This week at our semi-regular Professional Developer’s Conference, several announcements have been made regarding Microsoft’s newest foray into cloud computing, Microsoft Azure.
From the announcement:
The Azure Services Platform has been built from the ground up with interoperability in mind. With its standards-based and interoperable approach, the services platform supports multiple Internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, […]

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Building on my post from the other day, I wanted to point out that today Microsoft announced that it had been invited to join the AMQP Working Group. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol is an open specification supported by open source communities. The specification addresses the issue of enterprise messaging, which is of critical importance […]

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Last week, Microsoft’s Deputy General Counsel for IP Licensing, Horacio Gutierrez, sat down for an interview with Infoworld. I found it to be a very straightforward and understandable description of the ways Microsoft continues to evolve its approach to intellectual property to meet customer needs.
First, Some History…

As Horacio pointed out in the article, December will […]

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