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2013 6
- Build 2013: Visual Studio 2013 Preview Available Now
- How do you build a Windows Store LOB app?
- Join the Windows 8 App Race: Win Visual Studio headphones and Asus tablets
- Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service General Availability
- [MOOC] Start building apps on Windows 8
- Belgian Windows 8 Superhackathon on 27 March 2013 – join us!
2012 13
- Microsoft TechDays 2013 (Belgium): First sessions & speakers announced!
- Windows App Day November 23rd – Cook up the next great app
- Cloudify your Windows 8 and iOS apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services
- WOWZAPP: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows in Brussels (November 10)
- October 8: Windows 8 Apps Expert Class
- From XNA Game to Windows 8 App in 1 day. Join us on September 11 at Howest!
- This is why these 3 young Belgians need your Imagine Cup Vote!!!
- New Windows Azure Features and Services for spring
- TechDays 2012: session recordings, slides and content online
- SQL Azure Pricing Dropped
- Bring your idea to life- turn it into an app
- Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012
- PhoneGap now fully supports Windows Phone
2011 62
- Azure Spotlight: Numeri’zik Robot Stream Goes Cloudy
- TechDays 2012 Developer Content and Deep Dive Updates
- TechDays 2012: 80% of agenda online and 1 more week to benefit from 15% discount
- New Windows Azure Site and Features Available Today
- Early Bird Pricing for TechDays 2012 Extended to December 20. Register now!
- Devoteam: Interoperability and Openness in the cloud - Serving Java in Azure
- Updated Windows Azure SDK & Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK Available Today!
- Available : Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October 2011 Update
- Register now for TechDays 2012 and benefit from 15% Early Bird discount
- Save the Date: TechDays Belgium returns on 14-15-16 February 2012!
- New Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Microsoft Patterns & Practices: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control - 2nd Edition
- On the road to BUILD – A day of California dreaming
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7, iOS (iPhone & iPad) and Android.
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RC is available now and provides a ‘Go Live’ license that enables you to publish applications to the Windows Phone Marketplace.
- Dive into the Summer with Architects : Windows Azure Platform Interoperability
- HTML5 and IE workshop by the water at Microsoft Webcafe, August 25th in Brussels
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1 “Beta 2 Refresh” Released
- First networking event @ the Brussels’s Microsoft Innovation Center
- Looking for Platform Strategy Advisor – Windows Azure Platform
- Last call to our free Next Generation UX event. Your chance to win an Arc Touch Mouse!
- BUILD: Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined!
- Kinect Toolkit Launches Today: lets get moving
- Innov@MIC–”The” Innovation day @ The Microsoft Innovation Center–June 23
- Register for the Next Generation User Experiences event on June 28
- Windows Phone 7 “Mango”: download the developer tools
- Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android, and WP7
- MSDN Belux webcasts on SQL Server self-service BI, FAST Search Server 2010 and Windows Azure
- Are you Microsoft Platform Ready?
- Save the date for the ISV Discovery Day Spring Edition
- Scott Hanselman LIVE at TechDays 2011 in Belgium
- Windows Azure News from MIX11
- TechDays 2011 WP7 App
- New MVPs for Belgium & Lux announced
- Get skilled up on Microsoft’s Cloud technologies at you own pace and at no cost with Microsoft Virtual Academy
- TechDays Belgium 2011: Just 3 Weeks Left to Register
- Webcast: Lunchbox - Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application at Microsoft leveraging Windows Azure
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
- MSDN and TechNet Desktop Gadget
- Microsoft opens European Cloud and Interoperability Center & second Microsoft Innovation Center in Brussels
- TechDays 2011 - Check out the sessions and build your own agenda
- Internet Explorer 9 RTW available for download
- Download Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
- Tell your IT story and win a ticket for TechDays 2011
- Java Developers Experience improved with Windows Azure
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - February 2011 Update
- Vote Microsoft for DataNews Awards for Excellence
- HTML5 Web Camp Belgium on April 6 2011 – free event registration now open
- New Windows Azure Free Trial Offering Available Today!
- TechDays 2011: Final Chance to Register with Early Bird Pricing!
