Ray Ozzie’s Keynote outlined IE 8.0, Silverlight 2 Beta – indicated Mix is the starting point for key lauch milestones – product introduction culminating in PDC this year. Two distinct to services strategy – advertising and how internet is transforming all the existing msft products. Content-Community-Commerce were key drivers of community engagement. Innovation driven user engagement turn advertising such an economy…. Advertising mainly to monetise services – Ad platform – so significantly investing in search (yahoo). Web is impacting MSFT existing products. 3 core principles driving reconceptualization of the products- web as a hub, device hub,social hub. Personal collection of pc – rather then single pc. Enterprise moves to embrace the cloud. Distributed/Federated. 1st principle – personal – social mesh
2nd principle – business – power of choice as enterprise moves to embraces the cloud – apps. refactored to utility computing that will reshape enterprise applications. power of server/service symmetry.. 3rd principle – cloud. light weight rest based systems – small pieces loosely joined.
5 major connected devices(mesh), entertainment(license media once and look from any device, zoom.net, xbox, media room, media center),business-enterprise CRM platforms, office live crm- shift to utlity computing in datacenters and cloud – hyper v, system center products – virtual roductivity(office pc, office live, office mobile, sharepoint, exchange,office communication server),development – unified data management
BizTalk Services. Beta of SQL Server Data Services. 5th – connected development -.Net runtime, silverlight, .NET framework.
Scott Guthrie’s overview – introduces IE’s Dean Hachomovitz to show IE 8.0 wearing eight t-shirt and talking about 8 things in IE. increased – Interoperability, Css 2.1 support, css certifications, performance, html 5 start support, new dev. tools, activities,websites, 702 test cases to w3c site.
ie 8.0 compatility mode with 7.0. support connection events from html 5.0 – html’s dom storage.
great developer tools, immediate window etc. activities – live maps, in place reviews without going to page… write a little bit of xml… openservice specification available…
7.web slices…. can subscribe to parts of a web page – web slice…
webslice specification.
8. Beta1 for developers 9 msft/ie/ie8
Scott Guthrie – Silverlight sites – vodaphone, et, 20 century fox, mlb, lechtv, mlb.com etc.
