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New Application Architecture Guide (v.2.0) from Microsoft Patterns & Practices!!

Cool!, just a few days ago (Thu Sep 25 2008) Microsoft P&P have published a neat 'Application Architecture Guide' (v.2.0). It is great because "it is new", so it covers most of the new Microsoft dev technologies and application/architecture types we're dealing with, nowadays. :-) Even though P&P have published just "the begining", in January 2009 they will have it finished. That's why it is right now in "http://www.codeplex.com", it will be evolving during several weeks.. This is the map about what it covers: Here's a basic diagram representing the Conceptual Framework: Architecture styles covered by P&P App Arch. Guide v.2.0: Application Types (Archetypes): The guide describes canonical application archetypes to illustrate common application types. Each archetype is described in terms of the target scenarios. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft’s $300 million ‘consumer product blitz’ inches closer

What kinds of products will Microsoft be pushing when it launches its new $200 million to $300 million consumer-product ad campaign in early 2008? AdAge has reported that Microsoft has narrowed its search for an agency to handle creative for the forthcoming “consumer-products blitz” to two: MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Publicis Groupe’s Fallon. No doubt, Xboxes and Zunes will be on the roster. Windows Home Server (which is currently plagued by a serious and still unresolved file-corruption bug) could be on the list, too. Windows Live services and Windows Vista could stand for some serious consumer advertising help. Other likely candidates for Microsoft’s consumer ad campaign? I’d bet the Surface tabletop technology — which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will show off during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote in early January — will be part of the campaign. [lien] [EN]

A Brand (New) Recipe For Microsoft

digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/06/06/a-brand-new-recipe-for-microsoft.aspx";digg_title = "A Brand (New) Recipe For Microsoft";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal"; digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Brace yourself for my longest post in a some time. This topic has been something I’ve been stewing on for a while and finally was motivated to write about when I read Sean Ammirati’s post entitled My Recipe for Microsoft — Act More Like CP+B. He references the recent Fast Company article Can Alex Bogusky help Microsoft Beat Apple? with CP+B being Crispin Porter and Bogusky – the agency who reportedly has $300m to help overhaul the Microsoft brand. [lien] [EN]

Adding a new BizTalk Server Isolated Host needs a new Application Pool

Recently, we tried creating a secondary Isolated Host to separate receive and send processing for WCF. After reconfiguring the servers, we were faced with the "Receive location for address '' not found. (The BizTalk receive location may be disabled)". Puzzled, we looked around for configuration issues. After some reading (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559328.aspx), we remembered a new isolated host needs a new application pool. Adding another application pool to the mix the the new host fixed our trouble... Jotted down for posterity ;-) [lien] [EN]

New version of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile now available on partner source

The Microsoft Dynamics Mobile Team is really proud and pleased to announce that a new version of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile were released to PartnerSource last friday! This new version of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile is Better Than Ever by significantly raising the bar in a number of areas: · Tightly integrated and aligned with both the releases of Dynamics AX 2009 SP1 and Dynamics NAV 2009 · Upgraded support for the latest Microsoft technologies (WM 6.1, Visual Studio 2008, SQL 2008, SQL CE 3.5 SP1,...(read more) [lien] [EN]

New Super Surface Hates Water AND Oil!

MIT researchers led by chemical engineer Robert Cohen and mechanical engineer Gareth McKinley have created the world’s first superoleophobic and superhydrophobic surface (let me translate for you: the "super surface" repels both water and oil): A group of MIT researchers have created an improved set of design rules for making any surface impervious to any liquid, [...] [lien] [EN]

What does Microsoft’s IPTV reorg have to do with ‘Fiji’?

I’ve been thinking about Microsoft’s quiet reorg, via which the company unified the IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD initiatives into a single organization, known as the Microsoft Connected TV business group. Just munging these three teams together doesn’t necessarily mean a cohesive set of Microsoft TV products and services will suddenly emerge. As Microsoft Platform Strategy Advisor Harry Mower blogged: “This is a step in the right direction as long as we also begin to consolidate the underlying platforms and developer technologies. Today, if you want to build a media experiences that spans devices, you are forced to use a hodgepodge of languages, tools and standards. Until we (Microsoft) realize that we need to deliver one unified platform for multimedia development and consumption. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft adds a new subscription licensing plan for SMBs

Microsoft is making available in the U.S. and Canada a volume-license subscription plan aimed at small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). The plan, known as the Open Value Subscription, has been available in various Microsoft international subsidiairies since 2000/2001, according to company officials. Eric Ligman, Microsoft US Senior Manager for Small Business Community Engagement,  announced via a posting on the Microsoft Small Business Community blog Microsoft’s strategy to add Open Value Subscription as an option, starting on March 3, 2008. Liggman blogged: “The Microsoft Open Value Subscription Program provides a way for SMB customers to ’subscribe’ to the Microsoft software they want to utilize in their businesses in a ‘lease. [lien] [EN]

A New Motto For Microsoft Vista!

