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One of the more farsighted thoughts on the implications of cloud computing is the concern about vendor lock-in. Tim Bray mentioned it in his Get in the Cloud post Big Issue · I mean a really big issue: if cloud computing is going to take off, it
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So it's the last few hours of PDC for this year. Which means that pretty much all of the information that can be shoved into my brain has been. It also means that it's a pretty decent moment to be summarizing what I've learned. Obviously (from its presence
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I just got out of the WPF Roadmap talk. I found the future for WPF less interesting that the present, although that could very well because the speed of innovation coming from that group has been very high over the past couple of years. In fact, the 'roadmap'
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I'm sure that you know that Silverlight was released a couple of weeks ago. ScottGu made an interesting comment indicating that Silverlight (that would be 1.0 or 1.1) was installed on 1 in 4 computers that are connected to the Internet. And that over
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The presenter for the development changes related to .NET and Windows 7 is ScottGu. Who else? First off, Microsoft will be releasing a WPF ribbon control later this week. That is very nice, especially since the ribbon is the new hotness when it comes
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A couple of notes on how Windows 7 will improve O/S and application performance and some additional features. If you reduce the granularity of a timer, you can improve power consumption. They are trying to reduce the memory and processor requirements
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First off, I find touch cool. I couldn't really use it to do my work, but I love the possibilities for improving user experiences. Windows 7 has built in support for touch in a number of ways. First, applications don't need to explicitly support touch
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The starting point for his presentation was to talk about how the Internet has become ubiquitous. And how there is a benefit to having proximity between the hardware, the software and the user. He also mentioned the phone as one of the software platforms
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One way that you can tell that a product is getting more mature by the type of features that are included with new release. By this measure, ASP.NET is getting to be positively adult like. I just sat through the session on ASP.NET 4.0 futures. The main
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The first session that talked about Azure was (not surprisingly) incredibly popular. Filled a room that looked like it seated 700+ people. Then filled an overflow room. And the second overflow room is pack with people standing at the back. The sample
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One of the more interesting questions that will arise from cloud computer in general and Azure specifically is how the connection with on-premises data will be maintained. Based on what I saw in the keynote, they appear to have the link to Active Directory
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Get ready to hear about the 'Fabric controller'. In a cloud computer environment, the fabric controller is the "O/S". It is responsible for managing the services that you have configured. Modeling your services The first step is to model your
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If you're looking for a set of links that provide more info on Windows Azure, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/2008/10/27/bookmarks-windows-azure.aspx
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Today's focus is on the back-end innovations. The client conversation/demos will be done at tomorrow's keynote. In other words, this is the 'cloud' talk. The content of the first portion of his talk is about the convergence of IT Pro and IT Dev functions.
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I'm writing this while at 35,000 feet, winging my way to PDC in Los Angeles. This is actually my first PDC so I'm looking forward to it. I've been to Tech Ed and Mix in the past, but have never made it to a PDC. How can anything bad happen while I'm surrounded
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