PDC 2009 – Day 1, Keynote

November 17th, 2009

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Wow! PDC 2009 kicked off with a big bang of announcements galore today. Here is my list of notes that I captured from today’s keynote. As you can surmise, I’m not the best note taker in the world. I’ve always suffered this problem all the way back to College. If you have any tips for my on how to take better notes, please send them my way. Anyhow, here’s the diatribe from today…

  • Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie
    • Building on the Software+Services strategy; How we’ve built on that promise
    • 3 Screens and a Cloud
    • Win7 opens renewed developer opportunities on the client. that power has been under utilized
    • We’ll work to make Internet Explorer the best browser for Windows without compromise
  • Loic LeMeur (Seesmic)
    • Want Seesmic to be available on every device
    • The Silverlight vision really fits into our plan
    • Created a prototype w/Silverlight and was really surprised on how fast we could put it together
    • Will ship Silverlight version soon
    • Shipping today Seesmic for Windows; very smooth, very fast
    • Taking advantage of Win7; sensor for location
    • #1 request, Seesmic for Windows will be a platform for plug-in development
  • Back to Ray
    • Azure Launches
      • Nov. 17th, Feature complete
      • Jan. 1st, Production
      • Feb. 1st, customer billing begins
    • Features that go live today:
      • Single Sign-on
      • Project templates out-of-box in Visual Studio 2010
      • Multiple sizes of VMs
      • FastCGI (Zend Framework, MySQL, Java, php, eclipse)
    • XDrive, Azure Storage blobs that are mountable as NTFS drives
    • SQL Azure, true database a service, simply create a new database when you need a new one (don’t need to think about memory, disaster recovery, etc. It’s all automatic); Support for ADO.NET, ODBC, JDBC
    • A handful of companies will go-live today…
    • Announcing: Microsoft PinPoint, unified catalog of business apps and services targeted at developers and IT. Utilize our Platform as a Service to grow your business.
    • Announcing: Codename “Dallas”, open catalog and marketplace for Data. Commercial and Public data. Uniformed way to discover data, Uniformed licensing; data as a service, Catalyze a whole new way of remixing and presenting data
      • Taking the friction out of discovering, exploring and using data
      • Some public data sources, some commercial: Associated Press, Citysearch, DATA.gov, infoUSA, NASA, National Geographic TOPO!, NAVTEQ
      • Subscriptions to data consumption
      • Explore the dataset, REST-based data consumption
      • Import into Excel through PowerPivot
      • OpenData protocol, (ADO.NET Data Services = OData); Build a service proxy from Dallas
      • Apps and innovation around public data
      • Inconsistency in data formats (CSV, XML, etc.); “Dallas” brings consistency to the data format
    • Vivek Kundra, CIO, U.S. Federal Govt
      • NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
        • Data that has been democratized; slice and dice, cube the Martian rover data; on Windows Azure
      • Challenge developers to innovate and open up services to the thousands of government data feeds; Data on education, healthcare, energy, jobs
      • Explore building new apps with public domain data and content
  • Bob Muglia
    • Bing created a solution called “Autopilot”
      • manage operations with minimal human intervention
      • foundation for work to manage Azure data centers
    • Don and Chris show
      • C++ code running in the cloud
    • Kelly Blue Book, running on Azure
    • Announcing: “Project Sydney”, connect your on-premise servers to Azure-based instances
    • Announcing: Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1
      • a set of integrated, high-level application services that enable developers to more easily deploy and manage applications spanning both server and cloud
      • a platform for building scale-out middle-tier services; WCF, WF, database cache, automatic failover and scale-out
      • hosting (“Dublin”) and caching (“Velocity”) technologies
      • .NET Services is now “AppFabric Service Bus” and “AppFabric Access Control”
    • Announcing: ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta 1

 

Here is the press releases from today’s announcements:

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