Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center. Image credit: Eternal Code
Steve B was at Moscow State University earlier today and he did exclaim his now signature three booms. During his speech at the university, SteveB focused on Microsoft’s cloud push. While talking about how Microsoft sees infrastructure a problem the developer shouldn’t be bothered with, he said that while working on Bing Microsoft realized this:
We need to improve the agility of software developers to be creative and innovative by separating the IT work that goes on in the datacenter from the work that goes on in the development community.
We learned this frankly the hard way as we built our Bing search service. Bing is literally hundreds of thousands of servers. We can’t have people saying, “Oh, I have to configure a new server; oh, I’ve got to manage a sever; oh, what if we’re going to take some workload and move it to a new datacenter, I’ve got to reconfigure the network.” We had to build an infrastructure that was self-managing and self-provisioning and that developers could do things against instantaneously.
A smarter, self adapting infrastructure based on requirement is what SteveB is talking about. At PDC10, Pixar demonstrated their CGI animation application – RenderMan on Azure and the animators had servers at their disposal.
SteveB also asked students to friend him on Facebook. The complete transcript of the speech can be found here.
PS: No mention of Silverlight or HTML5.
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Bing – The Eye Opener For Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy
Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center. Image credit: Eternal Code
Steve B was at Moscow State University earlier today and he did exclaim his now signature three booms. During his speech at the university, SteveB focused on Microsoft’s cloud push. While talking about how Microsoft sees infrastructure a problem the developer shouldn’t be bothered with, he said that while working on Bing Microsoft realized this:
We need to improve the agility of software developers to be creative and innovative by separating the IT work that goes on in the datacenter from the work that goes on in the development community.
We learned this frankly the hard way as we built our Bing search service. Bing is literally hundreds of thousands of servers. We can’t have people saying, “Oh, I have to configure a new server; oh, I’ve got to manage a sever; oh, what if we’re going to take some workload and move it to a new datacenter, I’ve got to reconfigure the network.” We had to build an infrastructure that was self-managing and self-provisioning and that developers could do things against instantaneously.
A smarter, self adapting infrastructure based on requirement is what SteveB is talking about. At PDC10, Pixar demonstrated their CGI animation application – RenderMan on Azure and the animators had servers at their disposal.
SteveB also asked students to friend him on Facebook. The complete transcript of the speech can be found here.
PS: No mention of Silverlight or HTML5.
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Bing – The Eye Opener For Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy
Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center. Image credit: Eternal Code
Steve B was at Moscow State University earlier today and he did exclaim his now signature three booms. During his speech at the university, SteveB focused on Microsoft’s cloud push. While talking about how Microsoft sees infrastructure a problem the developer shouldn’t be bothered with, he said that while working on Bing Microsoft realized this:
We need to improve the agility of software developers to be creative and innovative by separating the IT work that goes on in the datacenter from the work that goes on in the development community.
We learned this frankly the hard way as we built our Bing search service. Bing is literally hundreds of thousands of servers. We can’t have people saying, “Oh, I have to configure a new server; oh, I’ve got to manage a sever; oh, what if we’re going to take some workload and move it to a new datacenter, I’ve got to reconfigure the network.” We had to build an infrastructure that was self-managing and self-provisioning and that developers could do things against instantaneously.
A smarter, self adapting infrastructure based on requirement is what SteveB is talking about. At PDC10, Pixar demonstrated their CGI animation application – RenderMan on Azure and the animators had servers at their disposal.
SteveB also asked students to friend him on Facebook. The complete transcript of the speech can be found here.
PS: No mention of Silverlight or HTML5.
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Bing – The Eye Opener For Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy
Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center. Image credit: Eternal Code
Steve B was at Moscow State University earlier today and he did exclaim his now signature three booms. During his speech at the university, SteveB focused on Microsoft’s cloud push. While talking about how Microsoft sees infrastructure a problem the developer shouldn’t be bothered with, he said that while working on Bing Microsoft realized this:
We need to improve the agility of software developers to be creative and innovative by separating the IT work that goes on in the datacenter from the work that goes on in the development community.
