Office Web App to power Facebook emails

The new Facebook mail service will use Microsoft Office Web App in order to view Microsoft Office documents.

This follows the news of Facebook using Bing to search the social network.

It’s interesting to see Microsoft positioning itself in the social networking space and the search space.  It recently abandoned the idea of powering Livre Blog by...

Entity Framework 4.0: POCO or POCO?

The Entity Framework shipping with .NET Framework 4.0 is a major improvement over .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Entity Framework, which was the first version.  The first version was a nice curiosity but had many shortfall.  For instance, it didn’t support stored procedures, the designer wasn’t flexible, the produced ad hoc queries were quite hard to read, etc. .

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Scott Gu: Silverlight is strategic for Microsoft

The Gu has spoken:  Silverlight is important and strategic for Microsoft.

A bit like I mentioned earlier this week, the main points of Microsoft strategy are that Silverlight is for rich client applications while HTML 5 is for broader reach.

An interesting point of Scott Gu is that many of...

BizTalk vNext: BizTalk Azure?

There are some rumours for the next version of BizTalk (after BizTalk 2010) to be available in the Cloud.  A sort of BizTalk Azure.  That’s interesting news for sure.

Some are wondering how that will fit with Windows Azure AppFabric. Well, for sure, you’ll need your AppFabric Service Bus in...

Microsoft Silverlight Strategy

Apparently I wasn’t the only one to notice the lack of vigour behind the Silverlight marketing machine at the PDC last week.  Indeed, that and Bob Moglia’s declarations triggered one of those cyber-tsunami internet is famous for.

Moglia, Microsoft President in charge of server and tools business, made an