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2014 3

  1. Windows Insider Program – 1 Million Registrations
  2. Join the Windows Insider Program today!
  3. Announcing Windows 10

2013 4

  1. Free software, services, and support for entrepreneurs and independent developers
  2. Have a great idea for a game? Bring it to life at Game On!
  3. Windows Azure Developer Camps 2013Q4
  4. Sharing Code between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Applications

2012 25

  1. Windows Store app development for iOS developers in Mountain View on December 13 & 14
  2. .NET Rocks road trip in a city near you
  3. Facebook & Windows 8 Hackathon November 30
  4. Windows Phone Camp - 12/7/2012 - Mountain View, CA
  5. Professional Windows 8 Programming
  6. Join us in the biggest launch event in Microsoft history
  7. Pre-Order Windows 8 Pro, Get $30 Promotional Credit
  8. ASUS Taichi 21-DH71 11.6-Inch Convertible Touch Ultrabook
  9. ASUS VivoBook X202E Windows 8 Touch Laptop
  10. Professional Windows 8 Programming with C# and XAML
  11. Pre-Order Windows 8 Pro Now!!!
  12. Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript
  13. Announcing BUILD 2012!!!
  14. Ready.Set() {Code}
  15. Windows 8 Release Preview Coming June 2012
  16. SQL Server 2012 - SQLCLR .NET Framework Version
  17. SQL Server 2012 Management Studio – Darker Shades of Blue Theme
  18. Microsoft DevCamps for Phone, Cloud and Web
  19. SQL Server 2012 RTM
  20. Getting Shaved to Fight Childhood Cancer
  21. Windows 8 Consumer Preview
  22. KINECT for Windows Released Today!!!
  23. NuCon 2012: Technology Leadership Conference
  24. T-Mobile: America’s First 4G NOKIA Windows Phone - NOKIA LUMIA 710
  25. KINECT for Windows – Coming to a PC near you February 1, 2012!

2011 66

  1. Windows Phone Stopwatch 5.1 RTM
  2. Debugging the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps
  3. Testing the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps
  4. Windows 8 First Apps Contest
  5. Windows Phone Wants to Feature Your App!!!
  6. Windows Phone Night Parties Los Angeles – Nov 30 & Dec 1, 2011
  7. TechNet Events Presents: The Pathway to the Private Cloud
  8. More Windows Azure DevCamps in December 2011
  9. Windows Azure DevCamps Silicon Valley | October 28-29, 2011
  10. Windows Phone “Mango” Update Begins!
  11. Customize a Windows Phone 7 Live Tile
  12. In advance of Windows 8, it’s good to look back at where the Ribbon came from…
  13. In advance of Windows 8, it’s good to look back at where the Ribbon came from…
  14. In advance of Windows 8, its good to look back at where the Ribbon came from
  15. Dilbert’s Scott Adams accepts the Windows Phone Challenge
  16. Windows Phone “Mango” – Released to Manufacturing
  17. Got Exceptions? AppHub Windows Phone Application Crash Reporting
  18. Free HTML5 Training | August 19, 2011 | Los Angeles
  19. Boeing Takes to the Cloud with a Solution to Market its Best-Selling Airplane
  20. Install Windows Phone “Mango” on Retail Devices
  21. Microsoft Advertising SDK Update is Now Available
  22. Microsoft Gamefest 2011 – Seattle, WA August 22-23, London, England July 14-15, and Tokyo July 29!
  23. Crowdsourcing Discussion at Caltech | June 11, 2011
  24. When products attack -or- How bad design makes your users loose sleep
  25. New Disney Tron Legacy Site Comes Alive With HTML5 in Internet Explorer 9
  26. 2012 Election for Windows Phone RTM
  27. BUILD will show you that ‘Windows 8’ changes everything!
  28. BUILD | 2011.09.13-16 | Anaheim, CA
  29. Independence Day for Windows Phone 7 RTM
  30. Samsung Focus Ranked #1 AT&T Smartphone, Sorry Apple!
  31. Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta Release
  32. Windows Phone Press Conference, New York City – Tune in Tomorrow 10:00AM EST
  33. IE9 Site Pinning - BuildMyPinnedSite.com
  34. Verizon Wireless Launching Windows Phone 7 HTC Trophy
  35. Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 RTM
  36. Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android
  37. Event - XAPFest LA 2011 Saturday, June 4th, 2011 | 9AM – 10PM
  38. 15 Design Principles
  39. The most important design talk you’ll see this year
  40. Using Images as Buttons on Windows Phone 7
  41. Hello Windows Phone 7 OS (codenamed “Mango”)
  42. MIX 2011 Keynote Day 1 - Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview, ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Refresh, Entity Framework 4.1
  43. Internet Service Bus and Windows Azure AppFabric
  44. Windows 7 slate PCs Part 2
  45. IE9 is Released
  46. Windows 7 slate PCs Part 1
  47. Rise of the cloud ecosystems
  48. Cloud-optimized architecture and Advanced Telemetry
  49. Unplug from your day job. Be inspired at MIX
  50. The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning
  51. A Day of Multicore Programming in the SF Bay Area
  52. Nokia & Microsoft Announce Plans for Strategic Partnership
  53. Windows Internet Explorer 9 RC Performance
  54. Windows Internet Explorer 9 RC Released to Web!!!
  55. Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Released to Manufacturing!!!
  56. January Update of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools support Copy & Paste
  57. Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform
  58. Azure Capacity Assessment
  59. Access to Windows Phone 7 Camera Roll from a Silverlight App …
  60. HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone - MIX 2011 Registration Open
  61. Designing for Cloud-Optimized Architecture
  62. Run Java with GlassFish in Windows Azure
  63. We’re Hiring - Northern California Developer Evangelist
  64. Registration Open for Silicon Valley and Redmond Web Camps!
  65. Microsoft at 2011 CES, January 6-9, 2011
  66. Outlook 2010 Plain Text Folder …

