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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

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

Windows Phones: A New Name, and Raising The Game

Yesterday, Microsoft presented at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona. Steve Ballmer and Andy Lees presented our strategy for our mobile strategy. One of the early points is that we are calling our devices Windows Phones. We also announced officially Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:26 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Mobile, Events, S+S, Silverlight, Windows 7

Anyone in Louisville looking for a Tools Roadmap Presentation?

You are invited to a dinner presentation of the Microsoft Developer Tools and Platform Roadmap hosted by Microsoft and Cardinal Solutions and a chance to win an XBOX 360. Topics for this presentation include: · What is coming in Visual Studio Team System Read More...

Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 12:10 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, Events, S+S, Azure

Interesting News of the Day

See the resulting Synth of Inauguration Check out how the CNN Inauguration Photosynth turned out (after my earlier promotion ). Uses Silverlight and the Photosynth viewer to see, but very cool how they do this. You can zoom in and see President Obama Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:20 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Mobile, Windows Live, S+S, Silverlight, Photosynth

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

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

More games added in Zune 3.1 update

The Zune 3.0 update was a nice addition. One of the nice things was the addition of games: Hexic and Texas Hold‘em. Plus, downloading/buying the current song playing on the radio. Today, I connected the Zune and downloaded v3.1 which includes Checkers, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:13 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: S+S, Zune

PDC Team announces some valuable swag

Done in entertaining way, see this video to get the latest on PDC . They also mention unannounced software that will be given out… Read More...

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 1:29 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Events, S+S, Architects

San Antonio serves up part of our S+S story

To service Windows Live and Microsoft Online Services , you have to build a global infrastructure. A part of this story is building datacenters, and the San Antonio data center is the next part of the story. Consider a few facts of this effort: 470K sq. Read More...

Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:49 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: S+S

.NET StockTrader 2.0 and Configuration Service 2.0 now live on MSDN!

As you may have seen a year ago, Microsoft released .NET StockTrader 1.0 to show how .NET 3.0 could work in the context of the IBM WebSphere's Trade 6.1 reference application. We've now upgraded ours to reflect the enhancements in .NET 3.5 and Windows Read More...

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 4:28 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Windows Server 2008, S+S, WCF, ASP.NET

David Chappell, The Man!, coming to a city near you

I've been a fan of David Chappell for a long time, starting with his Understanding AcitveX and OLE book (back in my DCOM programming days), and then later with Understanding .NET . His ability to articulate the how's and why's of doing things in development Read More...

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 10:20 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Events, S+S, Architects

Digital Lifestyle Video - with "Girl From Mars"

Saw this today on Mel Sampat's blog (which is a good read). But this video is cool, and the song is good. It's an entertaining music video showing a bunch of Microsoft technologies along the way. Professionally done, pretty believable looking story, and Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Filed under: Mobile, Windows Vista, Miscellaneous, Windows Live, S+S, Cool Stuff

What To Make from the ODC Keynote

Today is a culmination of some hard work done across a team of FedEx, Microsoft, and Interknowlogy folks. During the Bill Gates keynote at ODC this morning, David Zanka (SVP, E-commerce, FedEx) announced QuickShip and some other possible FedEx direction. Read More...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 7:06 PM by jonbox | 3 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, SharePoint, Events, Office Development, Miscellaneous, S+S

Connected Consumer Experience in Automobiles

I've been published again with some peers in DPE, Christoph Schittko and Darryl Hogan . The article is in Issue 14 of The Architecture Journal , our magazine targeted to architects. There are a couple of ways to get to the content. First, you could Read More...

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 12:46 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Mobile, Visual Studio, Windows Live, S+S, Architects