The New Stack: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Core Technology
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10/31/2008 9:10:58 AM
During the PC era, the technology stack was controlled by Microsoft Windows and Wintel - the "Wintel" era. We are now entering a new era, called variously 'Cloud' or 'SaaS' or 'Enterprise 2.0'.
In this era everything is different - the stack, the players and the potential for value creation. ReadWriteWeb outlines the basic shape of this emerging era, in particular defining what makes up the new stack
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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed
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10/29/2008 12:47:36 PM
The goal of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform is to provide developers who want to write applications that run partially and/or entirely in a remote datacenter with a platform and set of tools.
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techtrix
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Microsoft eyes Oslo as game-changer for application development
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10/22/2008 9:44:15 AM
With its ambitious Oslo software-modeling platform, Microsoft Corp. is seeking a new application-development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has brought up questions about whether Oslo crowds the modeling landscape and whether Microsoft can achieve its lofty goals.
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How Spam is Improving AI
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10/15/2008 11:04:12 AM
Those pesky visual puzzles that have to be completed each time you sign up for a Web mail account or post a comment to a blog are under attack. It's not just from spam-spewing computers or hackers, though; it's also from researchers who are using anti-spam puzzles to develop smarter, more humanlike algorithms.
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techtrix
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7 online blunders
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10/7/2008 10:11:20 AM
These common mistakes can ruin your computer or invite identity theft
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Does Vista already have Windows 7's new kernel?
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10/3/2008 12:21:43 PM
For those waiting for a faster, better-performing version of Windows, you'll have to wait at least nine months for Windows 7.
But if you can't wait, Vista Service Pack 1 may provide a peek into Microsoft's plans to equip Windows 7 with a dramatically smaller, more agile operating-system kernel.
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Microsoft unveils new Visual Studio version
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9/30/2008 8:47:54 AM
Visual Studio 2010 aims to break down walls between application development life-cycle roles
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developer
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URL Rewriting in ASP.NET using URLRewriter.Net
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9/26/2008 8:51:17 AM
Learn to use search engine friendly URLs for your ASP.NET pages
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developer
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Using ASP.NET 3.5 History Control in ASP.NET 2.0
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9/26/2008 8:48:33 AM
As ASP.NET 2.0 does not provide built in support for Back button functionality in AJAX Update Panel, This post will show you how to use ASP.NET 3.5 Ajax ControlToolKit History control with ASP.NET 2.0, to achieve the back button functionality in ASP.NET 2.0
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Using AJAX, LINQ and XML in C#
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9/26/2008 8:46:55 AM
AJAX and LINQ are two of the main focuses of Microsoft right now; and no wonder - both have huge potential and power behind them. In this example, we will show how we can use AJAX coupled with LINQ and XML to create a Web Application that we can use to view stored data instantaneously, as well as add to it in the same way
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