2010 79

  1. Professional Parallel Programming with C# - Master Parallel Extensions with .NET 4.0
  2. StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets January 2011 Release
  3. 1.5 Million Windows Phone 7 Devices Shipped!
  4. Windows Phone 7 Christmas Countdown Application
  5. Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
  6. Windows Azure Event in Denver
  7. Cloud Economics … You’re Fired!
  8. Weird Hole-Punch Cloud Today
  9. Programming WCF Services
  10. Future of Silverlight Starts Now!
  11. StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets November Release
  12. Why does your Windows Phone 7 app need access to my phone calls?
  13. StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets & Templates
  14. PDC 2010 Live Event – Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus
  15. PDC Live in Silicon Valley
  16. Can’t make it to PDC? Come join us to watch it streamed live.
  17. Silicon Valley Code Camp - Code Generation Presentation Downloads
  18. Windows Phone 7. Stop Dreaming. Start Building.
  19. Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Event – Mountain View (Oct 12-13), San Francisco (Oct 20-21)
  20. Building Highly Scalable Java Applications on Windows Azure (JavaOne 2010)
  21. Windows Phone 7 Development Tools RTM …
  22. Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Event
  23. Do you know about Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System?
  24. Categorizing the Cloud Part 2: Where does my business fit?
  25. International SOA & Cloud Symposium
  26. Rob Bagby coming back to town!
  27. Categorizing the Cloud …
  28. Microsoft Patterns & Practices Symposium 2010
  29. Cloud Computing as a New Development Paradigm
  30. Some Windows Phone 7 Previews …
  31. Active Directory and BizTalk in the Cloud?
  32. Standardization in the Cloud – Necessity or Optional?
  33. Speaking on launches – if you haven’t used eBay Simple Lister, what are you waiting for?!
  34. Speaking on launches if you havent used eBay Simple Lister, what are you waiting for?!
  35. Schematic’s 2010 Cannes Lions Touchwall Launches, powered by WPF
  36. Silverlight Development Event at the Microsoft Store Mission Viejo
  37. SOA with .NET and Windows Azure
  38. Absolutely No Excuse!
  39. In-Person Event: The Full Testing Experience - Professional Quality Assurance with Visual Studio 2010
  40. Hello World v.s. the Twitter App
  41. Do you know about Seadragon?
  42. Do you know about SkyDrive?
  43. Trusting your gut …
  44. Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event – Live Online Webcast
  45. Set specific port for ASP.NET Development Server …
  46. Architect Innovation Café – June Event
  47. Good Azure sites …
  48. Windows Phone 7 Development Jump-Start Events
  49. MSDN Looks Different (Who Moved My Cheese?)
  50. IASA Architecture Foundation Class in Irvine, May 17-21, 2010
  51. Free Training – Microsoft Web Camps in Mountain View on May 27 & 28, 2010
  52. Free Training – Microsoft Web Camps in Mountain View on May 27 & 28, 2010
  53. Do you know about Photosynth?
  54. Some tools I highly recommend …
  55. OData and You: An everyday guide for Architects
  56. Azure Skittles - Series
  57. Parallel Execution of Visual Studio 2010 Unit Tests
  58. eBay Simple Lister beta
  59. UStream IE8 Web Slice Add-on
  60. DreamFactory is Live on Windows Azure
  61. Facebook App Toolkit for Windows Azure
  62. Netflix Announces OData Catalog API Preview
  63. Flixster Internet Explorer 8 Accelerator & Web Slice
  64. A Pragmatic Hybrid Approach to Cloud Computing
  65. SnapFlow Adopts Silverlight 4
  66. Windows Phone 7 Series is DIFFERENT
  67. Azure – the cool parts! A BizSpark Camp
  68. CloudPlay
  69. CloudPlay – Cloud Computing Event in Mountain View on April 29, 2010
  70. One-Hour Online Training for Windows Azure
  71. Register now for the Visual Studio 2010 Launch event
  72. Flixster Internet Explorer 8 Accelerator & Web Slice
  73. Silverlight4 Release Candidate Announced at MIX10
  74. Run Java with Jetty in Windows Azure
  75. 60-minute Architect focused Webcast
  76. Architect Cafe Online Webcasts March 2010 Series
  77. Upcoming Architect Cafe Webcasts
  78. Upcoming Architect Webcasts – Good Stuff
  79. SnapFlow Adopts Silverlight 4 - Keynotes at PDC09

