Microsoft previews Live Platform development services

Microsoft’s Live Mesh - WTF is it?

Microsoft’s just-announced Live Mesh platform is, as most things out of Redmond these days are, a complex offering that can be difficult to understand with the company’s typical marketing-speak and software-plus-services buzzwords. So what the heck is Live Mesh? Microsoft’s new Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is[...]

Architecture Journal - Issue 13 Live!

[IMG Software + Services] In case you missed it, Issue 13 of the Architecture Journal is now live here in online format. The theme for this issue is Software + Services, and includes articles on the Internet Service Bus, Astoria, Software + Services consumption for Enterprise IT,[...]

Microsoft Buys Danger

Microsoft has acquired Danger, Inc., maker of the T-mobile “Sidekick” device and the Danger operating system and platform. Danger has been hailed as highly innovative and its platform and OS pre-dates the iPhone (2000). There’s a bit of an irony here in that Danger was co-founded by Andy Rubin[...]

Microsoft Live Mesh Turns the Web Into Your File Sharing Hub

Microsoft Live Mesh Turns the Web Into Your File Sharing Hub Microsoft believes in the cloud. The interact has foregather undraped an invite-only try of its infant Live Mesh service, a “cloud computing” beam fashioned to stop you entering and care your files from where ever you are. [...]

Ozzie teases on Microsoft software services

Microsoft’s answer to SaaS still a year away. Chief software architect Ray Ozzie has given some of the clearest examples yet of Microsoft’s vision of “software plus services”. Ozzie teases on Microsoft software services[...]