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I finally had the chance to sit down with Morten at MIX11 in Las Vegas last week to discuss the work he is doing on WordPress with Windows Azure to solve some common challenges with multi-site WordPress installations using traditional hosting.In Morten's words:  "I am building a…

 The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and…

Web development has evolved over the years and the options continue to grow and become ever more complex. This week we talk with Mark Brown about some initiatives Microsoft is working on to make that easier from an Interop perspective such as PHP, Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and more. This show is…

There was lots of buzz on the Microsoft Campus this week, and we cover it all on this episode of Ping:The move to WordPressKeeping Windows Phone 7 FASTArchiving TweetsIs that you, Mr Gates?A second life for SecondLife?

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a partnership with blog specialist Automattic that will see 30 million Windows Live Spaces users upgraded and transitioned over to Wordpress.com accounts. The move doubles the size of the Wordpress.com user base which is now one of the largest free blogging platforms…

By now you’ll have probably heard that Internet Explorer 9 Beta has been released. As reported by PC World, it’s been a popular download with over 2 million installs in the first 48 hours.  IE9 comes witha host of speed and feature enhancements that users and developers alike will love. One of…

Although Chris Pendleton previously reported on a Bing Maps plugin for WordPress back in July, Johannes Kebeck of the Bing team recently came across an alternative: the Silverlight Bing Maps plugin. Developed by Regart.net, this plugin lets you install an interactive maps on your WordPress site…

Customizable, embeddable Bing Maps are now available to WordPress bloggers by way of a new plugin. The “Bing Maps for WordPress” plugin created by Rich Gubby lets you easily insert mini maps into your blog posts using a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts. You don’t have to worry about how the maps…

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms out there, can now run on SQL Server and SQL Azure thanks to a new patch made available via OmniTI. And if you’re interested in making the switch (or starting from scratch), there’s a new resource for you available from Wordpress.Visitmix.com…

In preparation for WordCamp Seattle, Windows Live Writer developer Brandon Turner created three new plugins designed to work specifically with WordPress blogs. The first plugin lets you easily change the title and tagline of your blog (by default, it reads “Just another Wordpress.com weblog”).…