Microsoft Support for Windows Azure: A+

The other day I found myself having an issue while finalizing a proof of concept on Windows Azure.

I was unable to deploy my solution.  It was staying in initialization / stop / pending cycle forever.

After a while (a few days), having tried different combination of staging / production, manual / Visual Studio deployment, etc., I went to...

Windows Phone 7 OS is RTM

A big mile stone for the Windows Phone 7:  Release to Market (RTM) of its OS.

With a billion dollars marketing campaign, it brings to mind the campaign done for Windows 95 launch.  Let’s hope the Windows Phone 7 will be as transformative as Windows 95 was.   The current Windows Phone looks so 2000’s :(

I’m actually confident...

Azure Service Bus

I’ve found a very good article giving a broad overview of the Azure Service Bus.  It’s a blog entry from Clemens Vaster who’s working at Microsoft in the Windows Azure team.

Azure Service Bus is part of Windows Azure AppFabric.  AppFabric has received much less press than the Azure hosting, storage & SQL Azure.  Maybe because it...

Live Mesh is back!

Live Mesh is back baby!

The service that has been in beta for around two years, known as Windows Live Mesh was packaged in Live Essentials 2011 as Live Sync.

Microsoft came back to the original name:  Windows Live Mesh.

Thanks to Mary-Jo Foley for digging that information!

I’ve been using Live Mesh since day...

Windows Azure Customer Feedback

Microsoft has setup a customer feedback site for Windows Azure a few months ago.  It has a voting feature where you can vote for new features you would like to see in Windows Azure.

Here are the top 9 ideas I liked:

• Make it less expensive to run my very small service on Windows Azure
• Continue...