Ray Ozzie took the stage and re-emphasized the focus on Software + Services. The recurring theme of “Three screens and the cloud” will be the common thread through the conference.
The focus today on the backend such as Azure and the cloud, tomorrow the focus will be on the UX side.
Next spring at MIX was the promise of what Windows Live and the Live platform with Mobile will bring.
Scott Guthrie will present tomorrow with some Silverlight surprises.
Seesmic demo of a prototype for their desktop twitter app built on Silverlight (yes, it has user list support)
The CEO Announced they will ship Seesmic for windows entirely built on windows for Win 7. Quick, intuitive navigation with drag and drop for user list placement. They will also allow it as a development platform to develop plug-ins.
Azure.
Plenty of mentions of PHP and mysql as well as Java and Eclipse for the Azure platform.
Azure goes “live” and starts billing in Feb 2010. Inclusion of templates in VS 2010. Support multiple roles of almost any deployment. Enabled FastCGI for other language inclusion.
Data center replication pairs. One of the cloud server containers is here on the show floor. With SQL Azure it is truly a database in the cloud to be created on demand. All existing tools work against the cloud database. A couple vendors will get to go live today on Azure.
Matt Mullenweb, Automattic – WordPress.
Cheeseburger network that runs icanhazcheeburger and failblog. Launching oddlyspecific.com on the Azure platform using SQLAzure.
Talked about PinPoint for finding the right application and being found by others. pinpoint.com. They are going to integrate the portal into many points of access to help everyone be found.
Announcing CTP of “Dallas” is an open catalog and marketplace for public and commercial data. Data as a service.
Dave Campbell demos Dallas and shows off public sources and how to see the data. PowerPivot Add in integration to Excel allows the data to be popped right into Excel and manipulated.
Vivek Kundra – CIO for the US joined via video conference to talk about the data services in the cloud. NASA cooperation and usage of the Azure platform is fairly deep. Encouraged innovation of mobile applications integrating the data from the cloud to solve real problems.
Bottom line message.
Bet on Windows; bet on Windows 7.
Bet on our services; Bet on Azure.
Dream and create!
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