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Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolset: Microsoft is making available a first, publicly available test build of a developer toolset that allows programmers to write Web applications using existing .Net-based tools and languages. The toolset -- code-named "Volta" (and previously code-named "Tesla") -- is the brainchild of Erik Meijer, a SQL Server architect...; Tags: Developer, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Programming, Volta, Meijer, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-12-05

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In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy: In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus MonkeyboyFunny thing that.I watched some of the MSDN Channel 9 videos recently. People like Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman, Scott Guthrie and others. Likeably, intelligent people you respect. You see them, and you think there is hope for Microsoft.Then you see Steve Ballmer,...; Tags: Public relations, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-02-29
Microsoft Volta - a cool new RIA technology: I heard about Volta last week and to be honest, I had no idea what it was. "Tier-splitting" sounds interesting but I wasn't sure how it would be used in the real world. The blogosphere soundbyte of "Microsoft's GWT" got me more confused. Ed has a very good writeup with...; Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Volta, Ed, AJAX, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT: Is Microsoft's "cloud programming" toolset Volta -- which Microsoft released in early preview form this week -- a "me-too" response to Google's Google Web Toolkit GWT? I've seen that argument from fellow ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette and others around the Web. I asked Microsoft Volta Architect...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Google Web Toolkit, Volta, Execution Environment, Scripting Languages, C#, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Programming Languages, Software Development, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-12-07
Microsoft creates GWT clone: While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. "JavaScript is just an assembly language," says Live Labs product manager...; Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Tier, CLR, GWT, Volta, Upshot, Silverlight 1.1, .Net, C#, Web Browsers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-12-05

Volta: Browser capabilities on steroids: I ran across Mary Jo Foley's recent post in a series on Microsoft code names where she discussed Volta. As I tend, as a developer, to look at these things from a different angle, I thought I'd add my own explanation of the technology.I first saw Volta mentioned in a...; Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Web Browser, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-08-09
A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta: I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...; Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-08-08
'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?: Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...; Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Why the Sharp languages still matter: Why the Sharp languages still matterWe use all the Sharps here...My rep got me pre-alpha versions of F# and X# way back. It was unreal. I pulled two of my top-Top-TOP MCSDs off their projects and told them "reinvent all of our applications in F# pronto". The edict was delivered...; Tags: .NET, Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Sharp Corp., C#; Discussion threads 2007-02-21
Why the Sharp languages still matter: Its been a while since Microsoft has talked publicly about the # Sharp programming languages under development by its research unit. But the silence doesnt mean nothings been happening. Elements of the Sharps -- F#, Spec#, X# now known as C Omega, all of which build on top of...; Tags: Database, SQL Server, Development tools, Visual Studio Orcas, .Net Framework; Blog posts 2007-02-21
Meijer Inc. Shops for File Services With Higher Standards and Rings Up Super-Combo HP NAS-SAN: In 70 years, Meijer Inc. has grown from a corner grocery store in the midst of the Depression to one of the largest privately held companies today. Over time, Meijer realized that it was extremely costly and ineffective to support and upgrade multiple configurations on more than 150 distributed file...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Standards, File Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; Case studies
Retailer Shops for File Services With Higher Standards and Rings Up Super-Combo HP NAS-SAN: Meijer Inc., located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a family-owned grocery and general merchandise retailer with over 150 stores across the Midwest that feature more than 120,000 national brands and private-label products. A retail IT environment dependent on file servers distributed throughout the company's 150 locations made it too costly...; Tags: Information Technology, Retail Company, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Retail, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), File Servers, Quality, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations; Case studies