Keith Ward discusses his new position, and has questions for Microsoft's upcoming BUILD conference.
Microsoft faces new threats today, like smartphones and tablets, but are they more severe than past ones?
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2011
In this month's editor's column, Mike Desmond looks at the Silverlight issue.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2011
When Scott Guthrie, former corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, left the Developer Division to head up a new Windows Azure business unit, I was more than concerned.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2011
Bigger is better. At least, that seems to be the philosophy at the Microsoft Developer Division.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2011
A year ago this month Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, the most significant update to the company's IDE and code framework since .NET was first released in 2002.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2011
Every year we survey our readership to better understand who we're serving, and set the direction of our coverage in VSM and on the VisualStudioMagazine.com Web site.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2011
IDC last month released a report examining the uptake of Windows Phone 7 mobile devices and application development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2011
With all the activity around mobile and Web technologies, it's easy to think that Microsoft might take its eye off the ball in the area of line-of-business (LOB) development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2011
If there's one constant in the world of Visual Studio development, it's change.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2010
This year marks the 18th annual Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2010
A lot of people regard Apple and Microsoft as two sides of the same, cynical coin.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2010
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