2009 146

  1. Shop at eBay with IE8 Daily Deal Web Slice
  2. Architect Cafe | December 2009 Series | Online Webcasts
  3. Microsoft In-Person Architect Councils in the West Region (December) ~ 2101: A Cloud Odyssey
  4. Event - Microsoft SharePoint as a Development Platform
  5. Silverlight4 Beta Availability for Developers
  6. Free and no Azure token required - PDC Windows Azure walkthrough, Step-by-step ‘hello world’
  7. Dolly Parton on IE8 Web Slices
  8. Hello, world!
  9. Best Party at PDC09! Free Registration!
  10. Architect Council | 2010: A Cloud Odyssey
  11. Architect Council | 2010: A Cloud Odyssey
  12. Architect Cafe | November 2009 Series | Online Webcasts
  13. Architect Innovation Cafe - November 2009 Series
  14. Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight Series
  15. Windows Azure World Tour with David Chappell
  16. Good luck, Rob
  17. Architect Cafe | October 2009 Series | Online Webcasts
  18. Architect Innovation Cafe - October 2009 Series
  19. Netflix uses Silverlight & Smooth Streaming to stream the Wizard of Oz to America
  20. Looking Glass in Ad Age
  21. Photobucket Visual Search wins “Best in Industry” award from Web Marketing Association
  22. Microsoft WebsiteSpark Launches!
  23. Writing a simple Internet Explorer Accelerator
  24. ARCast – Interview with Ward Bell on Silverlight for RIA at UFC Gyms
  25. Architect Council Events
  26. Architect Innovation Cafe - Online Webcast Events
  27. Microsoft SQL Azure CTP Available
  28. Architect Cafe | September 2009 Series | Online Webcasts
  29. Architect Cafe | September 2009 Series
  30. Google: The Kafka-esque dictator of the internet
  31. Come see me at the IxDA SF next Tuesday, 8.25
  32. Silverlight 3 FireStarter | Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - Live Meeting Available
  33. Silverlight 3 FireStarter | Thursday 2009.09.17 | Redmond, WA or Online
  34. Architect Cafe | August 2009 Series | Online Webcasts
  35. Cutting Through the Fog of the Cloud
  36. Microsoft Wave
  37. See the Future of Microsoft Technology @ PDC09
  38. Windows Azure – Business Model and more…
  39. Azure Commercial Availability Confirmed, Business Model Announced and More..
  40. Office Web Applications as Native Browser Apps in Microsoft Office 2010
  41. Silverlight and Photosynth at Stargate Universe
  42. Silverlight and Live Messenger at Photobucket
  43. Embedded Database Engine for Silverlight Applications
  44. Silverlight 3 Released!
  45. Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch
  46. How Can I Get a Job Like That!
  47. Photobucket Visual Search Launches!
  48. MGM Studios – Silverlight enables fans to explore the Stargate Universe and generates incremental Ad revenue for the Studio
  49. Linerider.com – physics-engine powered game on Silverlight and Windows Live Services
  50. Over 30 Million Pages a day on ASP.NET, Windows, and SQL – Break.com
  51. Kelley Blue Book embraces Software plus Services
  52. Silverlight 2 DeepZoom Technical Preview by Newegg.com
  53. Silverlight and Bing Maps Used at Grubb & Ellis
  54. The Business Value of Cloud Computing
  55. Ancestry.com Uses Silverlight for Genealogy Browser
  56. Archstone Apartments Leverages WPF and Live Maps for Kiosks
  57. Web Activities in Windows Live
  58. Digg Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8
  59. MSDN Summer Bytes
  60. Pragmatic Patterns for Architects content is now available
  61. Architect Council | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects - WrapUp
  62. BizTalk 2009 is coming
  63. PING Uses Visualization Technologies to Help Golfers
  64. John L. Scott Real Estate Enables Online Social Networking with Live Services and Silverlight
  65. ebaY sidebar for Internet Explorer 8
  66. Architect Council | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
  67. Video Interviews at TechEd North America
  68. Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
  69. Architect Council (Webcasts): Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
