I just finished my assessment of our CSI track at Tech Ed, and the work done by everyone payed off!  Kudos to all of the speakers and staff for pulling through. I wish that I could have been there to educate and learn with …

I wrote the following piece with my brother Mark as my editor. We wanted it to be published in the Los Gatos Weekly in our home town in California, but unfortunately, you can only submit dry obituaries.  So here goes… a very personal post:  The Dias …

Hey everyone, George Copeland just published the reliable messaging implementation built on the WSE 3.0 community technology preview bits.  It is not supported; however, should provide a great baseline for folks that need standardized rm. Check it out and let …

Nathan has been posting code tidbits on WSE.

I have been spending an enormous amount of time preparing folks for Tech Ed and my corresponding talk.  This morning I invited my colleague, Pete McKiernan, into my office to show him my slides on MetaData.  We were laughing about the …

Tech Ed is around the corner.  I wanted to provide you an update on the distributed systems portion of Connected Systems Infrastructure track.   The track will be kicked off with a strategic briefing on Microsoft’s connected systems strategy by …

Yesterday, Kim Cameron and John Shewchuck disclosed Microsoft’s strategy for a unified identity metasystem based on the Web services protocols, WS-*.  Check out Scott Mace’s transcript of Kim’s talk on the 7 laws of identity and an articles on ZDNet. InfoCard …

Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy gave a press briefing this morning to discuss the new interoperability profile that will enable single sign-on to work for customers building on both the Web services protocols and Liberty.

It is exciting to see WS-Reliable Messaging being submitted to OASIS.  Read the press release here.  There was substantial backing by vendors, customers, and academic institutions.  Let’s hope for a steadfast ratification of the specification!

What?  How is it possible that Tech Ed is sold out so soon?  Well, I am glad I was forcing people to get their registrations in and book their hotels to staff the Connected Systems Infrastructure (CSI) track. I just gave …