March 30, 2009 5:10 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
General Microsoft newsOn a lighter note...
PC World published a fun little piece yesterday in which they listed the 10 worst product names ever to come from Redmond. There were some...
March 25, 2009 6:28 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Azure,
Database development and architecture,
Web applicationsWhen Microsoft announced Azure at PDC last October, it was a bit late to the party. Pre-packaged cloud applications like Salesforce.com and Web-based email had been out for a while, but there were also more discrete, developer-centric tools and platforms.
One of the most well known cloud...
March 23, 2009 5:19 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET programming downloads,
Internet Explorer,
Silverlight,
Web applicationsIt's sometimes hard at a conference to see the forest for the trees. With two-hour keynotes and session after session, it's not easy to keep perspective on what's big and what's ancillary. And so, now that I'm back in Boston and recovered from the redeye, here's my take on last week.
Most of the...
March 19, 2009 7:57 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Internet Explorer,
Interoperability,
Web applicationsLAS VEGAS — The final version of Internet Explorer 8 is out, and Microsoft spent today's keynote showing off its full CSS 2.1 compliance, faster speeds and developer tools. But just as he finished...
March 16, 2009 7:12 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Azure,
cloud computing,
Web applicationsWhen MIX09 starts on Wednesday, I expect we'll be hearing a lot about Azure, the cloud computing OS and platform Microsoft announced at PDC late last year. But when the lunchtime chats turn to questions about reliability — and they always seem to — the naysayers will have another arrow...
March 4, 2009 3:29 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Programming Languages,
Oslo,
SOA developmentThis is the week of Oslo over at SearchWinDevelopment.com. On Monday, Microsoft released a new CTP of its Oslo data modeling project just as we were rolling out a tip on