- IT in your DNA? ‘Crack the code’ winners announced, share your IT story and win tickets for TechDays 2011
- Internet Explorer 9 RC–download and get your sites ready
- Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update Available Now
- MSDN webcasts in March on TFS 2010 and Windows Phone 7
- ISV Community & Discovery Day
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and Course, January 2011 Update
- Register for Microsoft Webcafe on February 17th in Gent
- TechDays 2011: Early Bird Pricing Extended Until 28 February 2011
- Announcing Windows Azure Jump Start Training Videos
- What to expect in 2011 when it comes to Enterprise Architecture
- ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix released
- Register for the next MSDN Live Meetings in January and February
2010 173
- Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and the new Windows Azure Management Portal Now Available
- The Future of Silverlight Starts Now: Watch Scott Guthrie Showing The Next Version of Silverlight on December 2, 2010
- Cloud or On-Premise: Which is more secure?
- The Role of the Software Architect in Applications and Systems Development
- Architects Are Number 1!
- Using the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse with PHP
- Belgian SQL Server Day 2010
- Nick Malik: Enterprise Strategic Architecture in Product Development
- Burton Group: Managing Network Performance of Cloud-Based Applications
- Facebook - More Details on Today's Outage
- Burton Group: The Business Value of ITIL
- Nielsen: Bing Passes Yahoo To Become #2 Search Engine
- ARCast.TV - Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010
- Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the whole PC: IE9 Beta Available for Download
- New AppFabric Architecture Guide Available
- Giz Explains: Why Everything Wireless is 2.4GHz
- ARCast.TV - David Aiken on Azure Architecture Patterns
- Redefining The ‘Now’
- John Zachman is Dead, Long Live John Zachman
- Are routerless datacenters in Microsoft's future?
- Seven Principles for Selecting Software Packages
- Introductory Special to the Windows Azure Platform
- A brief report on working smarter with Agile software development
- For the Class of 2014, No E-Mail or Wristwatches
- ARCast.TV - David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation
- Juval is visiting VISUG once again on Thursday, October 14, 2010
- Summer Campaign: Explore and dive into the Windows Azure Platform Interoperability Journey
- Relationship Management at the Operational Level in Outsourcing
- The Web is Dead, Long live the Internet
- McKinsey: Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch
- Intelligent Enterprise Architecture
- Patent Issued for IT Simplification to Roger Sessions
- IT Portfolio Management Prioritization and Execution Planning
- Summer Campaign: Take an Architecture diving flight with the Microsoft Cloud Patterns and Practices
- A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part one
- ARCast.TV - SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud
- Save the RFP! Why tossing the RFP is the worst thing you can do
- Team Software Process (TSP) Body of Knowledge (BOK)
- ExecutiveBrief Software Development Trends Survey Indicates Promising Business Environment for 2010
- HTML5’s a Game-Changer for Web Apps
- 16 Enterprise Architecture Strategies Learned The Hard Way
- Where do you draw the lines between business and IT ownership of data and information?
- The 50 smartest people in tech
- Architectural Governance by Principles
- The Role of the Developer in the New Network
- The over-reaction architecture governance anti-pattern
- McKinsey: Enduring Ideas: The strategic control map
- Summer Campaign: Take an Architecture diving flight with the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform
- What are the Benefits of Virtual Private Cloud Computing Hosting?
- Windows Azure Platform Appliance
- Realizing the Promise of Cloud Computing with Microsoft
- NetworkWorld: Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks
- Facebook Server Count: 60,000 or More
- AG Magazine: ArchiMate: Adding Value to TOGAF
- Forrester Blog: Does Your CEO Care About Green IT? Not If You’re Stuck In The Data Center
- Summer Campaign: Take an Architecture diving flight with the Microsoft Cloud Continuum
- Burton Group: Changeover to IPv6: The Deadline Approaches
- CEB: Emerging Technology Roadmap through 2013
- Delivering new features for SQL Azure Today
- Infosec Island: Choosing Your OS is NOT a Security Control
- Government Taps the Power of Cloud Computing
- ARCast.TV - UI of the new era, designing for multiple devices
- A Microsoft Windows Azure primer: the basics
- Cutter blog: Three Things We Should Expect of Rugged Software
- A Handbook for Effective IT Strategic Planning: Embedding Context and Creativity in Strategy Development
- Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated for Silverlight 4
- ARCast.TV - A.D.A.M migrates from Google Cloud to Windows Azure
- Computerworld: Certifications are no longer optional
- Microsoft: We'll be running 85 to 90 percent of our apps in the cloud this decade
- Microsoft passes the 10,000 customer milestone with Windows Azure
- Windows Azure Platform Announcements at TechEd North America
- 20 km of Brussels running into the cloud
- ARCast.TV - Selling Pizza in the Cloud: Domino's and Windows Azure
- InfoWorld: Inside the mind of an enterprise architect
- Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released
- Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges
- SOAWorld: Why is Enterprise Architecture Dying?
