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Microsoft's patents and patent applications in Cloud Computing

Here's some great info on Microsoft’s patents and patent applications in the area of Cloud Computing.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/result.html?p=1&edit_alert=&srch=xprtsrch&query_txt=AN%2Fmicrosoft+AND+cloud+AND+search&uspat=on&usapp=on&date_range=last20&stemming=on&sort=chron&search=Search. 

It is not necessary to read an entire patent to understand the main concepts.  Instead, you can read the ABSTRACTS, which appear at the top of each document. 

These patents provide insights into Microsoft’s thinking about Cloud Computing.

You can also check out direct information on Microsoft’s Cloud initiatives at http://www.azure.com, http://office.live.com/ and http://www.mesh.com.

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Murray Gordon
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Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:24 PM by murrayg | 0 Comments
My Favorite Sessions from PDC08

Here's the complete list of sessions from PDC and my personal favorites.

You can find all the recordings of these sessions at www.microsoftpdc.com.

Here's my personal favorites:

Windows Azure (Hosted ASP, Workflow, Silverlight, RAW / Azure Storage)

A Lap Around Windows Azure (ES16) - 0:46 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform (BB01) - 1:12 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Live and Mesh (Sync, Feeds, Resources, Contacts, etc.)

A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services (BB04) - 1:15 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework (BB30) - 1:34 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services (BB31) - 1:10 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

SQL Data Services (Structured Storage, Query, Sort)

A Lap around SQL Services (BB23) - 1:00 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Windows 7

Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop (PC24) - 0:50 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Developing Multi-touch Applications (PC03) - 1:21 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

Surface

Developing for Microsoft Surface (PC17) - 1:13 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

Oslo

A Lap around "Oslo" (TL23) - 1:24 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

Here's the complete list with links to the sessions:

 

Thanks to Cliff Jacobson and Mike Swanson for the complete list of sessions that happened at PDC.

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Murray Gordon
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Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:08 PM by murrayg | 1 Comments
PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect

Just found out about the new PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect.

This is definitely worth checking out.

Now Available:  PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect

Available now for immediate download from http://Wintellect.com/PowerThreading is the latest version of Wintellect’s free Power Threading Library by Jeffrey Richter.  This new version includes a DLL for use by Silverlight applications and components.  In particular, the Silverlight version includes Jeffrey’s popular AsyncEnumerator class that allows developers to use a synchronous programming model while performing asynchronous operations. This allows developers to create very fast and responsive applications while using very few threads. The class also offers various coordination activities such as cancellation, timeout, discarding, and so on. Limited free support for the library is available via http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PowerThreading/, while full-featured support is available via contract with Wintellect.

“With Silverlight, developers have the best of both worlds: the ability to create rich client-side applications deployed via the web. In order to keep the web browser responsive, Silverlight allows only asynchronous operations; synchronous operations are not allowed. My Power Threading library allows developers to easily perform asynchronous operations while using a synchronous programming model. This is useful for any application performing I/O operations with file streams, web site requests, web service requests, and more.” -Jeffrey Richter

Very cool.

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Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:24 AM by murrayg | 0 Comments
Microsoft Developer Conference (MDC) in Atlanta on Dec. 16

We have an upcoming Architect/Developer event called MDC or "Microsoft Developer Conference" that will have an entire day dedicated to Cloud Computing.  It will be a great destination for the real juicy details on how to do Cloud Computing using Microsoft Technologies.

Here's the link to the site: http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/Atlanta.aspx

I'm looking forward to it.

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Date: December 16, 2008

Location:

The Westin Peachtree Plaza
210 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30303-1745
(404) 659-1400

There will be some great speakers and awesome content.

This is a great opportunity to get caught up on how to develop/architect for the cloud.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:42 AM by murrayg | 1 Comments
Adoption of Google Chrome is dropping

Looks like the adoption of Google's Chrome is dropping...

Google Chrome usage share has been dropping since its launch.

