Craig Swartz on Microsoft

Views and News for the Northern California Financial, Legal, and ISV Community

July, 2007

  • Managing my Digitized Stuff at Home

    Windows Home Server has just released, and is due in stores this fall. In the past, stuff storage, and managing/using the stuff stored has been two seperate exercises. The Home Server can be the bridge for PC uses, Xbox uses, and management of the visual...
  • The Cloud..My 21st Century Attic

    As you hear in the movie theaters...from the director of the Internet boom which would last forever...oop. Comes the everlasting, ever expanding, personal storage in the cloud. Current trend is more and more personal storage, so you dont have to worry...
  • Banks, Toasters, and Surface

    Variety is the spice of life, as the saying goes, and if you could depict our economy on a canvas, it would be a wide array of needs and those looking to fulfill them in a wide variety of ways. One local bank is actually giving toasters away with new...
  • Budget minded Service Oriented Architecture

    In the discussions related to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), one of the more common discussion points is around budgeting. Why? The first thought that generally comes to mind is a comparison between the existing point to point architecture and one...