In today’s fast changing technology, keeping up with technological changes is a challenge. Every time we try to keep up with technology changes, technology changes again. It is never ending chase to catch up with technology and that is what makes software development even more interesting. Focus of this article is to give developers, project managers a quick view of many of new Microsoft technologies out there and help them realize the value of these new technologies. To be frank, technologies covered here are not new and some of them were introduced to IT world, 3 to 4 year ago. But in relative terms, these are still new technologies in Microsoft world as real-world projects and products might take some time to adapt to these changes in technology.