April 2007 - Posts
One of the big themes of MIX is Silverlight . Silverlight allows developers and designers to release applications and content with extremely rich user experiences in a web browser. I knew Silverlight was going to be big, but the quality of the demos shown
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Just announced at MIX: Expression Studio is shipping today! Stay tuned for more exciting news from MIX ...
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As more and more business processes come online, users can find it challenging to know where to look for the official copy of a given piece of data, or to remember from where they can or cannot get to the same. Of course, b y “business processes” I mean
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I'd like to take this opportunity publically welcome Sanjay Jain and Bruce Kyle to our blog. Sanjay's arrival preceeded Bruce's so I'll introduce him first... Sanjay joins our team from deep in heart of Delaware, and has extensive experience with CRM
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Ok, a couple of people have asked me about the availability of Longhorn Server Virtualization with the recent announcement of Longhorn Beta 3 (see my previous post ). There is not currently a beta available for Windows Virtualization Services in Longhorn.
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At the risk of alienating the entire audience by posting about licensing, I want to provide the answer to a question I get asked frequently by ISVs. While lots of ISVs find the features of MOSS cool and compelling, they typically raise concerns about
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Microsoft announced the availability of Longhorn Beta 3 last night. Check out the Windows Server blog to get more information on what's new in Beta 3 and all the excitement around this significant milestone! You can download it from our web site today!
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Our partner machine is starting to roll on Dynamics CRM “Titan” and I’d love to help you get on board. If you are Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Level member and want to build your industry vertical or horizontal solution on CRM "Titan" drop me an email
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Much has been written about the Windows Presentation Foundation and the opportunities it enables by bringing designers together with developers to produce truly differentiated user experiences. Through the ISV programs we offer, our team has been engaging
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In our role as ISV Architect Evangelists we often are asked how to start partnering with Microsoft. Hopefully this will help get some of them started. ==== ABC’s for Software Vendors who want to partner with Microsoft There are many benefits for Independent
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S. Somasegar, Microsoft Corporate VP in the Developer Division, just announced that Visual Studio "Orcas" and .NET FX 3.5 Beta 1 has shipped. MSDN subscribers can download the .iso or the VPC image immediately. If you are not a current MSDN subscriber,
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Yesterday we officially announced the Microsoft ® SaaS Incubation Center Program, a global initiative to help independent software vendors (ISVs) adopt the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model. You can find out more about the program here .
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In case you missed it, last week the body charged with driving real-world web service interoperability ( WS-I ) has released version 1.0 of the Basic Security Profile. For ISV's, the WS-I work gives you a target to build & test your services against
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I was a little surprised to hear that some of the ISVs I work with had never heard of VSTA. Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is a platform for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to add managed application customization to their applications.
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That's right, we listened to all the feedback, did some more market research and decided to make Expression Web and Expression Blend available to MSDN Premium subscribers! This is exciting for ISVs because many of you do not have a designer on staff and
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