Pooya's architect place (in the Gulf)

A lot of people have been asking me what the best way is to recieve invitations to our Microsoft Gulf events for developers and to recieve news from us on new technology. We have lots of sources for this, but the best way is to profile yourself and let Read More...

I somehow got a front row seat for the Steve Ballmer keynote ; blogging from here right now :) A funny and interesting keynote session, you have to see it to fully get the title. The audience questions are, as expected, mainly around the proposed Yahoo Read More...

Microsoft has continued to improve in the area of interoperabillity in the recent past and today is a big day in that regard. I spend a lot of time talking to our customers about our efforts in interoperablity, fighting some past perceptions of Microsoft. Read More...

Please join me and Anton along with the other attendees from TechEd Barcelona at the World Party on Wednesday November 7th .  If you are going to TechEd, please drop me a note and we can connect.  I'll be working at the "Ask the Experts" Read More...

Forgot to mention in the last post but the new Thinkpad is 64 bit. One drawback of this is that Windows Live Writer (Beta) does not support x64 yet . Fortunately there is a workaround, it is currently unsupported but if you can see this blog post then Read More...

In my job of evangelizing Microsoft technologies to our largest customers I often end up using Microsoft's internal IT experience as an example of large scale deployment. Our IT department is quite large and has to support some of the most demanding customers Read More...

I come back from vacation and see that a whole group of people I admire and have been reading for a while are joining Microsoft. This of course makes me feel good, some are longtime Microsoft advocates like softwaremaker ( http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog/MovingOnAndSwallowingTheRedPillFinally.aspx Read More...