September 2009 - Posts

Announcing Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.5: better UI, faster development, richer experience for non-Messenger users by Live Services

We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announce the availability of the Messenger Web Toolkit v3...

Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services by Windows Azure

Yesterday Microsoft, Zend and others launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features...

Update on the Next Microsoft .NET Services CTP by Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team Blog

It’s been a while since our last update on this blog, hopefully everyone enjoyed a warm, sunny summer break while we continued the march toward the commercial release of Microsoft .NET Services. For those that are new to the conversation .NET Services...

Upgrading Your Service in Windows Azure by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Windows Azure has been in CTP since PDC 08 in October of last year.  Since that time, we have had a fairly simple, yet powerful concept for how to upgrade your application.  Essentially, we have two environments: staging and production.  ...

Short blip in service availability today by SQL Azure Team Blog

We experienced a short blip in the availability of SQL Azure today and I wanted to post a quick note to let you know what happened. Inside of SQL Azure we have these automated monitoring tools called watchdogs. These watchdogs monitor every aspect of...

Introducing a New Upgrade Option: In-Place by Windows Azure

Today we are introducing a new upgrade mechanism, called “in-place upgrade,” which enables you to incrementally roll a new version of your service over the existing version without first deploying the new version to staging. With this new mechanism, you...

Introducing the Windows Azure Service Management API by Windows Azure

Today, we are releasing a preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API to help you manage your deployments, hosted services and storage accounts. This is a REST-based API which users can code against in their toolset of choice to manage their services...

Congrats to Dennis Palmer, Winner of the Twilio + Windows Azure Developer Contest! by Windows Azure

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Hats off to Dennis Palmer, who won a Netbook for winning last week’s Twilio + Windows Azure Developer Contest for his Cloud Call Me application for Facebook! Cloud Call Me allows Facebook users to call friends...

Federal Government Embraces Cloud Computing; Outlines Long-term Cloud Computing Strategy by Windows Azure

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false In a press event on Tuesday at NASA Ames Research Center in California, Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra unveiled apps.gov, an online storefront for federal agencies to browse and purchase...

An example of trusted subsystem fail in meatspace by Vibro.NET

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Engineering the Windows Live / MySpace integration and Leveraging Activity Streams by Live Services

My name is Rob Dolin , I work as an engineer on the Windows Live Social team and I’m honored to have the opportunity to guest blog here at http://dev.live.com/ about one of our latest (and IMHO most exciting) features, our integration with one of the...

Get Started with Windows Azure TODAY! by Windows Azure

Want to try out Azure services but don’t want to wait for the invitation code? No problem, we’ve made it easier – and faster - to get the token so you can start using the Windows Azure Community Technology Preview right away. Register at: http://www.microsoft...

Steve Marx To Talk about Cloud Computing at XIX GeneXus International Meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay Monday, 9/14/09 by Windows Azure

Senior Strategist for Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Technical Expert Steve Marx will give a presentation, “Deploying to the Cloud”, next Monday, September 14, 2009 at the XIX GeneXus International Meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay. For more information...

Exploring the Service Provider track – Fabrikam Shipping Part II (Solution) by Eugenio Pace

Now that we presented the scenario & the requirements , let’s take a look at the solution. What is conceptual solution we propose? Fabrikam Shipping in the pre-Claims era: This diagram shows Fabrikam Shipping today if used by Adatum (no claims, no...

What do you want to see @ SXSW - vote it up! by Live Services

Angus Logan here from the Live Services team, and I am starting to get pretty excited about the SXSW Conference coming up in March 2010. One of the great things about the conference is that you get to decide what you want to see there. It is up to the...
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