Quick Links from #PDC09 Keynote Day 1 - Marc: My Words - Site Home

If you didn't catch the keynote from PDC 09 today then you can see the on-demand stream here shortly. This year the keynote was streamed with Silverlight Smooth Streaming: my experience was very good - didn't miss a beat in two hours - and there seemed to be positive tweets from others on the subject too.

Essentially the keynote today was Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia - aided by a few others - talking about the delivery of some aspects of the Azure platform, and pointing the way to the future. You can see the official press releases here. A few links:

Azure will be going into production from 1st January 2010 which is a huge milestone. You can see pricing details here.
Pinpoint is updated: an online marketplace for Microsoft partners to market and sell their applications.
Codename "Dallas" is a new data service, based on Azure and available through Pinpoint which enables developers to access premium datasets and content such as NAVTEQ, AP and Data.gov. An interesting innovation in the exposure of these kinds of datasets.
Beyond the services themselves, Bob concentrated on the tooling - via VS2010 and AppFabric. AppFabric is a set of services "that enable deployment and management" of scalable applications across server and cloud. This is a realisation of a few projects: Dublin, Velocity and Oslo alongside the .NET Services. The demo here was very impressive and will take a while for me to get my head around. Meantime, you can take a look at the learning centre for more background and - very shortly - downloads of the beta.
ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta was released and you can see Phil Haack's post here.

A starter for 10. There'll be a load more tomorrow, so get reading!