On April 1 Microsoft released what it dubbed the “M5” (Milestone 5) CTP (Community Technology Preview) beta of .Net Services. .Net Services are a set of Microsoft-hosted developer tools for creating cloud-based and/or cloud-aware applications. Read more
During the holiday season, Microsoft Subnet hooked up with John “JG” Chirapurath, director of marketing for the Identity & Security (I&S) unit at Microsoft, to pick his brain about some of the many new security and identity management tools coming out of Redmond. Read more
Virtualization is as critical a technology for Microsoft as its operating systems. But an awful lot of fiction circulates about virtualization and Microsoft's role in the market, including Microsoft's true market share, its enmity with Red Hat, and the costs of virtualizing desktops. Read more
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It is Jason Hermitage's job to convince enterprise IT folks that Windows Server 2008 is an eye-popping operating system and that they should start planning their migrations now. But what are the features that Hermitage, director of Windows Server Marketing, uses to win over IT folks opinion? Read more
In our ongoing "10 questions for" series, Microsoft Subnet talked with 2001 Computer Industry Hall of Fame inductee Mort Rosenthal. Rosenthal is the CEO of a young company named Enterprise Mobile, which has the mission of bringing Windows Mobility to every enterprise. Read more
Welcome to a new regular feature of this blog … "10 questions for … " where we talk to interesting people in the Microsoft world through a series of 10 questions (more or less, but who's counting?) Think of this as a cross between James Lipton (Actor's Studio) and Robert Scoble (Scobleizer). For the inaugural entry in the series, Microsoft Subnet interviewed two of the people responsible for Microsoft's presence in Second Life and other virtual worlds. (See photos.) This interview was conducted as a live chat in Windows Live Messenger. The following is a two-page edited transcript of the conversation.
Microsoft Subnet: 1) What is it that each of you do for your day jobs?
Zain: I'm a developer evangelist for Microsoft in the South Central District. That means I reach out to the community and engage them any way I see fit to help them use our technologies to great effect.
Microsoft Subnet: 2) All Microsoft technologies or do you focus on specific ones? Read more
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