Windows Phone 7, although struggling out of the gate, is poised for big things.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2011
After nearly a full year in beta, Microsoft yesterday released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. Andrew Brust explains why LightSwitch defies categorization and is a lot more than just another framework-based tool for generating code.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/27/2011
Andrew Brust on Microsoft's whistle-stop demo tour.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/01/2011
On Nov. 2, 2001, Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) reached a settlement in the antitrust action against Redmond. The terms of that decree expired in May.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/01/2011
Microsoft's needs to make its cutting-edge products and research more visible if it hopes to capture young organizations that today often align with the LAMP stack.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2011
As I write this, this year's MVP Summit just ended, and before it even started, I knew I'd write this month's column about it.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2011
As with any big shift in technology, a lot is at stake for developers. No one wants to make significant investments of money, attention and free time on something that will be a mere flash in the pan -- or even a stable, yet niche, technology.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2011
Microsoft's current and former CEOs have opened the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for years. But Android's popularity at the show should push Microsoft to do something innovative on the tablet front.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/01/2011
Every once in a while, Microsoft toys with the idea of taking its dev tools cross-platform.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/01/2011
BizTalk Server is a blockbuster product, but it's also a sleeper. Andrew Brust explains why BizTalk could be headed for big things in the cloud.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/01/2010
Is Microsoft helping HTML5 and the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack harm its own products and market position? Historically, Microsoft has struck a delicate balance in melding homegrown and external technologies into a cohesive stack and a winning strategy.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2010
In a Redmond Review column last year ("What's Old Is New Again," April 2009), I discussed a move by Microsoft to reform its then-named SQL Data Services (SDS).
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/01/2010
I've said it before: the Microsoft .NET Framework is too complex.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2010
Microsoft knows HTML5 is coming, and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) needs to implement it or face irrelevance.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2010
When searching for a "forms over data" applications contender, SharePoint just might be your best bet.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/01/2010