BPOS is dead, long live Office 365

Starting in early 2010, what was previously known as BPOS version 2 or Union will be available as Office 365.  The name should reflect the availability of the platform (which suffered some reputation step back this summer).  Today the beta is released, available to a 1000+ customers worldwide.

Among...

The end the Chief Software Architect title @ Microsoft?

Ray Ozzy is stepping down the Chief Software Architect role at Microsoft.

He’s going to leave Microsoft in the short future.

Steve Balmer isn’t naming a new Chief Software Architect for the moment.

Since Bill Gates left Microsoft, the company has been running from one re-org to the other.  For instance,...

Microsoft’s jQuery contributions as official plug-ins

A quick note about Microsoft’s contributions to jQuery (namely XYZ):  they are now official plug-ins!

We’ve read several months ago about the contributions of Microsoft to jQuery, that is, Globalization, Templates and Data Linking.

Those plug-ins bring a programming model relatively close to Microsoft WPF (or Silverlight) but quite in line with jQuery.  It also shows the...

Internet Explorer 9 Beta-1

<p>I finally got around installing the first beta preview of Internet Explorer 9.  So far, I’m pretty impressed!</p> <p>It is pretty fast.  Is it the fastest browser?  I got no idea, but it’s fast enough:  I don’t have the feeling of slow browser experience I...

Blob Folder Sync

I’ve made a Codeplex project public:  http://blobfoldersync.codeplex.com.

There are no release yet though, as I’m still working on the code.

It’s basically a simple sync engine which synchronizes local folders with an Azure Blob Storage.

I’ve started this to get my hands dirty on Azure Storage.  I’ve learned quite a few things along the way, so I think that...