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All about Microsoft - Nov 21, 2008
There are lots of moving parts to Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. One of the less-flashy but much needed pieces of plumbing is .Net Services, codenamed "Zurich." If there's a "Mr. Zurich" at Microsoft, that person …
Also tagged: development tools, azure, pdc 2008, utility cloud computing, live mesh, microsoft big brains
All about Microsoft - Oct 30, 2008
Microsoft provided attendees of its Professional Developer Conference this week with a 160 GB drive full of bits and resources. The Windows 7 M3 pre-beta build and Windows Server 2008 R2 M3 pre-beta are on the drives …
Also tagged: robotics, development tools, azure, silverlight wpf e, pdc 2008, utility cloud computing, visual studio 10 hawaii
All about Microsoft - Oct 29, 2008
Now that the initial Microsoft PDC pixie dust has settled, developers are trying to digest exactly what Microsoft's cloud platform is. Here's my attempt to explain it.
Also tagged: virtualization, windows server, azure, corporate strategy, windows server 2008 windows server longhorn, pdc 2008, utility cloud computing, windows server 2008 r2 windows 7 server
All about Microsoft - Oct 24, 2008
How many times in the past year have I asked about a product, a service or a strategy to be told by Microsoft officials: "Just wait till the PDC. We'll explain all"? Finally, that promised "tell-all" date is here …
Also tagged: research, windows live, windows client, robotics, development tools, oslo, silverlight wpf e, windows 7, corporate strategy, pdc 2008, visual studio 10 hawaii
All about Microsoft - Oct 14, 2008
Microsoft announced, as expected, on Monday that the second version of its Silverlight browser plug-in is done and will be available imminently for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Internet …
Also tagged: windows mobile, apple, google, linux, development tools, channel, resellers, expression studio, silverlight wpf e, visual studio 2008 orcas, corporate strategy, system builders, oems, pdc 2008
All about Microsoft - Oct 11, 2008
It's been tricky keeping separate all of the "layers" in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. But now Live Services is a little clearer, thanks to a new Web …
Also tagged: web 2 0, virtualization, search, windows live, management tools, development tools, corporate strategy, pdc 2008, utility cloud computing, live mesh
All about Microsoft - Oct 11, 2008
Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology …
Also tagged: development tools, oslo, code names, corporate strategy, pdc 2008, visual studio 10 hawaii
All about Microsoft - Oct 8, 2008
Nice find by blogger Kit Ong (which I saw via Long Zheng): Microsoft's cloud operating system platform is named -- or at least codenamed -- "Windows Strata."
Also tagged: web 2 0, virtualization, windows server, code names, corporate strategy, pdc 2008, utility cloud computing, live mesh
All about Microsoft - Oct 2, 2008
In conjunction with the rollout of its next-generation .Net Framework 4.0 release, Microsoft is readying a new distributed application server, code-named "Dublin."
Also tagged: windows server, development tools, oslo, dynamics crm, corporate strategy, dynamics erp, pdc 2008, visual studio 10 hawaii
All about Microsoft - Oct 1, 2008
Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing. But the next release of Windows client and server also are going to incorporate …
Also tagged: research, windows server, windows client, robotics, code names, windows 7, corporate strategy, pdc 2008, multicore distributed computing, windows server 2008 r2 windows 7 server