EDS Day 2 – From the Microsoft Keynote

Mar 18th, 2006 | By | Category: Events

As the IBM keynote wraps up, the Microsoft keynote begins.

Brian is talking up Eddie Amos, Sr. Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism

  • mentioned MIX06
  • Doing a great job of connecting ESRI and Microsoft (.NET)…evangelism is right :-)
  • 3 vectors of improvement: Reach, Security and Indentity, and Fidelity
  • He listens to podcasts :-)
  • ATLAS (Microsoft’s AJAX implementation)
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (pushing UI off to the graphics card) browser and desktop based (cross platform)
  • XAML: tell what to do as opposed to how to do it (declarative markup language)
  • Pretty demos are always effective
  • Security concepts in Vista
  • Office 12 connecting to web services
  • mobile platforms
  • Windows Live demo

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