EDS Day 2 – From the Microsoft Keynote
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