Coming to PDC?  Interested in what it means to move to the cloud?  If so, you should definitely check out the PDC symposium this year.  The symposium is three sessions that wrap up the last day of the PDC - the goal of which is to "connect the dots" between everything that you'll have heard at the event, and look at ...

I wanted to share a couple of updates about the Microsoft Architecture Journal: 1.  Issue 16 has just been released to the web!  You can find it here, and can also download a PDF version of the magazine here.  The theme of issue 16 is Identity and Access, and Diego explains more about the articles in his blog post. 2.  The ...

Today we announced the dates for this year's Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum, also known as SAF.  This year we will be holding SAF on the 19th - 22nd November 2008 in San Francisco. Now in it's 7th year, SAF is one of my favorite events - a gathering of around 350 of the smartest architects across a wide range of companies, cultures, and ...

Interested in writing for the next issue of the Architecture Journal - and having your article read by over 62,000 people in multiple languages, and distributed at PDC and SAF this year?  If so, check out the call for papers from Diego Dagum.  The theme of the next issue is around distributed computing. 

It's a good question - and one that we try to answer in the current version of the Architecture Journal, aptly titled "The Role of an Architect".  There are a lot of great articles in this issue, although my favorite has to be the "A-Z guide to being an architect" by Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes. You can read the ...

When I started blogging, I made a promise that I would never write one of those posts that starts "I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a long time, but I've been really busy...".  Well, here I am writing one of those posts...  A couple of months ago I took on a new role leading the DPE platform architecture team here at Microsoft, ...

Today, Marc Mercuri, an architect in my team, launched one of the most exciting things I've seen for sometime:  RoboChamps RoboChamps is an online, virtual robotics competition that makes use of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.  The concept of the competition is to program a series of robots ...

The next issue of the Architecture Journal will be focused on Identity Architectures. As more organizations embrace a services based infrastructure, the need to manage the identities of users in an organization becomes more and more important. Issues that have been easy to manage in traditional environments need now to be considered from the ...

As you may have seen from previous posts, my team has been working on a set of materials for those that want to have the title of ''architect'' at some point in their career.  Last week we published a new set of content on MSDN:  101 x 101 articles on becoming an architect.  Think of these as a set of level 101 articles that cover ...

The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit & Reader SDK (a.k.a. the same technology that we used to build the Architecture Journal Reader) has now been released on http://www.windowsclient.net.  This is a great way to build offline, immersive, and searchable client applications that can aggregate multiple feeds into a single ...