Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft
I am responsible for the adoption of emerging technology platforms by developers and it professionals at Microsoft
IIS7 key features show through web casts
Ryan on the team demo'd some of the key new features of IIS7 at a reviewers event here at Redmond....
Author: neilhut Date: 11/27/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings
In September, we recorded the key sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop....
Author: neilhut Date: 11/26/2007
New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Lab
One of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit is now online and available as an...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/21/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit - Download it now
After the release of Visual Studio to RTM, the tools and framework evangelism team are pleased to...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/20/2007
SNEAK PEAK - Windows HPC Server 2008
Giovanni in the team has created a screen cast for the first beta of Windows Server HPC 2008 (V2 of...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/16/2007
WIndows HPC Server 2008 - New Name, New VERSION, NEW SPEED
So at Super Computing 2007 we announced a new name called Windows HPC Server 2008 ( instead of...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/13/2007
Manchester University move to Windows for High Performance Computing
Giovanni in the team has been working really closely with the University of Manchester on a High...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/13/2007
EDGE is Launched
Well I guess the story is out anyway, with Mary Jo Foley's post about the EDGE site over the...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/12/2007
Daniel Reed Joins Microsoft to head up Multi-core Computing Research
For a while now, multi-core and symmetric processing have become hot issues within the software...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/12/2007
Does Google want to be in the phone business with "Android"
So Google announced that they are going to offer a free phone operating system to the mobile...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/07/2007
Announcing Windows Essential Business Server
After two years of announcing our intent to build a medium business solution, the Windows Server...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/07/2007
Managing Local Policy on a Windows Server Core Installation Set to "Workgroup" config
There has been a recent discussion about managing policy for a Windows Server Core instance that is...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/06/2007
TechED Europe - Meet the Server and Tools Evangelism Team
For TechED Europe ( Developer ) this year in Barcelona, a number of my team are going to be there...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/05/2007
EDGE
Psssss. There are a whole number of these stickers around Building 18 which look like this? If I ask...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/01/2007
Windows Sharepoint Services splits from Windows Server 2008
Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 is going to be removed from the final version of Windows Server 2008...
Author: neilhut Date: 11/01/2007
Vittorio Bertocci Nominated for ID WORLD Award
Vittorio in our team has been nominated for this years ID WORLD Community award as a recognized...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/31/2007
Internet Service BUS - CONNECTIVITY and MODELLING
Here is the latest ARCAST from Ron Jacobs who speaks to John Shewchuck and David Wortendyke about a...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/30/2007
Cdiscount goes LIVE with CardSpace
With news headlines like "Apparent Ebay Hacker Posts Credit Card Numbers of Ebay Users" there is...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/29/2007
THE ART OF XEN for CITRIX
If anyone has any doubts about how important virtualisation is, then please take another look. Sure,...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/25/2007
POPFLY goes BETA!!
Today at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Steve Ballmer will unveil the Popfly Beta. The...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/18/2007
Does FACEBOOK-MYSPACE Get to Validate the "Services" API?
A few days ago, TechCrunch reported that MySpace is creating a developer platform. While this has...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/17/2007
"TOTAL RECALL" - Arnold Schwarzenegger looks back at his films
Who remembers that film? Total Recall, where Arnold had been brainwashed about his experiences...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/16/2007
Government eID Project goes Live in Singapore
Vittorio on the team has been working with the CardSpace product group and the local Singapore...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/16/2007
Making Silverlight "Boring"
Woke up to a funny email this morning. David Tesar in my team has been working on a Silverlight...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/05/2007
Channel9 post on the .NET Framework "SOURCE CODE" announcement - SEE IT IN ACTION
Yesterday I talk about the announcement that the .NET Framework Library source code was going to be...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/04/2007
.NET Framework Library source code released with Visual Studio
Busy times, as we head to the Windows Server / Visual Studio launch - who knows what else we are...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/03/2007
Windows Server Virtualization - First views and getting the bits
Around a week ago we shipped RC0 of Windows Server 2008. With this came the first public build which...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/01/2007
Home server - Cool "Add-Ins"
It has been a while since I have seen so many people developing cool applications and add-ins for a...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/27/2007
Hardware Virtualization - A Reality?
The Virtualization market is certainly going through a number of radical changes and will continue...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/11/2007
Works with Windows Server 2008?
In the past it has always been pretty hard for partners or customers writing server applications to...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/05/2007
AMD Are looking to extend the X86 chipset to support more parallel capabilities
Looks like AMD ( who are still struggling to keep up with Intel in the chip manufacture process )...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/24/2007
Picture Services - Using the syndication and RESTful capabilities of WCF TO share your pictures AND INFO
The team has been at it again!!! They have build a pretty cool sample which allows you to return...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/23/2007
EATING THE DOG FOOD - Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
At Microsoft, we do a lot of "dog fooding" of our technologies in the datacenter before they are...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/12/2007
The Universal Sign for Information Cards
The industry has made great steps at making RSS easy to understand, by supporting the simple RSS...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/28/2007
Want to be paid for having fun with Windows Server 2008 and beyond?
Volker in the team is hiring for a new role in the team to evanglise virtualisation technologies in...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/25/2007
Biztalk Services Explained
James on the team just posted a great interview with John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos on BizTalk...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/19/2007
Mary Jo Foley Article on the "Building the New Server"
I had the chance recently to meet us with Mary Jo Foley and had a discussion about how we support...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/06/2007
Transacted NTFS code - TechED DEV335
Presented the session "Whats new for Developers in Windows Server 2008" at TechED yesterday. We were...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/06/2007
Want to lead Orcas or IIS7 evangelism?
James in the team is looking for a couple of special people who would lead the effort to evanglise...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/01/2007
Interop for the Identity Metasystem
Last week Microsoft announced a bunch of things to improved interoperability around online identity...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/29/2007
NIC, NAP Paddy NAC
Microsoft, TCG and Juniper today agreed to work together to ensure customers have interoperable...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/21/2007
Top things we did not call Windows Server 2008
Well, with the annoucement this week of Windows Server 2008 as the official name for Windows Server...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/18/2007
POPFLY
Well the word is out about Microsoft "Popfly". Pretty cool stuff for people wanting to build simple...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/18/2007
IIS7 GO Live
I have been getting the question pretty often since we released Beta 3 of Longhorn Server, "I would...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/17/2007
Virtually Sad
Its always sad when you have to reduce scope for a product release. Today we revieled that quite a...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/10/2007
IIS vs Apache
The debate rolls on. I guess this must be the 11th year since Microsoft shipped its first IIS web...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/09/2007
Securing a Web Service using cardspace and "Orcas"
Vittorio in the team has just completed a tutorial on his blog which walks through 5 very simple...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/04/2007
Patterns for Supporting Information Cards ON Web Sites
For someone who has had to sign onto 3 community sites today, each without any SSL support, each...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/30/2007
VISUAL STUDIO BRANCHING GUIDANCE
What is the right branching strategy for a particular software project? When should I use a label...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/30/2007
An easier way to get BETA3 of Longhorn Server
David Lowe just pointed out to me that the best way for customers and partners to get Windows Server...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/27/2007