Editor's Note: Beginnings and Endings

Changes are coming to MSDN Magazine. They begin this month, with the unveiling of a number of new, monthly columns.Keith WardMSDN Magazine February 2010

Microsoft made a big Azure splash at its Professional Developer's Conference last fall. An overheard conversation gives insight on how developers see the potential of the cloud.Keith WardMSDN Magazine January 2010

Diego DagumMSDN Magazine December 2009

This month's issue of MSDN Magazine takes a look at some of the new features and tools in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 that will continue improving the experience of creating business applications that run on the Microsoft Office platform. This is an area of software development that holds tremendous potential in terms of solving the right problems-those being the business problems. To get to the next step of really transforming the manner in which business is conducted, highly domain-specific functionality must be developed below the metaphorical surface-and thus can only be meaningfully implemented by you.Howard DierkingMSDN Magazine October 2009

This month, Howard Dierking explores the value of maintaining a few discrete technology interests in order to avoid being swept away in a sea of buzzwords and new technologies.Howard DierkingMSDN Magazine September 2009

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Howard DierkingMSDN Magazine June 2009

This month Editor-in-Chief Howard Dierking comes down from Cloud 9 when he realizes that employing cloud services is less about magic and more about planning. Take a few tips from his recent experiences.Howard DierkingMSDN Magazine May 2009

From fat to thin to fat again--Howard Dierking chronicles the dieting habits of a Web client and the technologies that continue to fuel the shifts.Howard DierkingMSDN Magazine April 2009