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Read all about our vision for Unified Communications as the forma launch kicks off in Bill"s latest executive email to customers.

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2007/10-16unifiedcommunications.mspx

"The Age of Software-Powered Communications"

DLR、そしてIronPython2.0、IronRubyが採用するライセンスであるMicrosoft Public License(MS-PL、元々はPermisiveだったのがPublicに名称変更されています)がOSIで承認されました。

オープンソースライセンスになったことで開発に協力していただける方達が、増えることを祈っています。

PS:IronPythonは2.0A5がリリースされています。2.0A5に対応したFePyのIPCE R6もリリースされています。

Visual Studio 2008 は開発環境としてマルチ プロセッサ／マルチコアプロセッサの能力を最大限活用することができます。

いくつか制約があるものの、ビルドにおいては、プロセッサごとにプロセスを分けて実行することができるようになります。たとえば、プロセッサが2つあるコンピュータにおいては、ビルドのプロセスを2つ実行させることができるといった具合です。

詳細については、下記の URL で解説 (現状は英語) がありますので、ご参考ください

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/bb383805(VS.90).aspx

最近，在Internet上搜索，除了Tim Chen的离开外，涉及到Microsoft最多的就是关于微软的“软件+服务”的战略，而且各家媒体从不同的角度对微软的S+S战略作了说明，可惜除了引证Ray Ozzia以及StevenB的只言片语外，给外人的感觉仍然是一头雾水。

从我的理解来看，微软的S+S包含两个层次。

微软所指的软件加服务，一是指网络服务，二则指微软安装在计算机上的软件

具体来说，有三种：第一，MS提供可以提供服务 的基础架构平台，例如LH+IIS7，用户可以在这上面自己定义和定制、部署自己的服务；其二，MS以及MS的partner/客户可以部署微软的系统，而这些系统为第三方服务，例如Exchage Hosting；第三，MS提供面向客户的服务例如Live等。

这是第一层次的微软的软件+服务，在第二层次上，我认为是“复合应用”，引用Ray的一段话：“

Software + Services is Microsoft’s approach for the next generation of computing. By bringing together the best of both software and services, we maximize capabilities, choice and flexibility for our customers. The power of local client and/or server software combined with the community and always up-to-date nature of services will beat software-only or service-only approaches. The broad Software + Services approach unites multiple industry phenomena including software-as-a-service, service-oriented development and Web 2.0 under a common umbrella. The entire industry is converging on a Software + Services approach, with different vendors approaching it from different starting points.”

从这段话可以看出，S+S融合了Web2.0、SOA、SaaS等概念，涵盖的是从用户体验、软件的部署、系统联合、应用的复合以及软件经济等各方面的大概念。

用户体验：例如通过Live、OBA等方式，将用户体验从客户端到浏览器、从桌面到移动终端等；

系统的部署：SaaS，解决系统delivery的新的模式；

系统联合：SOA的经典，解决数据、services、流程在不同的组织、不同系统的互联

应用复合：应该是一个新的方面，扩大了SOA的外延，将系统之间的集成 从后端的服务集成、数据的集成、流程的继承一直延伸到前段的客户体验，OBA就是一非常好的实践。顺便说一句，应用复合的提出，让响应SOA的人群看到了希望，相信对目前对SOA仅7%的满意率的比例会带来极大的提高。

软件经济：以salesforce为代表的新的软件经济模式

可以想象，在S+S的阳光下，未来的应用应该是这样：客户可以通过移动终端，随时check mail，同时，在邮件中通过集成的应用，完成对订单的处理而不用去专业的系统中，再通过调用UPS的快递服务，完成发货的处理。在发货以后，通过GPS或者RFID等，在Virtual Erath上实时地监测货物的到达情况。每天，通过终端，直接使用Excel Service，完成对销售的分析。

 Bill Gs latest update on the new software powered communication had some comments on this Microsoft Office RoundTable device which I had never really heard of - I did a Live Search and found this blog by Tom Keating that gives us a pretty good review of what it does. Other notes - a $5.0 Million dollar saving internally by Microsoft by moving to this solution.

The RoundTable Picture

It"s been about 10 months since we started publishing Office Visual How-tos (VHTs), which is a compound content type, mixing a short how-to article, code samples, and a video of that code sample in action. The wealth of this content type is that you can watch a quick video to visualize how a feature works and then you can read conceptual information and grab a code sample. We also provide a list of related resources for further reading and learning.

Here"s a sample VHT: Setting Conditional Formatting in Excel 2007 and here"s a pointer to a blog entry where I explained the project in detail. I am happy to share that we have published more than 100 VHTs. We have been lucky to have well-known MVPs and experts collaborate with us and contribute some VHT. A few names come to mind: David Gerhardt, John Peltonen, Ken Getz, Patrick Tisseghem, Ted Pattison, Joel Krist, Steven Hansen, and many other Microsoft programmer writers and product team members.

Another interesting fact is that the VHT content plan attempted to cover most relevant developer features of the different 2007 Microsoft Office system products, servers, services, tools, and technologies. We worked very hard to cover as many MOSS, WSS, Office Core, Office Client, and VSTO code samples. I pulled some numbers from our editorial calendar this morning to track the distribution of available VHTs by product and here"s how content looks like today:

The Office Developer How To Center provides a list of available VHT by title. Because we have so many articles to promote, it"s getting hard to list all on the MSDN Office Developer Center. To help a bit with discoverability, I built a quick html image map to help you find VHTs by product. Just use the image below and click the product name to go to the MSDN Library node where we list all VHTs by product.

