Guy Barrette
Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada
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Great Talk by David Chappell
David Chappell’s Dutch DevDays talk called “The Microsoft Application Platform: A perspective” is available on Channel9. This is a must see talk where Chappell expresses his opinion on a number of topics like:
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Microsoft Contributing to the Linux Kernel – Panic in da house!
Mary-Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has submitted some 20,000 lines of drivers code for the Linux kernel.
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HBO’s The Alzheimer’s Project
Note: This post deals with personal matters but may help other people.
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Chrome OS - Gary Short’s Opinion
I just came across a great blog post by Gary Short of Developer Express who shares his opinion about the Google Chrome OS announcement. What I really like is the last chapter:
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Parallel Computing on Azure
Interesting blog post from May-Jo Foley where she writes about parallel computing projects from Microsoft Research called Dryad and DryadLINQ and how Microsoft envision them to run on Azure.
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WPC – Azure Quickstart
Microsoft has created an Azure resource portal for partners:
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Void in Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan and the Province of Quebec
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What is Windows Azure – Fun Intro Video
Here’s a fun video made by Steve Marx explaining what Azure is. What’s fun about it? Steve drew the whole thing.
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Azure Pricing
Microsoft announced part of the Azure pricing model in this blog post. When they revealed Azure at PDC08, Microsoft said that the pricing model would be competitive (read: on par with Amazon Web Services). A quick Azure/AWS comparison confirms that.
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Windows 7: when, when, when?
According to the Brandon LeBlanc who posted an update on the Windows Blog, Windows 7 will RTM in July. Looks like we won’t be able to upgrade from RC to RTM. I wonder if the previous trick (Beta to RC) will work.