- End-To-End Performance Study of Cloud Services
- Paul Glen: Think politics aren't part of your job? Think again
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery at ServiceU: A SQL Server 2008 Technical Case Study
- New ways we're fighting spam in Hotmail
- ARCast.TV - SOASTA uses Windows Azure to offer CloudTest Solutions
- CIO.COM: The Path to the CIO
- Do Architects Need to Code?
- PC World: Microsoft Spindex Puts New Spin on Social Networking
- Gartner: Private Cloud Computing Plans From Conference Polls
- ARCast.TV - Accenture: Enabling the Mobile Workforce with Windows Azure
- Forrester: Building Capability Maps For Business-IT Alignment
- Discontinuing the Microsoft Infrastructure and Solutions Architect Certification
- Architect Forum: Year of the Cloud, We are all in!
- AzureScope: Benchmarking and Guidance for Windows Azure
- Dynamic Scaling Windows Azure
- Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh for Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 RTM
- Enterprise Library 5.0 Released
- endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric - Configuring Monitoring Data
- ARCast.TV - High Value Asset Tracking with Bing Maps, Silverlight and Windows 7
- SEInsight: A (Re)Introduction to Patterns
- endpoint.tv - Developing Web Services with IIS/AppFabric
- endpoint.tv - AppFabric Dashboard Overview
- it’s learning Adopts Microsoft Platform for Cloud Educational Services
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM
- Private Clouds with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- New Silverlight 4 Training Kit Available
- Microsoft Connects Office To Facebook
- From Paper to the Cloud - Epson's Cloud App for Printer, Scanner and Windows Azure
- ARCast.TV - Using jQuery to Improve User Experience in Web Applications
- Cell Phones are for more then just making calls…
- How Not to Build a Cloud
- Cutter Consortium: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!
- Tech Days 2010 Sessions Available Online
- McKinsey: The Internet of Things
- Managing Compliance in the Cloud
- Deep Dive AppFabric Training
- ARCast.TV - Tool Assisted VB6 to .NET Migration
- ARCast.TV - Improving SharePoint Development with WCF Services
- New Architect Journal Released
- Availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4
- ARCast.TV - Behind the Cloud::How Microsoft Deploys Azure
- The Next Web Now – Information that matters from MIX 2010
- IDC Sees Cloud Market Maturing Quickly
- Cloud Cover Episode 5 - MIX Edition
- Cloud Cover Episode 4 - CDN
- Architecting Solutions with Microsoft Azure AppFabric
- ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Now Available
- ARCast.TV - IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement
- The Windows Azure platform AppFabric LABS Environment
- ARCast.TV - How Chyron Uses Silverlight for TV Graphics
- Cloud Cover Episode 3 - Worker Role Endpoints
- Patterns & Practices: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control
- Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group
- Microsoft on Cloud Computing: We are all in.
- Keeping the Messenger Service Running—On a Massive Scale
- endpoint.tv - Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2
- ARCast.TV - Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Architects!
- The Forecast for Cloud Computing
- Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2
- Cloud Cover: Episode 2
- ARCast.TV - Scalable Tax Solutions With CCH and Windows Azure
- RedMonk: Who’s Winning the Cloud Marketing Battle?
- Down To Business: The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors
- Microsoft Patterns & Practices Highlights and Roadmap
- ARCast.TV - Silverlight Powers State-of-the-Art Healthcare Claims Processing Tools
- Cloud Cover: Episode 1
- New Web Application Toolkits!