We learned this frankly the hard way as we built our Bing search service. Bing is literally hundreds of thousands of servers. We can’t have people saying, “Oh, I have to configure a new server; oh, I’ve got to manage a sever; oh, what if we’re going to take some workload and move it to a new datacenter, I’ve got to reconfigure the network.” We had to build an infrastructure that was self-managing and self-provisioning and that developers could do things against instantaneously.
A smarter, self adapting infrastructure based on requirement is what SteveB is talking about. At PDC10, Pixar demonstrated their CGI animation application – RenderMan on Azure and the animators had servers at their disposal.
SteveB also asked students to friend him on Facebook. The complete transcript of the speech can be found here.
PS: No mention of Silverlight or HTML5.
Published at: I'm Just Being Manan | Subscribe
Bing – The Eye Opener For Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy
Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center. Image credit: Eternal Code
Steve B was at Moscow State University earlier today and he did exclaim his now signature three booms. During his speech at the university, SteveB focused on Microsoft’s cloud push. While talking about how Microsoft sees infrastructure a problem the developer shouldn’t be bothered with, he said that while working on Bing Microsoft realized this:
We need to improve the agility of software developers to be creative and innovative by separating the IT work that goes on in the datacenter from the work that goes on in the development community.
We learned this frankly the hard way as we built our Bing search service. Bing is literally hundreds of thousands of servers. We can’t have people saying, “Oh, I have to configure a new server; oh, I’ve got to manage a sever; oh, what if we’re going to take some workload and move it to a new datacenter, I’ve got to reconfigure the network.” We had to build an infrastructure that was self-managing and self-provisioning and that developers could do things against instantaneously.
A smarter, self adapting infrastructure based on requirement is what SteveB is talking about. At PDC10, Pixar demonstrated their CGI animation application – RenderMan on Azure and the animators had servers at their disposal.
SteveB also asked students to friend him on Facebook. The complete transcript of the speech can be found here.
PS: No mention of Silverlight or HTML5.
Published at: I'm Just Being Manan | Subscribe
Bing – The Eye Opener For Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy
Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center. Image credit: Eternal Code
Steve B was at Moscow State University earlier today and he did exclaim his now signature three booms. During his speech at the university, SteveB focused on Microsoft’s cloud push. While talking about how Microsoft sees infrastructure a problem the developer shouldn’t be bothered with, he said that while working on Bing Microsoft realized this:
We need to improve the agility of software developers to be creative and innovative by separating the IT work that goes on in the datacenter from the work that goes on in the development community.
We learned this frankly the hard way as we built our Bing search service. Bing is literally hundreds of thousands of servers. We can’t have people saying, “Oh, I have to configure a new server; oh, I’ve got to manage a sever; oh, what if we’re going to take some workload and move it to a new datacenter, I’ve got to reconfigure the network.” We had to build an infrastructure that was self-managing and self-provisioning and that developers could do things against instantaneously.
A smarter, self adapting infrastructure based on requirement is what SteveB is talking about. At PDC10, Pixar demonstrated their CGI animation application – RenderMan on Azure and the animators had servers at their disposal.
SteveB also asked students to friend him on Facebook. The complete transcript of the speech can be found here.
PS: No mention of Silverlight or HTML5.
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Bing – The Eye Opener For Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy
In my latest and last post for The Next Web, I try to envision Silverlight’s role in Windows’ future. The debate flared after Bob Muglia’s statements were misinterpreted.
Chrome’s netbook OS is essentially web apps running on a computer with a browser. Quick, easy and underpowered. Windows applications can’t run on a tablet and be as useful, Silverlight apps developed for the phone however is a di9fferent story. If these apps run on the Windows desktop, Microsoft’s founding dream of Windows everywhere stays alive.
