Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 14, 2008
As Microsoft is ramping up its cloud story it seems that Live Mesh is starting to be positioned as one of the key elements. For example, now the Mesh framework got renamed to just Live Framework – quite a promotion unless there’s something else added in there. I am quite skeptical about the technology and [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 7, 2008
Just a couple of years ago Microsoft was spending incredible amount of effort developing, standardizing and publicizing their WS-* web service stack. This was a huge effort, they teamed up with IBM and others and built and documented a pretty impressive set of protocols covering every possible communications need over http. Now it looks like [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 2, 2008
Bloomberg is running an article on Kevin Turner (Microsoft’s COO), how he is re-organizing Microsoft sales, and fighting competition from Google. A few facts from the article caught my attention. First and foremost: Twenty-eight percent of technology buyers in a Goldman survey this month said they were trying Google applications or plan to in the [...]