Check it out on Marketshare (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=24&qprid=34&qpcustom=Chrome+0.2&qpsp=3531&qpnp=52&qptimeframe=D)

Chrome Marketshare

Can't help but be a little psyched about this.Open-mouthed

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Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:06 PM by murrayg | 1 Comments
Some great webcasts on WPF, App security and ASP.NET

Here's some great webcasts to check out, just around the corner on WPF, ASP.NET and writing secure applications.

If you're reading this an the webcast has already happened, you can check out the recording at the same link.

  • MSDN Webcast: BenkoTIPS Live and On-Demand: 10 Ways Your Applications Can Be More Secure on Windows Vista
    10/22/08 11:00 AM (PST); http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032390933&Culture=en-US. In this webcast, you learn 10 reasons why your application can be more secure when it is deployed on Windows Vista. We also cover the new capabilities designed to protect memory, minimize privilege, and provide resource-oriented access control, plus a plethora of additional security enhancements.

 

 

 

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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:34 PM by murrayg | 0 Comments
Check out the New Look of the US ISV Team Blog!

If you are reading this on an RSS aggregator or RSS reader you might want to check out the new look of the US ISV Team Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde

Thanks to everyone involved for helping out on the new look.

Special thanks to Susan Friesen and Kevin Kennedy from BBDO Atlanta. I really appreciate the help and I definitely owe you one.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:

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Check it out!

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Murray Gordon
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Microsoft Corporation 
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Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:10 AM by murrayg | 0 Comments
Microsoft is now the leader in Enterprise Search (Gartner)

Congrats to guys at Microsoft's Enterprise Search Group.

According to Gartner, Microsoft is now the leader in Enterprise Search. You can check out the report at http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article4/article4.html.

Kudos for all the hard work across Enterprise Search Group spanning Search Server Express, SharePoint and FAST ESP.

Here's a screenshot of the Magic Quadrant. Not Microsoft is in the top right quandrant, commonly referred to as the magic quadrant. Microsoft combines the lead with both the ability to execute and the completeness of vision.

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Very exciting!

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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:08 AM by murrayg | 0 Comments
Rockstar Developer Podcast - Episode 1 with Andrew Connell

I'm so excited! Finally got out the first episode of my new podcast series called the Rockstar Developer Podcast.

This episode features Andrew Connell and is all about SharePoint and how developers can leverage SharePoint as a platform on which to build enterprise applications. The twist is that it's all about how ISV's developers building commercial software can build their commercial applications on top of SharePoint.

Here's the link to the video on SoapBox. (Rockstar Developer Podcast - Episode 1 with Andrew Connell and Murray Gordon)

Hope you like it. It's always great to sit down and chat with Andrew Connell. Great guy, down to earth and a true Rockstar Developer for SharePoint.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:54 AM by murrayg | 0 Comments
Customers look to save money with virtualization

Interesting post of what folks are seeing in the field with Hyper-V.

Looks like people are actually interested in saving money with their virtualization strategy. Imagine that Open-mouthed

Check out Andrew Connell's recent post where he chat's about virtualization and what's he's seeing in the industry.

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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:32 AM by murrayg | 0 Comments
Custom SharePoint Caching with SharePoint file dependencies

Great post on custom SharePoint caching with SharePoint file dependencies by Vincent Rothwell.

» SharePoint caching and CacheDependency

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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:24 AM by murrayg | 1 Comments
Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites

There's a great article that Andrew Connell recently published that's worth a read, if you touching SharePoint currently or will be in the near future. The article, Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites, addresses some common things you should keep in mind in planning, architecting, designing and implementing your Publishing sites.

Here's a summary on what the article is all about:

In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has taken the best concepts and capabilities from an earlier product, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, and added them to the SharePoint platform. These new capabilities, known as Web content management (WCM), facilitate the creation of content-centric sites on the SharePoint platform. Although they are SharePoint sites at their core, these sites have additional functionality that is facilitated by publishing features. These SharePoint features add special libraries and lists to SharePoint sites. Sites on which the publishing features are activated are known as publishing sites.

Publishing sites adhere to most, if not all, of the prescriptive guidance and generally accepted best practices for SharePoint sites. However, becaus