Courtesy of an unidentified commenter on a survey done over at PC World comes a catchy new slogan for the newest Microsoft operating system. Vista: It runs like a dead hamster! When I posted a little survey concerning the news that Microsoft plans to discontinue most sales of Windows XP on June 30th, I expected lots of people to take it, and for the sentiment to be overwhelmingly pro-XP. They did, and it was. (More than 3500 people completed the survey, and 83 percent of them are unhappy with Microsoft's move.) I was startled by how many people took the time to not only participate in the survey but share their thoughts at length–and by how diverse their opinions were. Some folks were raving fans of XP; others just grudgingly tolerated it. Some reported nightmares with Windows Vista. [lien] [EN]

Why a New Browser From Microsoft Matters

Microsoft’s new Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, is now available in a beta version meant for ordinary users, and it’s a pretty good piece of software. Besides the private browsing mode, called InPrivate, which Microsoft has already announced, there are other nifty features. When your cursor moves over, say, an address on a Web site, one of IE 8’s so-called Accelerators drops down a menu bar of different Web mapping services. Click and the address is mapped. No copying and pasting across Web sites. IE8 has also been designed so that tabbed Web sites are isolated. That means a poorly behaving Web site won’t crash the whole browser, just that tab. The list goes on, and Microsoft explains all the new features on its Web site. IE 6, introduced in 2001. [lien] [EN]

New Pics Surface of Anonymous Apple Laptop [Rumor]

Taiwanese blog Apple.Pro has put out a couple more pictures that could be related to the upcoming Macbook Pro. We're not sure if they're real or not, but there are enough photos out there to at least mostly rule out Photoshop. While the new pictures resemble case images we saw earlier, it looks to be designed for a smaller laptop and lacks their speaker grills. The keyboard seems to be identical to the MacBook Air, but with a larger trackpad. The left side houses all the ports (much like the earlier photo), while the right side has a slot for the optical drive. Apple.Pro is responsible for previous case images as well, but only time will tell how accurate their tips are. [Apple Pro via Mac Rumors] Read More: Nintendo DSi Will Come Loaded With Extra RAM, Reggie Denies HD Wii in 2011 Rumor. [lien] [EN]

More Microsoft predictions from around the Web

Earlier this week, I weighed in with my 10 Microsoft predictions for 2008. A few other Microsoft watchers have done the same. Among some of the other interesting prognostications out there: Steven Bink: Don’t forget about the Windows Server 2008-based bundles that are coming in the new year. Bink mentions Cougar (Windows Small Business Serer 2008); Centro (Windows Essential Business Server 2008; Windows Storage Server 2008; and Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2008. WindowsConnected: Betas of Windows Server 2008 SP1 and Windows Vista SP2, predicts WindowsConnected’s Josh Phillips. (Me? I’ll be surprised if there are even private betas of either of these next year, especially given the pace at which Microsoft is developing/testing/rolling out Vista SP1 and XP SP3. [lien] [EN]

Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test

A week after Opera Software filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft that focused, in part, on Microsoft’s falure to make Internet Explorer (IE) standards-compliant, Microsoft has gone on record stating IE 8 will include support for key Web standards. Microsoft verified last week that an internal test build of IE 8 passed the Acid2 Browser Test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE Development. Hachamovitch noted the milestone in a blog post to the IE Team blog on December 19. Microsoft also posted a video to its Channel 9 Web site explaining the finer points for developers interested in the Acid2 details. Acid2 is a test page, maintained by the independent Web Standards Project group, that was written to help browser vendors ensure support for Web standards in their products. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft ‘officially’ announces XP SP3 public test build

Even though Microsoft began pushing out a public test build of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 the week of December 10, it wasn’t until December 18 that the company would acknowledge officially the existence of that build. On the 18th, Microsoft made the XP SP 3 Release Candidate (RC) build available for download from the Microsoft Download site. Microsoft allowed the same, near-final build to be released last week on several public file sharing sites. When I asked Microsoft December 11 whether the public RC of XP SP3 was available, the company declined to comment. Yesterday, Microsoft sent me the following statement: “Today, Windows XP SP3 RC was made available to the public via the Microsoft Download Center. While Windows Vista provides the most advanced security and management capabilities of any Windows Operating System. [lien] [EN]