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Microsoft has many areas of interest for you to take a look at - clearly creating WPF and Silverlight versions or editions of your current products is a good idea. With Windows now running on 64-bit platforms more frequently, I am sure you have heard demand from your customers to test and support your product on 64-bit architectures. We have seen this demand for some very mature ActiveX / COM based products, as well as for newer .NET offerings. So WPF, Silverlight, 64-bit, support for Windows 7, tools & Web parts that work with SharePoint are all obvious areas to investigate and work on now.
But what about other new areas? Have you looked at Azure yet? Is there a demand and hence a market for your products if they work with Azure? And what are you doing about exploring the idea of creating, testing and supporting an edition of your product that works with Azure?
Azure - Getting Started:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/getstarted/
Azure - SDKs and Downloads:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2274a0a8-5d37-4eac-b50a-e197dc340f6f&displaylang=en
Heard of Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI testing? Testing of applications that use components can be difficult for customers because the components may have varied approaches to how they support testing. In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has tried to standardize the way that functional testing, recording and playback is done for: WinForms, ASP.NET and WPF - with no doubt Silverlight coming soon too!
To enable this functionality, the components can use an accessibility API for each of their UI controls. For WPF this is called UIA, for WinForms this is called MSAA. Another approach is for you to build control handlers for each component and you can also build extensions to the Visual Studio 2010 UI Test Framework which will allow your customers to record and playback their UI tests more easily. This enhances the overall quality of your components and increases the likelihood of BIG multi-unit license orders from large corporations or major organizations - as you will help meet their QA & testing needs more readily.
Get started by looking at this MSDN resource page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff398055(v=VS.100).aspx
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Technology News
The Register reports on the latest record quarterly results from Microsoft:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/23/microsoft_q4_year_ended_june_2010/
ComponentSource US News
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