We are interested in getting your feedback and comments. You can rate the articles and send comments using the Click to Rate and Give Feedback link located at the top right corner of the MSDN Library. We have a system that helps us track comments and ratings for every technical article and content asset living under the Office Development node of the MSDN Library. We hope you find this content useful and if you find errors in code or broken links, please let us know so we can fix them! Feedback is always appreciated. In fact, here"s a few nice comments for VHT content that we pulled last week:

• "Great example of simple but hard to find technique."
• "Super video - short and precise :)"
• "Thanks for the lovely article...!!!!!! You people have solved my greatest problem"
• "Thank you for this! It"s the first article I"ve found with all the required information needed to create associations and is also in a readable format."
• "It was an awesome Video which helped me out a lot!!"
• "Great content, bridging IT concepts and Dev experience."
• "This is great in learning Office 2007"
• "Haven"t tried it yet but this is EXACTLY what I was looking for!"

Finally, some people would like to have the videos available in Zune and IPod format, so we will start looking into this soon.

BPIO University 2 Day Workshop - Sales Track for Partners

This 2 day interactive workshop – targeted at Partners participating in the BPIO Campaigns – has as its outcomes:

·     to provide an overview understanding of the BPIO Campaign

·     to provide some relevant sales and marketing knowledge/skills/processes to assist Partners generate and convert leads relevant to the BPIO Campaign

·     point Partners towards a range of resources to assist them to capitalise on the opportunity provided by the BPIO Campaign.

By using tools made available by Microsoft to work with customers to understand their current level of optimisation, Partners can work with their customers to plan a path to achieve the highest level of business productivity infrastructure optimisation.

The BPIO University targets a number of solution areas including:

·     unified communications

·     collaboration

·     enterprise content management

·     enterprise search

·     business intelligence

This course will also supply you with all of the materials and tools you need to expedite the sales process and close deals faster.

REGISTER NOW https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=300213&linvitation

1 Day Jump-Start on Collaboration (MOSS), Enterprise Content Management and Search - Technical

The Jump-start is an interactive training session which provides you with the technical introduction and understanding of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), Enterprise Content Management and Microsoft Search from an architectural and solution overview perspective. The session is an Instructor led “chalk & talk” and does not include any hands-on technical labs.

These sessions are ideal if you are a technical person needing to cross train your Microsoft skills and gain an understanding of how these technologies work together in an overall solution. These sessions are led by an experienced ‘in the field’ instructor to give you the fast track introduction and guidance you need as part of your skills enablement roadmap.

Audience: Technical Pre-sales, Architects new to these technologies, Technical Consultants & System Engineers needing to cross train.

Technical Level: 200

Topics covered:

· A lap around the architectural landscape – The Microsoft 2007 Office System

· Understanding MOSS 2007 – features out of the box

· Collaboration Overview

· Understanding Enterprise Content Management – what this means to your business

· Enterprise Search capabilities

· Architecting a business solution so that its data is included in the Enterprise Search experience

· An overall solution summary

REGISTER NOW https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=799160&linvitation

1 Day Jump-Start on Unified Communication (Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server) - Technical

The Jump-start is an interactive training session which provides you with the technical introduction and understanding of Unified Communication, Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server from an architectural and solution overview perspective.  The session is an Instructor led “chalk & talk” and does not include any hands-on technical labs.

These sessions are ideal if you are a technical person needing to cross train your Microsoft skills and gain an understanding of how these technologies work together in an overall solution. These sessions are led by an experienced ‘in the field’ instructor to give you the fast track introduction and guidance you need as part of your skills enablement roadmap.

Audience: Technical Pre-sales, Architects new to these technologies, Technical Consultants & System Engineers needing to cross train.

Technical Level: 200

Topics covered:

· A lap around the architectural landscape – The Microsoft Unified Communication story

· Understanding Exchange 2007 – features out of the box

· Unified Messaging Overview

· Understanding Office Communication Server – what this means to your business

· Integration with Exchange 2007

· Office Communication Server capabilities and architecting a solution

· An overall solution summary

REGISTER NOW https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=371999&linvitation

1 Day Jump-Start on Business Intelligence and Performance Point Server

The Jump-start is an interactive training session which provides you with the technical introduction and understanding of Business Intelligence and Performance Point Sever from an architectural and solution overview perspective.  The session is an Instructor led “chalk & talk” and does not include any hands-on technical labs.

These sessions are ideal if you are a technical person needing to cross train your Microsoft skills and gain an understanding of how these technologies work together in an overall solution. These sessions are led by an experienced ‘in the field’ instructor to give you the fast track introduction and guidance you need as part of your skills enablement roadmap.

Audience: Technical Pre-sales, Architects new to these technologies, Technical Consultants & System Engineers needing to cross train.

Technical Level: 200

Topics covered:

· A lap around the architectural landscape – The Microsoft Business Intelligence story

· Understanding Performance Point Server 2007 – features out of the box

· Architecting Performance Management solutions

· An overall solution summary

REGISTER NOW https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=723236&linvitation

In past 2 weeks many potential partners and customers have asked me about evaluation version of BizTalk Server 2006 R2. You can download it at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb738071.aspx

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Please feel free to send me your feedback. Enjoy

One of my colleagues and fellow Developer Evangelist, Michael S. Scherotter has recorded and made available a screen cast that shows you how to embed a Virtual Earth technology into a Groove Workspace.

Click here to go to the video.

~ Robert Shelton