events, S+S, Architects, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Azure, MIX

Probably no more important MIX than this year’s

Well, it’s that time again. MIX is an important event where we show our thinking and direction for the web. Again targeted at designers and web developers, this event continues to bring in voices from the online companies – like frog design, Yahoo!, MySpace, Read More...

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 2:31 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Mobile, Events, ASP.NET AJAX, WCF, Architects, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Azure, Photosynth, Windows 7

The Interoperability Principles

Working in a competitive environment for a successful company, one often hears perceptions of different leaders. Some are intelligent issues, and some are of a different category – myths, lies, FUD, etc. Since I heard one today that was incomprehensible Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:31 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint, Windows Vista, Architects, SQL Server

A Simple Explanation of Software-plus-Services

Christoph pointed out a video that explains our S+S story in a simple and informative way. It’s here on YouTube, and also here on Soapbox. Software-plus-Services is the next logical step in the evolution of computing. It represents an industry Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:38 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: S+S, Architects, DPE

LAMP, WAMP, and WIMP

I have had several of my Linux friends lately come to me about their unhappiness with their world, and if they could move their apps to Windows. I keep telling folks that this is possible, but I haven’t tried it myself. But now, here’s a resource. Keith Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:53 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Architects, IIS

Microsoft Data Center Team Discloses Gen4 Vision

Unless you have worked around datacenter operations, you may not fully appreciate this post. At any rate, you should take a look at a post from Mike Manos on Our Vision for Generation 4 Modular Data Centers - One way of Getting it just right . Talking Read More...

Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 3:46 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: S+S, Architects, Azure

Where’s the nearest MDC?

For the Heartland district (the Microsoft territory that I’m assigned to), we’re promoting Detroit (JAN 22). However, that might not make sense for my friends in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. So, be aware that there are quality Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:39 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Events, Architects, Azure, Parallel Programming