PDC09 – Day 1 – Keynotes with Ray Ozzie & Bob Muglia
PDC09 – Day 1 – Keynotes with Ray Ozzie & Bob Muglia – Live blogging
I'm sitting on the 8th row in the center in-front of the stage with 3 other coworkers from Sela waiting for Ray Ozzie to come up and started talking about S+S and the flow of changes that come since talking about Windows Azure and Office Online / Services.
The main topic for today keynote is cloud computing and the connection of multi platforms like Desktop/Netbook/Phone/TV to the cloud and its services. Looking for seamless multi screen experiences that is based on the web connectivity.
Ray keep dropping hints for Windows Phone (used be Windows Mobile) and what to expect in MIX2010 around April 2010.
Ray talked about MS commitment to the browsers war, Still putting alot of strenght in pushing IE as the main platform with Silverlight for all platforms including Windows Phone
Next the CEO of Seesmic come to show the new version of their application which is based on Silverlight 3.0 speaking about the time they saved as small company by developing in Silverlight and Managed environment and by that dropping Adobe AIR platform and releasing today their full Silverlight version.
Azure is maturing into production and as part of that all existing CTP programs are starting to close and would terminate by Jan-2010. Major part of this set is the introduction of the Azure Data Centers.
Data Centers
Azure data center is shifting from Beta to Release mode and currently there are 6 data center worldwide with 2 in North America, 2 In Europe and 2 the far east (Asia).
SQL Azure is now fully evolved DB that allow the developer to use it as if he had an instance running localing on the machine with connection to Excel for example.
Another new feature is the ability to mount a BLOB data file as VHD to the virtual machine and using Windows Azure BLOB support.
Automattic CEO that built the OpenSource WordPress framework come on stage to show up WordPress running under Windows Azure. Automattic transferred their backbone from Linux/PHP/Apache dedicate machines to Windows Azure environment running WordPress platform.
Fail blog owner come and showed how today they can handle a large peek in demand without the need to add new hardware to the backbone and receiving the performance just by changing the configuration file of the Azure site.
“Dallas”
Code name for data catalog with uniform discovering/exploring and using data This new codename is part of SQL Azure. This is a way for developers and companies to share and sell their data to other parties.
“Dallas” Data Explorer
Allow a developer to use and process the data without the need to understand the structure and start using it immediately. By using ADO.Net data services (a.k.a ASTORIA or now O.Data) allowing us to create a data proxy on the fly and add new data sources and export it directly to your application.
A very nice demo of accessing a public domain data from NASA, using the Mars Pathfinder 3rd pictures and creating a viewer application that digests that data with less than 15 rows of code.
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