  70. Esurance Delivers Key Services to Mobile Channel via Microsoft Platform
  71. Scott Guthrie Returns to Phoenix!
  72. BizSpark Phoenix – Legal Issues for Startups
  73. Roadmap for Major Technology Announced at TechEd
  74. Yahoo! optimized IE8 Web Slice
  75. MyProcess Prefers Silverlight over Flash for their SnapFlow Tool
  76. Microsoft .NET Services Whitepapers Released
  77. SnapFlow Prefers Silverlight over Flash for their Workflow Tool
  78. BizSpark hits 12,000!
  79. new CloudApp() – The Azure Challenge
  80. John L Scott Real Estate Looks to WPF and Software + Services
  81. Pragmatic Patterns for Architects
  82. Beyond SOA – Why User Experience Matters
  83. Office 2007 SP2 is out
  84. BizSpark – Giving Startups a boost!
  85. More Upcoming MSDN Events
  86. Thinking of Starting a Business
  87. Videos from the recent Architect Council Series
  88. Updates to Windows Azure
  89. Touch Windows 7
  90. Free WPF Training in Los Angeles on 4/24-25 and Phoenix on 6/26-27
  91. Good News on the Interoperability Front
  92. PC - “I’m Cheaper” Laptop Hunters Ad Airs
  93. Windows Azure and SQL Services Updates from MIX09
  94. Microsoft Releases Update to .NET Services
  95. Internet Explore 8 Optimized for eBay
  96. MIX09 Big Announcements!
  97. AJAX, HTTP, and SOAP access to Microsoft Translator
  98. At MIX09 - A Few Big Announcements!
  99. Silverlight 3 Beta
  100. Best practices for development using Visual Studio – free events
  101. Agile development with Scrum – free events
  102. Architect Council – Webcast Version
  103. Internet Explorer 8 Firestarter Event
  104. Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Industry Solutions Conference 2009 (May 5 and 6: NYC)
  105. Silverlight Means Business!
  106. SlideShare Supports PowerPoint 07 Format - pptx
  107. Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter Event - Redmond, WA and Online - Mar 26th, 2009
  108. Internet Explorer 8 “FireStarter” Event | Mar 26th 2009
  109. Denver Architect Council Series
  110. Denver Partner Architect Council
  111. Free Web Hosting & Web Tools from Microsoft
  112. Online Events – Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Catalyst Workshops
  113. Federated Search in Windows 7
  114. Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta Follow Up
  115. Photos from the Phizzpop Design Challenge LA
  116. See Archetype’s Resonate in action
  117. And the winner is…
  118. Azure Services Platform - “How Do I…?” Videos
  119. Event - Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals Workshop
  120. Microsoft Recite – Voice Notes as a Service
  121. Phizzpop Design Challenge LA – Feb 20th, 2009 at Zune LA
  122. Do you do anything with Databases…
  123. Freebie – A t-shirt for Taking a Survey!
  124. Event - Azure, Debugging and Mobility on Feb. 26 in Anaheim, CA
  125. Microsoft Surface used for Super Bowl Security
  126. Rocky Mountain Trifecta – February 21st
  127. Register for VSLive by Feb 4th and go to the MSDN Developer Conf for Free
  128. Silverlight Training from SoftSource
  129. Windows 7 (Beta) is here!
  130. New Video Explains S+S
  131. Live Mesh wins at the Crunchies!
  132. Architecture and Connected Systems SIG – San Diego 2009.01.03
  133. Series - Cloud Computing and Microsoft
  134. Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Platform
  135. Live Mesh Awarded Best Technology Innovation/Achievement Crunchie
  136. Windows 7 Beta 1 Announced at CES 2009
  137. SOA – End of Life 2009.01.01
  138. Microsoft Tag – Interactive Mobile Bar Codes
  139. Event – Silverlight 2.0 Hands on Labs in Irvine, CA on Jan. 15
  140. What is Live Mesh?
  141. Unsolicited Windows Vista Testimonial
  142. Event – MSDN Unleashed: The Best of PDC
  143. Event – MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) in San Francisco on 2009.02.19
  144. Upcoming Event – MSDN Unleashed: The Best of PDC
  145. ARCast Panel Discussion – The Role of the Architect
  146. Event – XamlFest on January 14 & 15, 2009 at Irvine, California

