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PDC2008: News, Blogs, Articles from Redmond Developer News
Microsoft PDC 2008: News, Blogs, Articles from Redmond Developer News
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15 November 2008

Cover Story: Microsoft's Cloud Vision
by Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
Why Windows Azure and Windows 7 will change the way you work. read article

PDC Showcases Visual Studio 2010
First Visual Studio 2010 CTP offers IDE upgrades and advancements in tooling designed for .NET Framework 4.0. read more
Big Blue's Bluehouse in the Cloud
IBM launches a cloud-computing initiative in an effort to evolve its software-delivery model into a mix of on-premises and online apps. read more
Microsoft Unveils Identity Framework
Microsoft releases "Geneva" and Live Identity Services as the first pieces of its identity-management roadmap. read more
New Specs on Tap for AJAX Development
The OpenAjax Alliance unveils two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime. read more
New Ruby Framework Offers Modular Approach
Engine Yard releases Merb, a new open source Web framework for building Ruby applications. read more
Redmond Review
Parsing PDC
by Andrew Brust
A look back at the 2008 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. read column
Frameworks
PDC: Shock and Awe
by Michael Desmond
The PDC 2008 offered a stunning display of overwhelming force as Microsoft rolled out a veritable host of development-oriented platforms, products, tools and technologies. read column
Developer's Toolkit
Building Workflows
by Peter Varhol
If you have to build applications that require several discrete steps, then Windows Workflow Foundation is a tool that can help you do so. read column
Zachmann.NET
Virtues and Vices
by William F. Zachmann
The cleanest wins for virtualization come not in production infrastructure, but in development platforms. read column
Q & A: Data Driver in the Cloud
by Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell on Windows Azure and SDS. more
Tech Brief: Parallel Extensions
by Stephen Toub
New .NET libraries support data and task parallelism. more
DevScope: The Daily Fix
by Alex Papadimoulis
Software development gone wrong. more
Response Chain: jQuery Push Back
by Readers of Redmond Developer News
A sampling of letters from the developer community. more