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  • Interview with Peter Spiro - Building Great Databases

    This is great video from Channel 9 - an interview with Peter Spiro , a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It's probably an understatement to describe Peter's career path as "unconventional", a path that lead to him eventually to accept a role at Microsoft in 1994 within the database...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-11-2007

  • Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2

    Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation of Astoria here , providing some sample read-only...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-03-2007

  • Breaking the Vista Customer Experience

    Pito, you're dead right on this : "I’ve written in the past that I thought at 60,000 feet, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X are more or less the same in terms of ease of use. The one huge (and probably crucial) exception to this is the initial user experience. I can only imagine what my 80 year old father...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-29-2007

  • Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers

    Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007

  • PaaS, more than SaaS

    In May 2007 I attended Salesforce.com developer conference where Salesforce SOA was announced as an add-on to the Apex platform. Industry analysts focusing on the area of SaaS considered the move as significant, but not surprising (see Phil Wainewright's take on the new in May 2007 as an example ). The...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-18-2007

  • MSDN Library - now with Folksonomies

    Larry Jordan has posted news that the MSDN Library now supports tagging by users: "The MTPS [MSDN and TechNet Publishing System] Tagging feature enables customers and authors to add and remove visible keyword tags to both topic pages and wiki blocks to improve discoverability of the library content....
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007

  • RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs

    Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007

  • And of Dynamics Live CRM SaaS APIs?

    Todd Bishop reported today of Microsoft's intended entrance next year into the B2B SaaS market with its announcement at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, providing details on pricing and partner revenue-share plans for a hosted service version of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: "Businesses...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-10-2007

  • Astoria podcast - Jon Udell interviews Pablo Castro

    Here's something I've been looking forward to for a while - Jon Udell interviewing Pablo Castro on the topic of Astoria . After the interview Jon wrote : "I’m not even close to being an expert in the underlying data access technologies, including ADO.NET, the Entity Data Model, and LINQ, so parts of...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-03-2007

  • Razorfish owned by Microsoft. What next?

    With all the analysis and reactions to the Microsoft acquisition of aQuantive last, I missed the fact that aQuantive is the parent company of the interactive marketing agency Razorfish ( Avenue A/Razorfish ). Brian Fling pointed this out and linked to this Advertising Age article commenting on this dimension...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-24-2007
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