After 2008 Microsoft organized a PDC again without waiting for two or more years, as it usually happened in the past. Right now I’m setting here in the main auditorium of Los Angeles Convention Center and watching this years keynote. Well, people around my typing on their notebooks, writing their blogs or twitting about what they see and hear.
Yesterday the first new thing happened, even before any official announcement, Microsoft Office 2010 Beta went to the MSDN Download Center. I’ve already started downloading it…
A short summary about what kind of messages I’ve got during this keynote:
Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect
- Windows Azure: One coherent model using Windows Server and System Center. Tools for developers: Windows Azure tools for Java and Eclipse, PHP application support
Guest: Matt Mullenweg, Automaitc, manufacturer of WordPress:
- Now WordPress works on Azure (oddlyspecific.com as one example)
Guest: Loic LeMear, Seesmic
- Created Silverlight prototype for a new Twitter browser. Easy to use with user lists, custom-defined columns. They are going to create a platform around this app allowing plug-in development.
Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect
- Announcement: Microsoft PinPoint for finding online Sharepoint and Exchange applications and other solutions
- Announcment: Microsoft Codename “Dallas” CTP, creating a uniform access and discovery for data, Data-as-a-Service
Don Box, Chriss Sells:
- C++ code runs on Windows Azure, they demonstrated it.
- SQL Azure is easy, SQL Management Studio 2008 R2 supports it.
Bob Muglia, President, Server and Tools Business
- Announcement: Your enterprise services connected to Windows Azure, code name “Project Sydney”
- Announcement: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role
- Announcement: Windows Azure AppFabric (Caching, Workflow Hosting, Monitoring)
- Announcement: Windows Identity Foundation RTM
Cameron Skinner:
- Demos Azure development support with VS 2010 (AppFabric, WIF)
If you can, watch the PDC Keynote video you can access from here.
Posted
Nov 17 2009, 04:52 PM
by
inovak