Tim O'Brien

In an industry known for seemingly endless debates about pretty much everything, the web vs. native debate seems to one of the more durable, sustainable ones, and a new round of opinion-sharing took place recently, so I thought I'd try to add some perspective here. I will talk about the role of Windows...

Yesterday, Google's Vic Gundotra proudly exclaimed that "I'm not interested in screwing over developers" as he piled on top of Dalton Caldwell's post accusing Facebook of being naughty on the platform front.   I'm not here to defend Facebook or Twitter or anyone else who takes lumps...

In January we shared some thoughts on our approach to developer events, including a commitment to come back with more on our plans for an event this coming fall. Well, here it is: our next developer conference will be this fall, and it's (again) called BUILD. It will be held on Microsoft's campus...

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The notion that non-tech-industry people should care about cloud computing continues to weasel its way into mainstream media and popular culture, most recently with a slew of stories about how last week's East Coast storms were to blame for the unscheduled downtime that affected...

There is a lot of energy and discussion these days around "big data," and most of it seems to focus on the underlying technology enablers and what you can do with them ... real-time analytics, noSQL stores, map|reduce capability, complex event processing, and a host of other technologies,...

I've been getting a lot of questions lately about how to cloud-optimize an app, essentially moving beyond architectures that look more like old-school hosting, and closer to a true realization of the utility computing dream that everyone is signing up for these days. That tells me we're still not clear...