Live from the MIX08 Keynote in Vegas ...
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!
