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345 days ago
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) Annual Meeting. Microsoft was a sponsor of the meeting and I was one of the speakers. It was a fantastic experience. I was able to talk to a number of people involved in both the academic and commercial side of research parks. My talk was on the future on computing. I choose not to talk about thousands of processors and terabytes of memory, but on the current discussion of Software as a Service (SaaS). Interestingly (to me at least) as a prepared for the talk I thought that application as a service might be a better description of what SaaS is. I also talked about the emerging trend of platform as a Service (PaaS). I talked about SaaS and PaaS from the context of Microsoft Software + Services (S+S) strategy including Windows Azure. My talk should be posted on the AURP web site soon. I believe that companies: will choose (on-premise and hosted) by business needs, ...
491 days ago
I stumbled across a set of simple, short and informative Silverlight Beta 2 Release 2 videos. They start with the assumption of no Silverlight knowledge and do a good job of building your skills and knowledge from there. http://www.mtaulty.com/SLVideos.html
686 days ago
Alfred Thompson has a post on his blog pointing to some great getting started resources for Silverlight. I have been thinking about spending some time with Silverlight and it seems these resource are just the tools I need.
