Blogs @ IRM

So PDC is over for this time, but PDC 2009 is already announced, so we might not need to wait three years to the next. In this post I will try to summaries a great week. Windows Azure I think this announment was expected, but I must say that the first impression is that it seems quite complete. After having the head spinning for a while I can ...

Geneva is the code name of Microsoft's identity framework (and it replaces Zermatt for those of you who have read about that). Geneva is actually three things: Geneva Framework. Geneva Server a security token service (STS), also the next version of ADFS. Windows CardSpace "Geneva", formely known as CardSpace 2. The Geneva ...

First session today was this PowerShell session with title as above. This was more like a lap around PowerShell commands and environment, and to be fare that it also stated in the abstact of the session, but I choose session based on the title only. I would have hoped for more information about how to think when creating a stack of command lets ...

Todays keynote is shorter and is delivered by Rick Rashid on Microsoft Research. 1990 Microsoft was a small company with only 5 000 employees, but still choosed to begin a basic research department which was unusual for such a small company in that time. Most Microsoft products that exists today have parts coming from Microsoft Research. During ...

This is probably one of the must attend sessions at this PDC with Anders Hejlsberg himself, and as always he has a very relaxing and laybacked presentation style that works very well. Anders started with summerizing three trends in programming languages: Declarative, Dynamic and Concurrent. He also shortly mentions that languages are not just OO ...

Finally BizTalk Services is not containing BizTalk in its official name anymore, but that is now called Microsoft .NET Services. "Dublin" is the code-name for Windows Application Server Extensions and contians part that was originally in the "Oslo" vision. (Side note: "Oslo" is now only the modelling). As you might ...

Ray Ozzie begins the keynote with explaining why Software + Service is going to happend, by trying to answer if "this cloud thing" is different from the architectures used today in the enterprises. This of course is the case both in terms of technology and business issues. For example what about the policy issues with laws and other ...

Notes from the PDC pre-conference session, by Jeff Prosise. Silverlight contains an optimized subset of the full .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). This means that if you have existing .NET libraries that only uses the subset the source code is compatible, but you cannot use the same compiled library because there are other references for ...

I'll be there. :)