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endpoint.tv – Activity Designers and Designer Rehosting with Kushal Shah

June 4, 10 //
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Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4 (WF4) makes it possible for you to build custom activity designers that allow different kinds of users to graphically design business processes. In this episode, Kushal Shah, program manager for the Workflow Designer team, shows us how you can build custom activities with support for the developers and end users who collaborate to build business processes.

Download the sample code from this video

For more information, see the Windows Workflow Foundation Developer Center on MSDN.

Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010

April 12, 10 //
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Many customers are turning to SharePoint as a way of meeting changing business needs and managing IT costs and complexity. Visual Studio 2010 provides new support for SharePoint 2010 development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company. 

In this session we will cover connecting SharePoint to external data, enhancing customizations with Silverlight, and leveraging SharePoint data from Office client extensions. You will see how to leverage your existing .NET skills to deliver new functionality on a platform that is readily familiar to end-users.

Eron Kelly: Moving Microsoft to the Cloud – Past, Present and Future

April 7, 10 //
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Eron Kelly, Director of Microsoft’s Business Online Services Product Management, discusses the key role that Microsoft Online Services plays in Microsoft’s transformation from a software company to an online services company, and provides a sneak peek into the future of Microsoft Online Services.
 
You’ve heard about economy of scale. How about economy of skill? Learn how BPOS provides customers with both.
 
How can Microsoft make money selling services? What’s the value for Microsoft? What’s the value for our partners and customers?  Learn about the new tools and features that will help partners work efficiently with more customers and help them develop customer solutions on the Microsoft Online Services platform.
 
Also, in this interview Eron finally answers the question you’ve all been asking: “What’s the distinction between Microsoft Online Services and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)?”

Learn more in the Microsoft Online Services community: 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/msonline
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftOnlineServices
MOS Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/ 

endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft Dynamics AX

March 19, 10 //
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What if you wanted to allow your business customers to modify the way their business processes work without resorting to custom code? Many products have this requirement, as does Microsoft Dynamics AX. In this episode, I’ll chat with Josh Honeyman, development lead on the team, about how they used WF4 along with a very cool looking flowchart design surface to give their product an edge in a competitive market.

Steven Cloherty: Microsoft Online Services Risk Management

February 24, 10 //
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In this Microsoft Online Services executive video, we meet Steven Cloherty, Senior Director of Risk Management for Microsoft Online Services.  Steven runs our risk management team which includes security, privacy, business continuity, and regulatory compliance teams. He and his teams make sure that our services are safe and recoverable, that our customers’ data are safe, and that their privacy is protected.

The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) has recently earned the Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS) No. 70 Type II, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance, and the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) 27001 standard – among others.  In addition, Microsoft has launched a new dedicated government cloud as part of the Business Productivity Online Suite to meet the most rigorous government requirements for security and privacy, including complying with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Learn how these and other certifications help ensure our customers security, privacy, and business continuity. 

Learn more in the Microsoft Online Services community: 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/msonline
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftOnlineServices
MOS Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/

Ron Markezich: Microsoft Online Services Corporate Vice President

February 1, 10 //
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Meet Ron Markezich, the Microsoft corporate vice president responsible for Microsoft’s Online Services business. Learn about Ron’s career at Microsoft, and hear his thoughts on the past, present, and future of Microsoft Online Services.

What is BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), exactly? When did Microsoft form its online services vision? What does Ron think about the current state of online services? What are the next steps for Microsoft’s online services and the online services industry? How does online services fit into Microsoft’s future plans?

Tune in.

Learn more in the Microsoft Online Services community: 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/msonline
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftOnlineServices
MOS Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/

Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services

October 28, 09 //
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Dave Thompson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Online Services, is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in IT.  In his leadership role for Microsoft Online Services, Dave is responsible for leading the delivery of Microsoft’s business software products as online services. Dave has a rich history solving complex problems in computing. He’s the guy that put TCP into Windows, back in the day. Today, his focus is squarely on taking Microsoft’s business platform to the next level, up to the cloud. What does this all mean, exactly? How complex is it to take traditional software and turn it into a service? What are the big problems that Dave and team face? How does this concentrated focus on services benefit developers and businesses that build their innovations on the Microsoft stack?

Tune in. Meet Dave and get a clear sense of where we are heading as Microsoft continues the evolution of PC and server software. These are exciting times for Microsoft, and We are bringing our partners into this new territory with us. Fascinating times indeed. Keep up the great work Dave and team!

Diversity, Innovation, Business Dev & Emerging Markets

September 24, 09 //
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Diversity, Innovation, Business Dev & Emerging Markets
Google Tech Talk September 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Jorge Zavala. A walk through the life of Jorge Zavala as an engineer, serial entrepreneur and business developer, and the challenges he faced doing business in Latin America to the creation of global companies in Silicon Valley. Jorge will share his experiences opening the first techba office: a Mexican program to help startups to jumpstart in a highly innovated and competitive environment. He will also explain about various …
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PDC09 Workshop: Developing Microsoft BI Applications – The How and The Why

September 19, 09 //
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BI, or “Business Intelligence” allows businesses to make better use of their data, and resources in order to make better decisions related to how to grow and improve their business. For the PDC09 in Los Angeles, Andrew Brust and Don Demsak will be presenting a special day-long workshop on November 16th which will show developers how to easily leverage Microsoft tools and technologies to solve the BI needs of their companies.

I invited Andrew and Don to discuss their workshop with me, but since they live on the East Coast I relied on Peter Laudati, special correspondent for The Knowledge Chamber, to conduct the interview for me.

You can find more information about the workshop that Andrew and Don will be doing here:

And information about Microsoft BI technologies in general here:

Java on a 1000 Cores – Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign

September 8, 09 //
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Java on a 1000 Cores – Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign
Google Tech Talk August 12, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Cliff Click, Azul Systems. Azul Systems designs and builds systems for running business logic applications written in Java. Unlike scientific computing, business logic code tends to be very large and complex (greater than 1MLOC is common), display very irregular data access patterns, and make heavy use of threads and locks. The common unit of parallelism is the transaction or thread-level task. Business logic programs tend to have high …
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