2008 21

  1. Does a Company Need a Chief Engineer / Chief Software Architect / Chief Anything?
  2. Architect Council – San Francisco 2008.12.18
  3. Pandora arrives on Windows Mobile
  4. SeaDragon on iPhone
  5. SlideShare PowerPoint Ribbon – it’s S+S!
  6. Architect Council – Bellevue 2008.12.16
  7. Architect Council - Irvine 2008.12.11
  8. My Azure Services Talk at ProDev Partner Briefing
  9. Yahoo! Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators
  10. InfoSpace Selects Silverlight to Power Toolbars
  11. Architect Council - Phoenix 2008.12.09
  12. Architect Council - Los Angeles 2008.12.04
  13. Multi-Enterprise Business Applications (MEBA) as Cloud-Based Next-Generation B2B Business Processes
  14. Microsoft Windows Client FireStarter Event
  15. Architect Council - Mountain View 2008.11.18
  16. 2008 Q4 Architect Council - Cloud Computing and Impact on Architecture
  17. Free Upcoming MSDN Event
  18. MSNBC Election Prediction Application
  19. ARCast with Peter Provost
  20. Follow up from Denver Visual Studio User Group
  21. My ARCast Interview with Mario Cardinal

2007 1

  1. Microsoft 2008 Technology Preview