We still have more questions than answers on what is the appropriate security story for data services. The May CTP of Astoria had some ideas built into it, but it was clearly not enough to build real-world applications. There is quite a bit that needs...

Charles from Channel9 came by my office a week or two ago and recorded this video where we discussed the motivations, target scenarios and some of the interface details of Astoria. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=305985 -pablo

When you combine technologies such as Silverlight or AJAX-style applications with Astoria there is an opportunity for building great interactive data-driven applications. However, this combination also results in a new ways of organizing the various pieces...

We announced Microsoft Codename Astoria at Mix this week, and we did two sessions on the technology during the event. This was great because we got a chance to talk 1:1 with a lot of folks that were interested in the topic. We also got a ton of feedback...