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I’ve posted the slides from the “Exploring Software + Services” presentation Mark Relph and presented May 28, 2009 at the Canadian Leadership Summit. We had a great session as there were plenty of good questions throughout which was appreciated as it
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Two huge announcements I’m finding not a lot of people are aware of with regards to the latest release of Windows Live. 1. Skydrive is now 25GB (used to be 5GB) of free online storage. Not to me they did a great job integrating a nicer photo experience
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Here’s a snippet from the Day 2 keynote at PDC showing Office 14 Web Applications:
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Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m now in the keynote for Day 2 so will have more later on that later. Fact Sheets – Live Services, Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure, .NET 4.0
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http://www.microsoft.com/azure You are also able to register to try the Community Technology Preview. Here’s a copy paste from the “What is Windows Azure?” section on the www.microsoft.com/azure What is the Azure Services Platform?
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Key takeaways so far on what Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform are: Windows Azure: - A set of cloud-based technologies such as storage, identity, and multi-device sync that extend software development for both enterprise server and
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Ray Ozzie has kicked off PDC 2008 and is delivering his keynote right now. You can follow along at home/work by watching the keynote live.
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For those of you that attended the Canadian Strategic Architect forum a couple of weeks ago, Live Mesh is what I would have loved to be able to speak with you about during my talk on Windows Live Platform. Unfortunately the timing was two weeks off for
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Here’s the latest Windows Live Platform slide deck from my presentation today at the Canadian Strategic Architect Forum.
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I use the snipping tool in Windows Vista all the time. If you’ve ever wondered how to capture a menu using this tool, here’s how you do it (straight from the help file for the snipping tool btw) Can I capture a snip of a menu, such as a shortcut
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Huge announcement from John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform. Read the full post here , but I’ve pulled a few key elements from John’s blog post on dev.live.com Contact Data portability, partnership with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged
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Wow... Rick's got an incredibly interesting post regarding Albert Lai's comments in a recent Canadian Business magazine article " The Venture Gap ". So what is it in the article that turns Rick into "Cranky Rick"? Albert's comment:
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Via Angus (who's blog is definitely one you want to check out for all the latest on Live Platform. He also gave a killer presentation on Live Platform at Mix08 ) George Moore has a detailed post on the (new and improved!) dev.live.com blog "A Unified
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Joshua pulled together a nice list of all the Mix08 software. He's actually got another good Mix08 roundup post as well. Here's the list: Expression Studio Beta ( download ) The second release of Expression Studio adds a wealth of new features including
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Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch everyone (try to) tear up the casinos :-) But.... like Kenny says: "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to
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