Comments on: Microsoft Announcement Day 2008

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:13:13 +0000

I hope you’re wrong too! They have Live Mesh running on Azure, apparently, so hopefully it is here to stay.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:13:51 +0000

P.S. The problem with the announcements is that they are announce the possibility that something like the stuff shown, may become available sometime in the future under undisclosed terms.

As I said in a post, if day 1 is the usual big-wow day then the Windows 7 and Live stuff doesn’t sound too promising. It is a pre-beta after all so it could all go the way of WinFS. I hope to be wrong

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:11:18 +0000

Yeah, but only one is an explanation and that mostly points to the azure.com website

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:44:19 +0000

Hi Colin…I’ve starred your posts to read, but you answered your own question. The fact that you needed EIGHT posts means it is confusing! Heh. I should link to your summary post actually…

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:20:16 +0000

I’m not entirely sure why so many are confused about Azure. The azure.com website is good, but for a good explanation go to the channel9 video with Manuvir Das (not the other one).

With H2 2009 availability, it’s a little behind though.

There should be specifics on the Live Services parts tomorrow.

The Oslo dev center is already running on MSDN.

I blogged a whopping 8 posts on all this today…