Microsoft provides at least two solution platforms in the cloud that I’ll talk about here to address some recent questions I’ve gotten. The first is Windows Azure, which is Microsoft’s premier cloud application platform. The second is Dynamics CRM Online, which I see showing signs of developing into a special case cloud-based business application environment of its own.
Technoligence has been focusing more of our business on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and xRM in recent months. We saw early on that Dynamics CRM continues to evolve into both a world class sales, marketing and service tool as well as a platform for advanced relationship management solutions. Microsoft has been making the right investments in [...]
I often hear people ask if SharePoint can be used to build public web sites. I’m currently working on yet another public facing web site built on SharePoint, so the answer is a definitive yes. More interesting questions are when and why you would use SharePoint over some other, more traditional infrastructure.
I started to compile [...]
Quick update: Ever have trouble finding obscure menu commands in the new Office 2007 Ribbon? My partner David just showed me an excellent little add-on for the Office Ribbon that comes from the Microsoft Office Labs team.
Office Ribbon Search: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/Pages/default.aspx
This adds an extra tab with a search box into the ribbon bar for Word, [...]
At least once a year I personally revisit some brilliant software development best practices outlined by Jim McCarthy at Microsoft in the mid ’90s. Not long after it was released in its original format as an internal presentation, Jim published a version in the book Dynamics of Software Development and left Microsoft to establish a [...]
