Strategy and Architecture Council
Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism - U.S. West Region
Windows Azure – Business Model and more…
Today, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, we announced the business and partner model...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/16/2009
Azure Commercial Availability Confirmed, Business Model Announced and More..
Yesterday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, we announced the business and partner...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/16/2009
Office Web Applications as Native Browser Apps in Microsoft Office 2010
A couple of announcements at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC09) have been making a...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/14/2009
Silverlight and Photosynth at Stargate Universe
MGM and Microsoft partnered to build an application intended to give old and new fans of Stargate a...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/13/2009
Silverlight and Live Messenger at Photobucket
Photobucket has collaborated with Microsoft to build Photobucket Visual Search...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/13/2009
Embedded Database Engine for Silverlight Applications
So far, rich Internet applications (RIA) don’t have to be concerned with data management on the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/13/2009
Silverlight 3 Released!
Silverlight 3 is officially released into production today! Silverlight has come a long way in the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/10/2009
Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch
Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 will be unveiled at a virtual launch event on July 10,...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
How Can I Get a Job Like That!
Most people with ANY job today are happy and I would certainly include myself in that category....
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
Photobucket Visual Search Launches!
One of the reasons why I love being an evangelist is figuring out how we get great projects done on...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
MGM Studios – Silverlight enables fans to explore the Stargate Universe and generates incremental Ad revenue for the Studio
Stargate.MGM.com is the official site for the Stargate TV and Movie franchise. The Stargate...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
Linerider.com – physics-engine powered game on Silverlight and Windows Live Services
InXile Entertainment has collaborated with Microsoft to build a new version of the Line Rider game,...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
Over 30 Million Pages a day on ASP.NET, Windows, and SQL – Break.com
As a popular entertainment site with an advertising-based revenue model, Break.com must support high...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
Kelley Blue Book embraces Software plus Services
Kelley Blue Book leveraged .NET 3.5 SP1 to cut the head off their .NET Web Solution. They now...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
Silverlight 2 DeepZoom Technical Preview by Newegg.com
Newegg built a DeepZoom catalog built on Silverlight 2. A power search function was added, so...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/09/2009
Silverlight and Bing Maps Used at Grubb & Ellis
Today is a time in history where there are more economic factors disrupting the real estate market...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/07/2009
The Business Value of Cloud Computing
I have written about cloud computing and specifically Azure Services Platform several times in the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 07/02/2009
Ancestry.com Uses Silverlight for Genealogy Browser
The Generations Network runs one of the most popular genealogy websites in the world –...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/24/2009
Archstone Apartments Leverages WPF and Live Maps for Kiosks
One of the customers that I have worked with for quite some time is Archstone. They are a top...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/24/2009
Seattle Startups Cootendy and Overcast Media Adopt Silverlight
Two Seattle startups, Cootendy's WareDinner and Overcast Media, have adopted Silverlight. Read more...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/19/2009
Web Activities in Windows Live
One of the brand new features in the new release of Windows Live is the ability to aggregate data...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/17/2009
Digg Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8
I have blogged a bit about Internet Explorer 8 (previous posts are here) and some of the really cool...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/17/2009
MSDN Summer Bytes
After I finished off my TechEd Interview with Scott Hanselman in May, I had to take him over for an...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/12/2009
Pragmatic Patterns for Architects content is now available
A few members of my team just completed a series of online webcasts this week which went very well....
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/12/2009
Architect Council | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects - WrapUp
We have just completed this webcast series of Architect Council events. Thanks to everyone who...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/12/2009
BizTalk 2009 is coming
A “First Look” at BizTalk Server 2009! – June 23, 2009 Enterprises across the world need to build...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/12/2009
PING Uses Visualization Technologies to Help Golfers
Almost everyone in the golf world is familiar with Karsten Solheim, the founder of PING Golf. ...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 06/12/2009
John L. Scott Real Estate Enables Online Social Networking with Live Services and Silverlight
John L. Scott Real Estate (JLS) is delivering a unique social networking solution, called...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/29/2009
ebaY sidebar for Internet Explorer 8
eBay has just launched a new sidebar offering in beta. I have been collaborating with eBay on this...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/27/2009
Architect Council | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
“Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/26/2009
Video Interviews at TechEd North America
Two weeks ago I attended TechEd in Los Angeles. During the conference I had the chance to catch up...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/26/2009
Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
EVENT OVERVIEW “Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”,...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/26/2009
Architect Council (Webcasts): Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
“Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/23/2009
Esurance Delivers Key Services to Mobile Channel via Microsoft Platform
Esurance, the direct-to-consumer auto insurance company, has been offering policies online since...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/20/2009
Scott Guthrie Returns to Phoenix!
For anyone who doesn’t know, Scott Guthrie is the force at Microsoft responsible for all things...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/20/2009
BizSpark Phoenix – Legal Issues for Startups
On May 13, 2009 Garland Brown, an attorney with Greenberg, Traurig, LLP presented a well-rounded...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/20/2009
Roadmap for Major Technology Announced at TechEd
Thanks to Network World for their article, Microsoft’s software pipeline set to burst. The product...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/20/2009
Yahoo! optimized IE8 Web Slice
If you are a Yahoo! Mail user and your currently using IE8 you will love the feature called the Mail...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/15/2009
MyProcess Prefers Silverlight over Flash for their SnapFlow Tool
As far back as 2001 Samad Wahedi began to notice the gradual migration of work to the Web. He saw...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/15/2009
Microsoft .NET Services Whitepapers Released
Microsoft .NET Services whitepapers are now available from the Microsoft download centers. Read the...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/15/2009
SnapFlow Prefers Silverlight over Flash for their Workflow Tool
As far back as 2001 Samad Wahedi began to notice the gradual migration of work to the Web. He saw...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/13/2009
BizSpark hits 12,000!
Yesterday, marked 6 months since the launch of this fantastic program and with it came a great...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/08/2009
new CloudApp() – The Azure Challenge
new CloudApp(), a US based developer challenge, was launched today. Its focus is to promote...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/08/2009
John L Scott Real Estate Looks to WPF and Software + Services
Microsoft uses the term "Software+Services" to describe a vision of computing that...
Author: dpeuswr Date: 05/08/2009