I'm sitting here live at the MIX08 Keynote and Ray Ozzie has just taken the stage....

RAY Ozzie -  3 guiding principles:

(1) Web is the hub - devices & social mesh - will impact everything we do...

(2) Enterprises will embrace the cloud - commodity applications on commodity hardware - virtualization - utility computing infrastructure...services in the cloud

(3) Loosley coupled systems in the cloud new front-end & back-end skills...deployed over vast arrays of computing infrastructure grids...progressive shift to cloud utility computing...

Really makes your head spin....ever seen the Matrix?

• Device mesh - connected devices
• Entertainment mesh - on connected devices XBOX, Zune,
• Social mesh - media/gaming centric web presence
• Connected productivity - Office for PC, Mobile, Web - Office Live Workplace
• Connected Business - Enterprise applications like CRM Live - shift to utility computing, Hyper-V, W2K8, run exchange, Sharepoint, Office Communication Services, BizTalk Services, and now SQL DATA SERVICES
• Connected Development - .NET family of runtimes, Silverlight, WPF, XNA, Compact Framework

Combining the power of the Internet with the magic of Software....

Scott Guthrie - "The GU!"

• Shipping later this year -> ASP.NET MVC , ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• First glimpse of Internet Explorer 8 - Dean Hachamovitch
• CSS 2.0 support
• Full interoperability compliance
• Better performance (JScript performance -> 2.5 times better!)
• Network connectivity notification events - save content locally & intelligently re-connect
• Developer tools - you can now debug script in the browser
• Select text (an address ) - right click and get a list of services like Virtual Earth
• Open Service format specification - EBAY, etc.
• Users can subscribe to parts of web pages "Web Slices" - like EBAY auction page parts...Facebook
• WebSlice Markup - developer - adds light weight markup added to the page
• Beta 1 now available

Silverlight Update:

• Deployment strategy - partner with great sites and use internally
• Now at 1.5+ million installations each day...
• Silverlight 2.0 - Beta 1 now available
• Focus: Media, RIA, Mobile devices
• Media - improve HD experience, TCO for video delivery, monetization - Ad revenues
• Adaptive Streaming - allows SL on client to examine capabilities & pick appropriate bit-rate, can also dynamically switch bit rates....no developer code required...Partnership with Move Networks adaptive stream technology.
• TCO - Jon Harris
• Streaming & progressive download scenarios - Windows Media Services now with 3x scalability - FREE on any W2k28 system!
• Progressive downloads - bit-rate throttling capabilities - IIS7 Media Pack - set-up bit-rate throttle by file type (WMV, MPG, etc.)  Save 50-60% of bandwidth costs for hosting - Also FREE!
• Business - advertising/monetization capabilities - new Silverlight AD template (Ad creation wizard) with tracking capabilities...deploy via Video.Show (on CodePlex) - has an Ad manager capability....including all tracking types...report screen (impressions, engagement by end users, etc.), Edit playlist - allow skip forward - past the ads..., Expression Encoder 2- marker points - dynamically load-in advertisements - burn advertisements (XAML, bitmaps, etc.) into video.
• DoubleClick - announcing support for Silverlight 2.0 for in-stream advertisements.
• NBA - adopted silverlight
• Shows tracepoints via the DoubleClick SDK - available in Q2
• The NBC Olympics - MS partner Schematic
• Major media event - 150 days to start...2200 live hours for 17 days...
• Make all content available by Video on Demand (VOD)...
• How to make all this content available to customers - via Silverlight & ensure high-quality video...
• www.NBCOlympics.com - live streaming & expert commentary...users can rewind the videos!
• Big Picture 16:9 high quality video picture...alert windows - send emails to have others join...discover new events...see different channels...picture-in-picture capabilities...
• How about multiple (4) live streams (pictures in pictures - amazing!
• See what other people are watching...Top 10 videos
• RIA capabilities:
• Build applications using any .NET language
• Rich WPF subset framework
• Databindng support
• Rich skinning & styling capabilities
• Robust Networking stack - including cross-domain & sockets
• LINQ Support
• Local Cache - Isolated Storage
• High Performance
• Small download - 6-10 second install (4.6 MB)
• SL Controls - slider, calendar, listbox, datagrid plus 3rd party controls
• Shipping controls WITH SOURCE!
• Also shipping Testing framework for unit testing w/ 200 samples
• The "Dev-igner"
• Control templates "skinning" capability - similar to WPF
• Visual Studio 2008 / Expression Blend Support & debugging (Windows & Mac)
• New tools support for VS2008 & Expression
• Silverlight Demos:
• AOL - building next mail client using Silverlight - Silverlight brings MUCH FASTER performance...Personalization - Halo 3 skin - leveraging isolated storage for data repository - faster data scrolling...
• Hard Rock - memorabilia collection - Sea Dragon - *UBER KEWL*!
• All memorabilia photographed...
• They will be Live this week - off HardRock.com
• MS will also be shipping software to stitch-together photo collections...
• Aston Martin
• On-line experience Silverlight website - 360 degree view...change the paint colors...change the interior colors & textures - uses the Silverlight deep-zoom technology..change tires...see the racing version videos...save & store car configurations...
• In-Store hand-held - WPF application...integration with the Silverlight web version...
• Now, I know where I'm ordering my new car...
• HR Business Scenario -

Overall, some very compelling updates - running out of batteries - be back soon!