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Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'

Getting the clouds to rain (add value)

October 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Services, Technology

Tweet Certainly the vision of Windows Azure (aka “Red Dog”) and the Azure Services Platform is substantial. However, in order for Microsoft, its partners and customers to realize it, it must deliver business value. Internal or external, cloud computing has to address a set of real business problems in order to become a relevant part [...]

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Head in the clouds

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Services, Technology

TweetIt appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions: Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson A Lap around Windows Azure “Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending [...]

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Upcoming travel

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Life, Technology

TweetThis has been a light blogging month thus far; however, I suspect this is about to change due to the following events I’ll be traveling to during the rest of October: EMC’s 2nd annual Innovation Conference (e.g. sample coverage of last year’s inaugural event: [1], [2], [3]) A follow-on EMC summit on next-generation collaboration Microsoft [...]

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WinFS morphs

June 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology

As a standalone system component, WinFS is no more; however, its technologies live on…

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ADO.NET is the WinFS API

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Technology

The WinFS team is passionate about integrated data and storage.

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