If you've been reading Andrew Brust's Redmond Review columns and Redmond Diary blog, you know that he's expressed concern about the complexity of the Microsoft development stack.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2010
I remember a time, not that many years ago, when I doubted Microsoft's bet-the-company strategy around .NET. For all its breadth, the impetus for the Microsoft .NET Framework wasn't breathtaking innovation.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2010
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Microsoft takes a popular application, builds it out into a platform, then refines and extends the opportunities for developers to code against it.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2010
By almost any metric, Visual Studio 2010 is a big release.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2010
Taking place March 15-17, MIX offers an exclusive developer focus on Web, rich media, and dev/design issues and technologies.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
A few months back, VSM columnist Andrew Brust wrote about Microsoft moving away from building the type of products that fueled its early success.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2009
Since announcing the Microsoft Interoperability Initiative early last year, we've seen the company move in a consistent and tangible direction toward greater openness, cooperation and interoperability.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2009
Windows 7 has gone RTM and seems poised undo much of the damage Windows Vista has wrought. Is it time to start developing for Windows 7?
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2009
You pick the best of the best in 2009.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2009
The language behind WPF is starting to gain momentum, thanks in large part to Silverlight.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
How is your organization weathering the downturn?
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2009
Visual Studio now supports myriad development platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2009