What’s Microsoft Got Coming out That’s Cool?

re: What’s Microsoft Got Coming out That’s Cool?

hengm1 — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:49:13 GMT

Everything seems to be happening so fast, one can barely get around a new "invention", then there's another one in the making. Too much high technology can really be so confusing at times.

re: What’s Microsoft Got Coming out That’s Cool?

Christian Salway — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:21:21 GMT

I have to agree with Bob's Your Uncle on the fact that you could simply design what you mentioned in a simple aspx web site with online forms, hosted on the school's internal web server. Then all you need is a web browser available on any phone, ipod, ipad, laptop, desktop, no matter what the OS.

Perhaps Azure hasnt got all the stars and lights around it's launch because its still trying to find it's true purpose...

re: What’s Microsoft Got Coming out That’s Cool?

Bob's Your Uncle — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:42:26 GMT

I don't really see any of the functionality described is specific to the cloud or to Microsoft technologies in general. Nothing described here is something that couldn't have been done 10 years ago using a traditional hosted model, nor is it something that couldn't be done with any other cloud offering today or with any other development stack.

Where is the real value of Azure in the scenario you describe? A martial arts franchise is unlikely to require the massive scalability or larger resources provided by the cloud vs. buying a $100 a year hosted website.

I think Azure is great and is very applicable in many enterprise scenarios, but I fail to see the true value it provides here.

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sqlman — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:29:42 GMT

Great post. This place could use Dynamics or SharePoint in Microsoft Online services to achieve this as well.

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Buck Woody — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:33:09 GMT

Master Ranger - have to disagree with you there. First, I'm not a sales guy - and it's impolite to call people names. Second, do you know what technology Amazon.com is using for their iPad sales page? You might want to check....

Third, You can write apps for the cloud in .NET, Java and C++, or PHP. Last I checked, those all run just fine on an iPad.

re: What’s Microsoft Got Coming out That’s Cool?

MasterRanger — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:21:37 GMT

Great post... and perfectly feasible if you're programming on the Enterprise-D. Nothing that comes out of Visual Studio will run on an iPad... even if you plug in this "azure" thing you people have been spewing lately. Sorry, sales guy.

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James Boother — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:01:17 GMT

Hi Buck,

Great post, I don't think that Microsoft sell this sort of thing very well. I've been using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to provide our customers this exact type of facility (Won't work on an iPad at the moment IE only - alas).

I think that this is way more exciting than the next toy released from Apple but it doesn't get the publicity it deserves because it takes more time and effort to explain and is more work for consumers to understand.