First update of Windows Phone 7

The first update of the Windows Phone 7 is coming soon.  Some people say end-of January others, mid-February 2011.

Microsoft has started to release information about the new features.

Not much is known at the moment:

• Cut & Paste
• Faster start-up and resume of apps & games
• Better marketplace search

My new Windows Phone 7

I finally got into it and bought a Windows Phone 7!

The device is an HTC Surround.  I’m sure you’ve read plenty of reviews, so here’s just a list of pros and cons of the new OS.

To give some context, I’m not a huge gadget consumer.  My previous similar device was an iPod Touch first generation.  My previous phone...

Single Sign-On from Active Directory to a Windows Azure Application Whitepaper

A new whitepaper on how to connect to Windows Azure hosted applications using Active Directory has been published in December 2010.

The two major building blocks are WIF & ADFS.

I did cover this topic in a series of blog last summer.  Now you have a nicely packaged whitepaper explaining it!

Also, Microsoft has published a series...

Surface 2.0

Microsoft has shown the new Surface table at the CES show.

The new device is able to be either horizontal or vertical (v 1.0 was horizontal only), is coming with Windows 7 loaded on an AMD Athlon II X2 Dual-Core Processor 2.9GHz and a GPU AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series.

New Full IIS Capabilities: Differences from Hosted Web Core

The Windows Azure Team has posted a blog entry explaining the new Full IIS Capabilities in Windows Azure Hosting.

It is an interesting read.  Basically the full IIS feature is enabled via the configuration of your package.

The very important caveat is the following:  the IIS Process isn’t the web role process.  This has the big implication that your...