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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 absolutely, totally, must be lockin-free. What that means if that I’m deploying my app ...

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 in the initial keynote and the number of sessions) cloud computing was the big news. This ...

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' is as much about the present as it is about the future. Mention was made of the fact ...

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 the next month, those computers would be updated to 2.0. Also that they had already upgrade 100 ...

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 to the user interface. Demos also mentioned the integration of touch and jump lists, which are ...

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 for Windows. Sinofsky (the speaker) held up his current machine, which is a 1MHz, 1GB system on ...

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 in order to be used by touch. Second, the interface with touch goes beyond using your finger as ...

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 that are part of most people's lives, which is not a surprise considering the comments about ...

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 announcements are surprisingly tame. Well, surprising by former ASP.NET standards. And not ...

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 app is a thumbnail generator. In other words, a function that could normally be provided by a ...