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 online through blogs and emails. Here are some...

The "data programmability" team at Microsoft is responsible for the various technologies developers use in applications to access and manipulate data. One of the topics we have been looking at lately is how "new" internet applications use data in the web environment. Project codename "Astoria" reflects...