A proprietary development platform for mobile devices that expands to the desktop (in and out of the browser) will position Microsoft to maintain its dominance or at least be a formidable force.
Read the rest on The Next Web.
You can read Bob Muglia’s clarification on the Silverlight blog.
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[TNW] Silverlight And The Future Of Windows
In my latest and last post for The Next Web, I try to envision Silverlight’s role in Windows’ future. The debate flared after Bob Muglia’s statements were misinterpreted.
Chrome’s netbook OS is essentially web apps running on a computer with a browser. Quick, easy and underpowered. Windows applications can’t run on a tablet and be as useful, Silverlight apps developed for the phone however is a di9fferent story. If these apps run on the Windows desktop, Microsoft’s founding dream of Windows everywhere stays alive.
A proprietary development platform for mobile devices that expands to the desktop (in and out of the browser) will position Microsoft to maintain its dominance or at least be a formidable force.
Read the rest on The Next Web.
You can read Bob Muglia’s clarification on the Silverlight blog.
Published at: I'm Just Being Manan | Subscribe
[TNW] Silverlight And The Future Of Windows
In my latest and last post for The Next Web, I try to envision Silverlight’s role in Windows’ future. The debate flared after Bob Muglia’s statements were misinterpreted.
Chrome’s netbook OS is essentially web apps running on a computer with a browser. Quick, easy and underpowered. Windows applications can’t run on a tablet and be as useful, Silverlight apps developed for the phone however is a di9fferent story. If these apps run on the Windows desktop, Microsoft’s founding dream of Windows everywhere stays alive.
A proprietary development platform for mobile devices that expands to the desktop (in and out of the browser) will position Microsoft to maintain its dominance or at least be a formidable force.
Read the rest on The Next Web.
You can read Bob Muglia’s clarification on the Silverlight blog.
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[TNW] Silverlight And The Future Of Windows
by dave on April 16th, 2010 /
Category: News
These grainy video snapshots are from Manan’s website, where he has posted a couple neat videos from Microsoft’s Hyderabad IDC guys at Tech Ed India 2010. Understandably excited to present their work, they demoed a 3D spinning browser, and in another they played with the X and Y orientation of a video while it was playing. Neat tricks, guys!
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by dave on April 13th, 2010 /
Category: News
Mary Jo Foley has just posted that the first Windows Phone 7 devices out of the gate won’t have browser support for Silverlight. We already knew that Silverlight 4 won’t be ready in time for the Windows Phone 7 launch, but Microsoft had been distributing version 3 with SDKs anyway.
Well it turns out devices compiled for Windows Phone 7 written in Silverlight will run fine, but Microsoft doesn’t plan to support in-browser Silverlight plugins until a later release:
“In its first release, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Phone. It is very straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Phone. Silverlight 4 has not yet been released. We will be sharing more details on Windows Phone support for Silverlight 4 once both products are in the market. Stay tuned.”
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by dave on September 16th, 2009 /
Category: News
Opera has just dropped a beta version of their popular Opera Mini browser, and it looks like they’ve hit the nail on the head. Adding tabbed browsing, a much-improved “quick dial” for your bookmarked pages, plus a few other additions and improvements could put Opera back on top.
Opera has put up a nice video showing off the new features, you can view the Opera Mini Beta 5 Video here.
The only thing it is lacking that the reigning champ, Skyfire, has over Opera Mini now is Skyfire’s incredible support for media, including Flash and Silverlight.
Interested in giving the new Opera a try? Head over to Opera’s website and download it! Please leave some comments with your thoughts after you’ve tried it out!
Dying to find out what the Windows Mobile Marketplace will be all about? How it will work? Microsoft has posted a video showing you just that! In the video are details telling how the system works, how to pay, how refunds work, various carrier content, and info on their app guarantees!
Check it out right here after the jump, but be sure you have Silverlight installed first!
Video: Windows Mobile Marketplace introduction!
