WPF/E (Windows Communication Foundation/Everywhere) is now called “Microsoft Silverlight” and available as a beta here. I think it will be really interesting to see if Microsoft goes beyond Windows and Mac and will start supporting other OSes (like Solaris or…
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Interesting news from the Compact Framework group: They are planning on releasing a subset of WCF on the Compact Framework (i.e. their mobile edition). This is quite interesting, not the least because a lot of their mobile devices are frequently…
Here is my mail to Mike Jones on the OSP: Hello Mike – First of all this is most excellent news – and I am looking forward toseeing those protocols being implemented by a large number of marketparticipants. However, I…
Here you can find the OSIS response to the OSP. I think that this reposonse is – particularly in the context of OSIS and related efforts – quite appropriate. The obvious issues with the covenant, as also pointed out by…
… and what is this RALLY thing, anyways? RALLY is an architecture and a set of specs form Microsoft that describes how to create devices that will easily configure themselves into a Microsoft centric network, with a heavy focus on…
I just installed Windows Vista RC1 (Build 5600) and had some serious problems getting Windows Update to work from behind my proxy server. The error I got was 8024402C, along with the recommendation to try the Automatic Proxy configuration. Needless…
Microsoft today announced their “Open Specifications Promise“, essentially a non-assertion covenant for a huge chunk of WS-* protocols. This OSP means (as fas as I can tell – and I am NOT a lawyer ;-)) that people can start implementing…
Here is a suggestion for the dasBlog folks: After our corporate blog host (http://blogs.sun.com/) was upgraded to Roller 3.0 (which – by the way – has a couple of really nice improvements), my cross-poring would no longer work. Since this…
This is a interesting research project at Microsoft: Phoenix is the framework for all upcoming compiler and JITer optimizations for the Microsofts platforms. Their goal is to unify opmizations and execuction imrpovements for both managed (i.e. .NET) and unmanaged (i.e.…
Microsoft Live has a STS for Windows Live ID (aka Passport) running here. Now this is really interesting, particularly in the context of Microsoft’s recent move to get the Infocard selector to many platforms. So what is the rationale behind…