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

HTML 5 or Silverlight?

Ah, this is a tough question!

As I mentioned yesterday, I was in Microsoft Office in Montreal for the PDC keynote diffusion after which there was a discussion about the keynote.

The room was filled mainly with freelancers and small company consultants (that is quite typical for a Montreal crowd actually).  More than half of those individuals are Microsoft...

PDC 2010 Keynotes

Today was the first day of the PDC 2010.  Microsoft hosts events all around the world, inviting local partners, where they broadcast the PDC keynotes and have a discussion around that afterwards.  I was in such an event in Montreal.

Ray Ozzie’s October 2010 Memo

Five years ago, Ray Ozzie, newly arrived at Microsoft, released his famous memo.  In his vision, he showed a transformational path for his company:  Software + Services.

Despite Ray leaving Microsoft, he just wrote a new memo:  dawn of a new day.

In this new memo he once again conjure a vision for his company:  continuous services &...