Ah, this is a tough question! As I mentioned yesterday, I was in Microsoft Office in Montreal for the PDC keynote diffusion after which there was a discussion about the keynote. The room was filled mainly with freelancers and small company consultants (that is quite typical for a Montreal crowd actually). More than half of … More HTML 5 or Silverlight?
Today was the first day of the PDC 2010. Microsoft hosts events all around the world, inviting local partners, where they broadcast the PDC keynotes and have a discussion around that afterwards. I was in such an event in Montreal. Steve Ballmer was delivering the keynotes with many Microsoft stars delivering portions and demos (e.g. … More PDC 2010 Keynotes
Five years ago, Ray Ozzie, newly arrived at Microsoft, released his famous memo. In his vision, he showed a transformational path for his company: Software + Services. Despite Ray leaving Microsoft, he just wrote a new memo: dawn of a new day. In this new memo he once again conjure a vision for his company: … More Ray Ozzie’s October 2010 Memo
Starting in early 2010, what was previously known as BPOS version 2 or Union will be available as Office 365. The name should reflect the availability of the platform (which suffered some reputation step back this summer). Today the beta is released, available to a 1000+ customers worldwide. Among the features of the new versions … More BPOS is dead, long live Office 365
Ray Ozzy is stepping down the Chief Software Architect role at Microsoft. He’s going to leave Microsoft in the short future. Steve Balmer isn’t naming a new Chief Software Architect for the moment. Since Bill Gates left Microsoft, the company has been running from one re-org to the other. For instance, earlier in October … More The end the Chief Software Architect title @ Microsoft?
A quick note about Microsoft’s contributions to jQuery (namely XYZ): they are now official plug-ins! We’ve read several months ago about the contributions of Microsoft to jQuery, that is, Globalization, Templates and Data Linking. Those plug-ins bring a programming model relatively close to Microsoft WPF (or Silverlight) but quite in line with jQuery. It also … More Microsoft’s jQuery contributions as official plug-ins
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