Craig’s Musings

During the first keynote of PDC last week, Bob Muglia associated this year’s PDC with the 1992 PDC, which featured the coming out of Windows NT. (I still think of “WNT” as “V++ M++ S++”, given David Cutler’s leadership on both operating systems.)
I think there is much to draw from this comparison where [...]

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This is a community service announcement.
Since I took the time to crack the download syntax for the PowerPoint decks presented this week at PDC, I thought I’d make my work publicly available. Here it is (i.e. sessions listed in alphabetically order with the session titles copied from the original master session list posted [...]

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Certainly the vision of Windows Azure (aka “Red Dog”) and the Azure Services Platform is substantial. However, in order for Microsoft, its partners and customers to realize it, it must deliver business value.
Internal or external, cloud computing has to address a set of real business problems in order to become a relevant part of one’s [...]

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It appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions:

Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
A Lap around Windows Azure
“Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to [...]

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This has been a light blogging month thus far; however, I suspect this is about to change due to the following events I’ll be traveling to during the rest of October:

EMC’s 2nd annual Innovation Conference (e.g. sample coverage of last year’s inaugural event: [1], [2], [3])
A follow-on EMC summit on next-generation collaboration
Microsoft PDC

I’ll do my [...]

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