So this is kind of a live blogging from the PDC09’s keynote.

Bottom line, as I’ve suspected no big announcements in today’ss keynote. But… it might be for the best, Microsoft focuses on maturing many projects that were discussed on last year PDC. Windows Azure starts to gain momentum with customers using it and driving feedbacks to the team, and as with this timing Azure is about to get into production state, some projects are already starting on getting online for production versions, projects such as WordPress, KBB, and many more important vendors.

Microsoft made an emphasis on widening there support for Azure, making sure tools are supportive and every aspect of Azure application development. A field which really shines is the data layer, SQL Azure interact beautifully with SQL management studio, and wizards let developers rapidly but there stuff on the cloud.

As many of my colleagues have covered the keynote, I will add that while might not be suitable for PDC materials, Microsoft has not rushed out another technology firing blindly, or at competitors that are ahead in the game, but invests in bringing the audience together. Microsoft are long time being crtizied as running quickly ahead while the customer are still struggling, it might be the case with Silverlight/WPF issues that a major share of customer still uses Win32 and Winforms.

Ariel