Experience the Future of the Microsoft PlatformSteve Ballmer will talk about Software + Services live from Sydney Australia!http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/atom.xmlCommunity Server2008-10-13T10:43:00ZMichael Kordahi also caught up with Gianpaolo Carraro at PDChttp://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/2008/11/03/michael-kordahi-also-caught-up-with-gianpaolo-carraro-at-pdc.aspx2008-11-03T14:21:00Z2008-11-03T14:21:00Z<P>Meet <A class="" title="Gianpaolo Carraro" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gianpaolo" modo="false" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gianpaolo">Gianpaolo Carraro</A>, he is the service to Tim Sneath’s software and he’s been all over things like <A class="" title=AZURE href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure">Azure</A> for months now.</P>
<P>Gianpaolo and Tim the two bad boys who will be presenting along side <A class="" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/" modo="false" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/">Steve Ballmer this Thursday</A> 6th November at 3.30pm AEDT. The event is sold out, so make sure you <A class="" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/" modo="false" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/">catch it live online</A>.</P>
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<P mce_keep="true"> </P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9032648" width="1" height="1">ptdaustraliahttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/ptdaustralia.aspxOur Delicate Genius Michael Kordahi catches up with Tim Sneathhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/2008/11/03/our-delicate-genius-michael-kordahi-catches-up-with-tim-sneath.aspx2008-11-03T14:14:00Z2008-11-03T14:14:00Z<P>Michael Kordahi recently caught up with <A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims" modo="false">Tim Sneath</A> at PDC. Tim is the uber windows client evangelist (windows, WPF, Silverlight, ie8 etc).</P>
<P>Tim will be down in Sydney this week delivering content as part of the <A class="" title="Liberation Day" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers">Liberation Day</A> (aka Steve Ballmer’s visit). You can watch it live online at the <A class="" title="Liberation Day" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers">Liberation Day</A> website.</P>
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<P mce_keep="true"> </P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9032620" width="1" height="1">ptdaustraliahttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/ptdaustralia.aspxSteve Ballmer's Live Web Rally - Liberation Day!http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/2008/10/13/liberation-day-watch-steve-ballmer-live.aspx2008-10-13T02:43:00Z2008-10-13T02:43:00Z<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Many, if not all of us, have now heard about cloud computing, but many people do not yet know what Microsoft is doing with Client + Cloud computing. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">We’d like to invite you to join <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer</B> at a unique live Web Rally event where he’ll lay out our roadmap to the future of the Microsoft platform. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">On the Cloud side,<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Gianpaolo Carraro, Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation,</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">will discuss Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and how its various components come together, with a great range of demos. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">On the Client side, </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Tim Sneath, Director, Microsoft Corporation</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">, will show you technologies that work hand in hand with Cloud services to liberate you to build the applications you dream of – for Windows or the Web.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">So, bookmark 3.30pm (AEST) Thursday 6 November 2008 to watch the Live Web Rally and discover how the utility of client, integrated with the infinite power of cloud services, will create an evolutionary shift in our industry, and enable developers </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">to create the next generation of endlessly scalable applications.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Subscribe to our event RSS feed or friendfeed to stay updated! <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8997053" width="1" height="1">ptdaustraliahttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/ptdaustralia.aspx