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SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Keynote:
Cloud Computing Is Essential in Today's Business Landscape
"Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice, notes Amazon.com's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels, can be a complicated and expensive task. "But it's essential in today's business landscape," adds Vogels, who is the distinguished Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON's upcoming Cloud Computing Expo (November 19-21, 2008), a groundbreaking adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (19-21 November, 2008). "This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch," Vogels stresses." [More]
http://silverlight.sys-con.com/node/654775Cloud Gazing with Silverlight
"In the latest issue of my Data Points column in MSDN Magazine (Nov 2008 issue) I wrote an article titled “Cloud Gazing From Silverlight 2”. It answers some of the most common questions I get when I start talking about Silverlight 2 programs being used for data centric and service driven apps. In the article I address:" [More]
http://johnpapa.net/all/cloud-gazing-with-silverlight/Notes on PDC: Windows Azure
"After a slightly slow start, with Windows Azure, Microsoft has now placed a strong bet on cloud computing and cloud-based applications. The company now believes that "the systems for cloud computing will be setting the stage for the next 50 years - with new patterns and new models of deployment, and application models for a world of parallel computing." [More]
http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2008/11/notes-on-pdc-windows-azure.htmlOffice Live Workspaces & SL
"Office Live Workspace got updated. More languages were added: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Portuguese, and Greek. You can change your language with the language switcher at the bottom right of the page if you wish to do so. But that’s not all, they also introduce new features. One gets a particular mention on the Workspace Team Blog and that’s the use of Microsoft Silverlight to add multiple documents/files to your workspace:"
http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/11/06/office-live-workspace-utilizes-silverlight-for-multiple-document-uploading.aspxWeb-based Office draws concerns
"When Scott Barker, the director of IT at the UW's Information School, wrote in an e-mail to staff last week that there might be early trials of the Web-based Microsoft Office on campus, his announcement generated concerns."
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/153605.aspSL 2 - Building Rich Web Apps Today
"A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released Silverlight 2 as a Release to Web (RTW) product. For us at Microsoft, this was exciting news because it represented a major milestone in presenting to you as solution developers a platform for building rich, immersive experiences on the web. I'm not going to go through each of the features in Silverlight 2 that you have probably heard already from various sources, but I did want to take some time to talk about a few of the things that you may have missed in all the hype and announcements or not realized was possible with Silverlight in general." [More]
http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2008/11/05/silverlight-2-and-building-rich-web-applications-today.aspxMaking SL threading powerfully lighter
"Making threading in Silverlight powerfully lighter, Wintellect & Jeffery Richter release new version of their Power Threading Library with SilverLight support" [More]
http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/11/making-threading-in-silverlight.htmlSL for Moble - WM, S60 ahoy!
"So far, Microsoft’s Flash replacement called SilverLight was limited to desktops and notebooks running desktop versions of Windows. However, the runtime is now well on its way to conquer the mobile space (where Flash Lite has stuggled) - MSDN’s (SilverLight-powered) channel9 launched a new show covering SilverLight for mobile:" [More]
http://tamss60.tamoggemon.com/2008/11/08/silverlight-for-mobile-wm-s60-ahoy/SL 2 for Mobile
"In this webcast you will not only learn how to extend your existing Silverlight 2 applications to work on Windows Mobile, but also learn how to build rich mobile Silverlight apps that play media, handle simple gestures, have cool animations, and enable web services." [More]
http://messagebuzz.blogspot.com/2008/11/silverlight-2-for-mobile.html