- 10-4 Episode 41: Downloading and Installing the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
- Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets
- Leveraging Azure with Non-Microsoft Technologies featuring Josh Holmes
- Gartner: Microsoft AppFabric: A Platform for the Cloud Era Is Under Construction
- ARCast.TV - Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates
- The Radicati Group: On-Premises Email and Collaboration Market, 2009-2013
- Everything you wanted to know about Windows Azure Billing but were afraid to ask
- Windows Azure Storage Browser
- Scientists Offered Free Access to Azure Cloud
- Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises
- Designing Services for Windows Azure
- How Do I: Run Java Applications in Windows Azure?
- Windows Azure Commercially Available along with new SDK
- Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive
- Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7
- Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects
- The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010
- The Open Group: ArchiMate® 1.0 Specification
- ARCast.TV - Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 2010 and Beyond
- A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail
- Harvard Business Review: The Disruptors of the Decade
- TechDays 2010 Preconference: BI with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Office System 2010
- New Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
- ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too
- ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 1 of 3
- A Structured Approach for Reviewing Architecture Documentation
- Commercial Availability of Windows Azure Platform
- ARCast.TV - Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator
2009 102
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Refreshed
- ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks
- Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2009 Update)
- ARCast.TV - Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns
- Architect Forum Online:
- Architects come and architects go. Thanks Philippe!!!
- CIO: Put Business Technology Maturity In 2010 Plan
- A live, mission critical, Silverlight 3 RIA at launch
- Survey Finds BPM Projects Lack Architecture
- Windows Azure Official Pricings
- Hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA
- Study Paris to improve your IT architecture
- The architect profession according to Forrester
- Bing vs. Google: do the test
- 7 July release of the new .NET Services CTP
- P&P : Acceptance Test Engineering Guide
- Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell
- Forrester: Virtual Infrastructure Architect
- TechDays videos are here
- Power Utilization of Native and Virtual Exchange
- 4 New "How Do I" Video Series on Windows Azure
- Your chance to look into the future: 10 years away
- Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK released
- BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 released to web
- Easily debug & compare your site in IE6, IE7 and IE8
- Social Media: unlocking behavioral disorders
- Craig Morris on Mobile Application Architectures
- VTM goes Surface for election result visualization
- Become rich and famous NOW through Azure !!!
- Microsoft "Oslo" - May 2009 CTP is here
- IIS SEO Toolkit Beta Now Available
- Convergence of devices and the new generation…
- Securing Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure
- Bing.com Helps People Make Better Decisions
- The Role of the Architect in Turbulent Times
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 shipped
- Architecting Interface to Improve Testability
- Microsoft Online Services Adopts Telco Standards
- New York Times Silverlight Kit
- Here is a series of new (developer) whitepapers on .Net Services
- Microsoft vision on Public and Private Cloud Computing
- Clouds over the Ivory Tower
- Windows Azure Geo-Location Goes Live
- Microsoft Boosts SOA with BizTalk Server 2009 Release
- Brian Noyes on Selecting the Correct Client Technology
- The Architect Journal Issue 19 is here!!
- Interoperability for Virtualisation Event: Novell, Microsoft, Erudict
- MS Belgium TechNet Event: How to Go From Data to Decisions
- Harvard Business: Why IT Solutions Are Never Simple
- Invitation Microsoft Belux Architect Forum on Security & Identity
- CIO.com: The Next Big ERP Innovator: Microsoft
- Announcing Silverlight 3
- Announcing Microsoft Web Platform
- Windows Azure Tools and Upgrades
- Twitter was live in 1935 in London…
- Internet Explorer 8 was just released to the web
- NASA: The Good News About COTS
- ZDNet: SOA delivering; SOAP out, REST in
- Microsoft partners with Cisco on new Unified Computing System
- Deep Zoom Mardi Gras
- Is Cloud Computing Really Risk Transference?
- Forrester: Architect's Contribution to Packaged Apps Selection
- Great insights from McKinsey about IT cost cutting vs. investments
- Interesting implementation of “contract first” development model
- New features into the Office Live Workspace service
- The real motivation for young startups and entrepreneurs...
- Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies
- O’Reilly: Managing monopolies and dominance in the Net age
- Agile Journal: Requirements Come Second
- MS Leader in 3 Gartner Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants
- McKinsey Quarterly: Six ways to make Web 2.0 work in Enterprise
- Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0
- Gartner: Key Issues for Software as a Service, 2009
- Want to help and earn $250.000?
