Strategy and Architecture Council
Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism - U.S. West Region
Windows Phone Wants to Feature Your App!!!
Got a great app idea? Building an amazing app right now? Your app could be featured in its own...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 11/07/2011
Windows Phone Night Parties Los Angeles – Nov 30 & Dec 1, 2011
Join us for one of our exclusive events across the U.S. and get a first look at the hottest new...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 10/26/2011
TechNet Events Presents: The Pathway to the Private Cloud
Get Ready for Tomorrow, Today - Hyper-V Virtualization for the Cloud Virtualization is one of the...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 10/26/2011
More Windows Azure DevCamps in December 2011
Event Locations 12/2 - Santa Monica, CA 12/13 - Redmond, WA 12/15- Phoenix, AZ Events run from 9:00...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 10/24/2011
Windows Azure DevCamps Silicon Valley | October 28-29, 2011
Event Location Mt. View, CA Date Oct. 28-29, 2011 Time 8:00AM - 6:00PM Location Silicon Valley...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 10/06/2011
Windows Phone “Mango” Update Begins!
The Windows Phone “Mango” update process began this morning at around 10:00am PST as the Windows...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 09/27/2011
Customize a Windows Phone 7 Live Tile
Windows Phone 7 “Mango” adds a lot of great new features to Live Tiles. An app can now create...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 08/30/2011
In advance of Windows 8, it’s good to look back at where the Ribbon came from…
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Author: dpeuswr Date: 08/30/2011
In advance of Windows 8, it’s good to look back at where the Ribbon came from…
Steven Sinofsky, President of Windows Division at Microsoft, has started a new blog, Building...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 08/30/2011
In advance of Windows 8, its good to look back at where the Ribbon came from
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Author: dpeuswr Date: 08/30/2011
Dilbert’s Scott Adams accepts the Windows Phone Challenge
We’re all likely familiar with Scott Adams Dilbert cartoon although what you might not have heard...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/27/2011
Windows Phone “Mango” – Released to Manufacturing
While I’m sure you have already heard the news, Windows Phone “Mango” was Released to Manufacturing...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/26/2011
Got Exceptions? AppHub Windows Phone Application Crash Reporting
Any developer will tell you that debugging applications in production environments presents them...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/26/2011
Free HTML5 Training | August 19, 2011 | Los Angeles
As developers, you keep hearing a lot about HTML5, but many don’t know what it actually means...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 07/26/2011
Boeing Takes to the Cloud with a Solution to Market its Best-Selling Airplane
Yesterday during the opening keynote of the Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer announced...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/12/2011
Install Windows Phone “Mango” on Retail Devices
Brandon Watson wrote a blog post this morning that should be music to the ears of all Windows Phone...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/29/2011
Microsoft Advertising SDK Update is Now Available
We’re excited to let you know that we’ve just released an updated version of the Microsoft...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/29/2011
Microsoft Gamefest 2011 – Seattle, WA August 22-23, London, England July 14-15, and Tokyo July 29!
From the launch of the new Windows Phone to the award-winning Kinect for Xbox 360 to Windows 7 and...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/13/2011
Crowdsourcing Discussion at Caltech | June 11, 2011
Crowdsourcing, as a method of leveraging the massive pool of online users as resources, has become a...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 06/08/2011
When products attack -or- How bad design makes your users loose sleep
I’ll admit it: I’m grumpy right now. Why, you might ask? This morning, as I was snoozing...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/03/2011
New Disney Tron Legacy Site Comes Alive With HTML5 in Internet Explorer 9
Another exciting use of HTML5 with Windows Internet Explorer 9 is the new Disney Tron Legacy Digital...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/03/2011
2012 Election for Windows Phone RTM
Over the Memorial Day weekend I wrote two patriotic applications, the Independence Day application...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/02/2011
BUILD will show you that ‘Windows 8’ changes everything!
Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined. BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/02/2011
BUILD | 2011.09.13-16 | Anaheim, CA
BUILD is the event that shows you how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Get insight on...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 06/02/2011
Independence Day for Windows Phone 7 RTM
With Memorial Day this past weekend I decided to take sometime and write a patriotic application or...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/31/2011
Samsung Focus Ranked #1 AT&T Smartphone, Sorry Apple!
The Samsung Focus ranked as the number one smartphone in the PC Magazine Readers Choice Awards 2011:...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/26/2011
Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta Release
Today, in New York City, Andy Lees announced the next major release of Windows Phone, previously...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/24/2011
Windows Phone Press Conference, New York City – Tune in Tomorrow 10:00AM EST
Michael Stroh just blogged about tomorrow’s press conference in New York City where we’ll discuss...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/23/2011
IE9 Site Pinning - BuildMyPinnedSite.com
When you enhance your site to take advantage of site pinning with Windows Internet Explorer 9 you go...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/20/2011
Verizon Wireless Launching Windows Phone 7 HTC Trophy
If you’re one of the many Verizon Wireless subscribers who have been eagerly awaiting a CDMA based...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/20/2011
Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 RTM
Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 is now Released to Marketplace (RTM) and within this blog post I thought...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/17/2011
Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android
At the Microsoft MIX 2011 conference we discussed the fact that both IDC and Gartner issued reports...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/12/2011
Event - XAPFest LA 2011 Saturday, June 4th, 2011 | 9AM – 10PM
XAPFest LA 2011 Saturday, June 4th, 2011 | 9AM – 10PM Loews Santa Monica 1700 Ocean Avenue, Santa...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 05/11/2011
15 Design Principles
So I’m an “occasional” (nee terrible) blogger. Most of my time at Microsoft is spent in my...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/06/2011
The most important design talk you’ll see this year
From MIX11 – August de los Reyes, Design Director of Artefact Group (formerly of Microsoft Surface)...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/06/2011
Using Images as Buttons on Windows Phone 7
Within the Windows Phone 7 marketplace there are more than 12,000 applications and one such...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 04/22/2011
Hello Windows Phone 7 OS (codenamed “Mango”)
Perhaps you’ve heard already about Windows Phone 7 OS (codenamed “Mango”)? Here is...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 04/13/2011
MIX 2011 Keynote Day 1 - Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview, ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Refresh, Entity Framework 4.1
Microsoft's MIX 2011 conference began this morning with Dean Hachamovich, Microsoft Corporate VP...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 04/12/2011
Internet Service Bus and Windows Azure AppFabric
Microsoft’s AppFabric, part of a set of ”application infrastructure” (or middleware) technologies,...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 03/24/2011
Windows 7 slate PCs Part 2
Last time, I gave some motivation and context for this series and discussed a couple of...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 03/18/2011
IE9 is Released
With the release of IE9 I have seen a number of both internal and external questions about the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 03/16/2011
Windows 7 slate PCs Part 1
I’ve been working on these things quite a bit … We call them “slates” … specifically Windows...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 03/16/2011
Rise of the cloud ecosystems
I had the opportunity to participate at this year’s CloudConnect conference, with my session on...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 03/16/2011
Cloud-optimized architecture and Advanced Telemetry
One of the projects I had the privilege of working with this past year, is the Windows Azure...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 03/14/2011
Unplug from your day job. Be inspired at MIX
One of my favorite annual conferences is back again this year in Las Vegas. Yes, despite the...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 03/07/2011
The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning
I was happy to see that a colleague and friend, David Pallman (GM at Neudesic and one of the few...
Author: David C. Chou Date: 03/04/2011