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Transition

As you may know, I am pursuing a new leadership opportunity within Microsoft. Effective March 3rd I will be transitioning into a new role as Corporate Vice President, OEM Division. This will be a cool opportunity for me to lead the OEM group through its Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 7:24 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 4 Comments

Validation for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Strategy

A key focus area in our platform strategy is business intelligence. Our goal is to provide all individuals, teams and entire organizations with BI solutions that drive bottom line performance and operational excellence. This was reiterated by Steve Ballmer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:53 PM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 RTMs!

Today Windows Server 2008 released to manufacturing and will be available for purchase to new customers on March 1 st . This is a critical milestone in our platform strategy as it will bring new levels of security and reliability to both enterprise and Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 3:52 PM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments

MIX 08

In case you missed it yesterday….. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie will join Scott Guthrie on stage as a keynote speaker at MIX08 on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Ray will discuss Microsoft’s continued investment across the platform to deliver Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:25 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments

Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}

We are doing some cool things to support our forthcoming Heroes Happen Here launch on 2/27 in LA. Check out the Daily Comic Series . A new comic strip will be available Monday – Friday. Sign up for the RSS feed here . The content and storylines in many Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:16 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 3 Comments

Change is Good

Notice something different today? Yes, we have updated the look and feel of the blog. I think I am hearing a sigh of relief from all of our readers. :-) We are also expanding the blog to bring in more news, opinions and topics from across the entire application Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 8:23 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 2 Comments

TechEd US Registration Opens

Today, registration opens for Tech·Ed U.S 2008 at www.microsoft.com/teched . Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s premier technical gathering for IT Professionals and Developers worldwide. Tech·Ed provides both audiences with top-notch technical education, connection Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:02 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 3 Comments
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20 years ago this week…

Twenty years ago we announced the first version of Microsoft SQL Server. This year we’re working towards launching SQL Server 2008, as part of the biggest enterprise launch in our company’s history. We ship more units of SQL Server than Oracle and IBM Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 12:55 PM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments
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Guest Blogger: Carol Dullmeyer, Director of Application Platform Communications

Today we have a guest blogger to share some insights - Carol Dullmeyer, Director of Application Platform Communications In my role on the Microsoft Application Platform team, I spend a lot of time speaking with industry analysts and customers. I have Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:51 PM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments

Happy New Year

Happy 2008 to everyone. Hope you all had a good holiday. Last year, we talked a lot about Web technologies and this year will be no different. The Application Platform team kicked things off with Silverlight taking front and center of Microsoft’s CES Read More...
Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 10:14 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments
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The End is Near…

Or at least the end of the year, which for me means time with the family and friends. I hope everyone has a quiet and relaxing holiday and uses technology for fun and relaxation and not solving “real world” problems J There have been some posts recently Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:41 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments
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A first for the movie industry, a first for Silverlight

While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been on the market since September and it is already being used to stream the first ever studio-backed full-length feature film – Jackass 2.5. For those of you 17 or older, you can see the movie Read More...
Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 9:57 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments
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MSDN Online Community Content

Check out Soma’s blog entry about the Community Content feature in the MSDN Online Library. This feature came online one year ago and now it has been extended to over 3.3 million topics of documentation, covering 8 languages, in the MSDN and TechNet online Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 2:08 PM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments

Investments for data-centric applications and services

I’m really excited about a couple of great new products to help developers be more productive in their day-to-day lives: the Entity Framework Beta 3 and the ASP.NET Extensions Preview. With today’s Beta 3 release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, we are Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:05 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments

Are There Really Any “Web Developers"

Seems like a strange question, but it’s been a topic of discussion in different forms within Microsoft recently. It might not be as much fun as trying to make them a unique audience, but it might be a more realistic view of the fact that the web has permeated Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:11 AM by Steven Guggenheimer | 1 Comments
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