- Silverlight for Linux released
- Comprehensive set of videos on the entire Azure Services Platform
- Announcing RadEditor for Silverlight CTP
- What does it take to turn an ASP.NET app into an Azure app?
- Silicon Alley Insider: Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction?
- Azure Services Training Kit – February Update Just Released
- Automatically discovers those candidates for server consolidation!
- The Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program
- ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available
- StatShot: Tech Job Cuts Inching Closer to 200,000
- Can Cloud Computing Handle Compliance? And what about Cloud Interoperability?
- Microsoft Surface used in Super Bowl Security
- Branding logos after the crisis
- Location aware WPF Virtual Earth Application
- Microsoft Innovation Center Belgium opens March 4th
- Windows Azure Updated SDK & Tools for Visual Studio Available
- Windows 7 Beta anti-virus
- SOA: Dead, or In a Coma?
- Microsoft Belux Solution Architect Forum at TechDays 2009 (March)
- Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
- SOA is Dead; Long Live Services
- 2008 was the year of the Rat, 2009 the year of the Architect?
- Birth of the Microsoft Belux Infrastructure Architect Forum
- Birth of a brand-new architect paradigm shift: cloud computing
- Upcoming Microsoft Belux Architect Events
- Microsoft Leader in 3 Gartner Application Infrastructure Quadrants
- Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight
- WCF with regards to Cloud Computing and Azure
2008 180
- Usability in Practice: The Human Face Of Software
- Microsoft Partnership with RSA for Information Protection
- and…3 simple steps to become an architect…
- 5 simple steps to get going with Windows Azure development
- Sharepoint interoperates with external portal platforms via WSRP
- Microsoft patterns & practices releases “Unity for Silverlight”
- Microsoft Belux Architect Forum on Windows Azure Cloud Platform
- Free MS software for students and startups
- 2 great architect interviews on ARCast.TV
- Application Architecture Pocket Guides
- Nicolas Carr about Azure & Competing cloud platforms
- Impressive Silverlight Showcase Launched: ReportStorms.com
- The end of an era - Windows 3.x
- Exchange and SharePoint Online RTM in US for business of all sizes
- Microsoft new consumer security offering
- ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, WinForms: when to use what?
- The Application Architecture Guidance 2.0 Project
- WCF REST Starter Kit
- Gartner on SOA projects: .NET increasing rapidly, Java declining even more rapidly
- SharePoint Guidance from patterns & practices
- Discount on SharePoint/OBA books
- Visual Studio 2010 CTP Adds Parallel Computing Tools
- Microsoft claims based Identity and Access platform
- Building Multi-Enterprise Business Apps on the Azure Platform
- Acceptance Test Engineering Guide by p&p
- Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices
- OSLO: when to Model becomes the application
- Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform: white papers
- Office Comes to Your Browser
- patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta released
- Queuing at the speed of light using open queuing protocol
- Windows in the cloud in there!
- BPM on the Microsoft Platform: BPM for the masses!
- WCF REST Starter Kit goes live October 27
- Small Basic is released - a small and easy to learn development language, based on .NET Framework
- CIO in financial crisis: rethink leadership and management
- Big Day for Amazon EC2
- Forrester: Architecting In The Zone
- 60% of all business calls end in a Voicemail system
- Things To Consider When Firing Your Provider
- First CloudCamp on the continent on 30/10 in Brussels
- Architecture Journal - Issue 17 – Distributed Computing
- Silverlight 2 ships!
- Microsoft now the leader in Enterprise search (Gartner)
- .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” Application Server
- The business analyst vs. the enterprise architect
- Independent study: investment in .NET growing faster than in Java
- Microsoft and Cray unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
- Pattern & Practices: draft guidelines online
- BizTalk Server 2009 on track
- Microsoft joins OMG
- Security flaws: may not be inherent to Microsoft products...
- Goldman Sachs: Cloud computing last item on priority list CxO?
- Burton Group: Open Source Software - Risks and Rewards
- Burton Group: SharePoint Identity Management and Access
- The next Microsoft Belux Architect Forum is here: RIA with SL2.0
- Enterprise Architects finally value Infrastructure Architects
- Businesslink: Pricing your product or service
- Heros will always ruin your it organization
- Architect Journal 16: IDENTITY AND ACCESS
- International SharePoint Professionals Association sees the light.
- Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 released!
- Forrester: The Mobile Architecture Imperative
- Positioning of architectural frameworks
- Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (CTP)
- The Emerging Technology Trends according to Forrester
- PC penetration per household in EU
- Gartner hype cycle for mobile platforms
- SaaS Maturity Model according to Forrester
- Is your enterprise ready for the Digital Natives?
- Architects need to ask the right questions: Strategic Questioning
- Infrastructure Architects: who are they, what is their goal in life?
- Microsoft is evil. Apple, Google, Linux are the good guys. Right?
- Stairway to haven and/or hell
- Web3D - The Next Major Internet Wave?
- MS developer framework for building claims-based applications
- Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide
- Domain Driven Design Quickly
- Release of Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 CTP1.
- Patterns & Practices: Composite Application Guidance for WPF
- 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless
- Secure your SOA with the patterns & practices WCF Security Guide
- Real-life Dilbert manager quotes
- UI2: centralized control, while providing end-user configurability?
- Interop: from Java/RMI over SOAP to WS-* demo on Open Source !!
- UI extreme makeover = UI2
- HYPER-V IS HERE!!
- Architects of all shapes, colours and sizes: unite!!
- When Open Source SOA meets Microsoft SOA
- Breaking the Mystique of Coaching in IT
- Inside Microsoft's $550 Million Mega Data Centers
- Making the difference – the 2008 CIO Agenda
- Forrester: A Pragmatic Approach To Software Reuse
- 24 Hours SQL Server
- CMMI - An Executive Summary
- Gartner IT Infrastructure and Operations Maturity Model
- European Championship soccer 2008 streamed live with Silverlight
- Enterprise Guide to the Strategic Mobile Knowledge Worker
- SOA Governance for Microsoft .NET Framework
- Announcing SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate
- The BallmerBot: Developers, Developers, Developers!
- UML supported in Oslo SOA modeler
- SaaS Penetrates the IT Department
- What It Takes to Be a Great Enterprise Architect
- Harvard Business positioning SOA in Business Terms
- The Resource-Oriented Architecture
- Architecture by public community discussions?
- Process-Views-Services – a Better Design Paradigm for Applications
- WebDSL - a Case Study in Domain-Specific Language Engineering
- Models for Evaluating and Improving Architecture Competence
- Microsoft and interop? Microsoft Office 2007 will support ODF!
- Bredemeyer: The Visual Architecting Process
- .NET a first class participant on TIBCO backed infrastructures.
- Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 released
- Unskilled and unable to realize it...
- Microsoft platform in Gartner's leader quadrant
- Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta is available
- HP acquired EDS
- IT sabotage: identify common patterns
- Social Computing Changes The Enterprise Collaboration Landscape
- MS Belux Architect Forum April 15 2008
- S+S Sample App Litware HR - May 2008 Released
- Web 2.0 developers rank MSN/Live higher than Google, Yahoo and Facebook
- McKinsey: Enterprise Software Customer Survey 2008
- Enterprise Mashup Tool (AKA Popfly for the Enterprise)
- Emerging Platform Wars in Enterprise SaaS
- Directory Tiers, Instances and Roles
- Gartner Hype Cycle for High-Performance Workplace
- IT Architecture Capability Maturity Model
- Introducing "Live Mesh" technology preview
- Architects: who are they, what are they doing and why?
- BizTalk Server 2006 R3
- .NET 3.5 based enterprise application architecture blueprint
- Model driven testing in Product Family Context
- Reference Architecture Principles
- Belux ISV's: here is an event you don't want to miss!
- WorldWide Telescope
- Comparing Megavendors IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP in SaaS
- SOA/BPM: death of applications and AD as we know them
- CIO's, what is it they spend their time on?
- Microsoft end-to-end trust security system
- Applying agile practices in still-waterfall processes
- Justifying Emerging Technologies to Business Leaders
- How Effective and Known Are Process Frameworks?
- Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility...
- Unity Application Block Released!
