Why the blog is of interest:

A lot of folks can’t get to every important event in the world of financial services. So beyond providing his owns insights into Windows architectural topics, Mike Walker, Microsoft’s finance industry architectural strategist, is leveraging his blog to supply links to slide presentations, reports, and even video clips from Windows conferences from all over the globe.

For example, if didn’t make it to Windows Server 2008 in Los Angeles – or in case you’d just like a refresher on the topics discussed – you can link from Mike’s blog to video presentations from the show about virtualization, kernel advances, power management, and much more.

Elsewhere on Joe’s site, you can access reports and other resources about other recent activities ranging from the Microsoft Financial Services Development Conference in New York City to the Japan Strategic Architecture Forum in – where else? – Japan.

But the offerings on Mike’s site don’t stop with events. In another recent post, for instance, he provides demos around the use of new Windows components in reference architectures for insurance claims processing and capital markets structured procedures, complete with workflow demos.

"Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture" is a very resourceful site indeed.

To view the video from the Windows Server 2008 launch, click on the link below.

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