- What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
- Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008
- Forrester Cloud Computing Study Released
- Semantic Business Services Specifications Support Business Agility
- Designer + Developer = Dev-igner: launching our local newsletter
- Gartner report on BI: Microsoft BI in magical quadrant
- Steve Ballmer about web developers at the MIX conference
- Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
- Web Service Software Factory: new release!
- Web Client Software Factory 2.0 released!
- Live Platform Services taking shape!
- Microsoft Belux Architect Forum, April 15, Enterprise SOA/BPM
- The Next Step in Openness and Interoperability
- SQL Server 2008 feature complete!
- DreamSpark: free developer & designer software for students
- Financial Services OBA Component Library
- OBA Reference Architecture: LOAN Origination
- S+S Architecture Site on MSDN
- "FedEx QuickShip" shows Office as a platform (OBA)
- The BizTalk® Adapter Pack for the masses
- Guidance Automation Toolkit: new release!
- Build and Deploy OBA's with OBA Composition Reference Toolkit
- Just because it’s SaaS doesn’t make it good...
- Gartner positions MS as a leader in Business Intelligence
- Gartner moves MS up on SOA Governance
- Metadata for an Enterprise SOA
- Architect rule also at Belux TechDays 2008
- Silverlight available for WSUS & Windows update.
- S+S: the new architectural paradigm
- WPF and Silverlight are shaking up MS components Ecosystem
- HR and IT: brothers in arms?
- VBA will continue to be supported in next generation office
- Document Standards : MS Open Office XML versus ODF
- Is Java becoming the new Cobol?
2007 64
- MS simplifies data-centric development in heterogeneous environments
- Declarative multi-tier web applications with Volta tech preview
- SOA and BPM: you can't have the one without the other?
- Silverlight 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions
- Architecture Journal WPF based reader (Beta)
- Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition
- Microsoft Belux Architect Forum December 20
- Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
- The Architect Journal 13 is out - featuring the Internet Service Bus
- SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP
- MS released CTP for Sync Framework for Offline scenarios
- Enterprise Service Bus now included in MS Application Platform
- ISVs are from Mars, Hosters are from Venus
- Your confidential enterprise data in the cloud?
- The iPhone SDK: A Great S+S Proof Point
- Security experts: time to look for greener exploit pastures than Microsoft
- Microsoft SOA/BPM Roadmap leads to Oslo
- Master Data Management
- Positioning Silverlight, WPF, AJAX.NET, Windows Forms, Expression Suite...
- RIA battlefield: and the winner will be....?
- Microsoft and SOA Software Announce Integrated SOA Governance for BizTalk
- The end of the desktop is near?
- Microsoft and Sun Expand Strategic Alliance
- Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced
- OBA Application Patterns
- About human appendixes and ESBs...
- Announcing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
- Observations on SaaS and S+S (Software+Services)
- Windows server gaining market share
- Microsoft's effort around interoperability
- SOA nirvana not yet reached by most enterprises
- Microsoft launches "Tafiti": rich search experience via Silverlight
- VS2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and Silverlight 1.0 RC1 released 27 July 2008
- OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 now available on MSDN
- BizTalk extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation first CTP
- OBA Central: community site for customers and partners
- Forrester Publishes Application Server Platforms Report, Q3 2007
- Software + Services: strategy, business model, case studies
- Biztalk enhanced support for SOA, ESB, BPM, WF
- Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: S+S and OBA applied
- Microsoft's "Cloud OS" takes shape: enter "Software + Services"
- OBA detailled design: expose BDC entities as web services and consume on Office client
- Microsoft launches OBA partner program
- Architecture needs to be "actionable"
- Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will launch together on Feb 27
- ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP now available
- ITIL moving towards Enterprise Architecture
- Aspiring Architects
- Momentum builds up around OBA
- OBA RAP for E-Forms processing in the Public Sector
- OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics
- Brand new MS Belux Partner Portal!
- ESB Guidance Package
- Visibility and Control in a Service-Oriented Architecture
- OBA Refererence Application Pack for Health Plans Launched
- Forrester Reseach on spreadsheets in enterprises (enter OBA)
- MSDN Enterprise Architecture Site Launched
- Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance Project
- Enterprise Architecture: 20 year retrospective and links with SOA
- Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Project Server Connected!
- May 2007 Release of Software Factory
- ZDNet on OBA
- *major* milestone in MS smartclient strategy
- Here we go!