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- 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
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- Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft's 'Kojax'
- Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft's 'Kojax'is that accurate?[i]using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript, on Java-based mobile phones.[/i].Is M$ embracing Java?...Or may be it is getting ready to buy Sun at a firesale price.Silverlight Lite ?Could it be Silverlight Lite ?Some possible connectionsLive Mesh / Live Framework,...
- Tags: Microsoft Just, Kojax, Microsoft Corp., AJAX, Microsoft Silverlight, Here Come
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloadsVolta and PDCI'm guessing Volta will show up again at the PDC. Dharma Shukla's Live Platform Architecture session seems to hint at it with "hybrid client/cloud scripting". I also wouldn't be surprised if a stand-alone Volta session is added at the last...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Dharma Shukla, Pocket Internet Explorer, Deepfish, Volta, WM7, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
- Microsoft has quickly and quietly killed off one of its touted Live Labs projects, as my ZDNet blogging colleague Matthew Miller recently blogged. And another of the Microsoft incubator's projects -- the Volta tookit -- is missing in action. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Volta, Live Labs, Deepfish, Windows Mobile 7, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?The area I see the most room fpr improvmentis not in new laguages or even expanding current laguages. It is the ability to marry them together easily. This has been a major problem for Microsoft in the past,...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Development tools, .NET, inmate, Microsoft Corp., hot button, programming, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front? Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company's Redmond campus this week for its second Lang.Net symposium. The three-day conference is all about the future of "programming languages, managed...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Reading Windows tea leaves
- Though not exactly lighting up the blogosphere, speculations about future directions in the Windows platform have been rife. This article at APC compiled the various rumors together about Windows 7 (the successor to Vista...whatever name it ends up having) into a neat package, and this article on Ars Technica spoke...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, UI, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- News to know: HP zero days; IE patches; Missing Mac apps; Microsoft service packs galore
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: IE gets a Patch Tuesday makeover. Microsoft bulletin. Zero-day flaw haunts HP laptop models. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases public test build of Vista SP1 David Morgenstern: Uncovering the missing Mac OS X applications ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Patch Management, Amazon.com Inc., Service Pack, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- News to know: LinkedIn revamp; Can enterprise software be sexy?; Apple; R.I.P. Marc Orchant
- Notable headlines: Rest in Peace Marc Orchant. Techmeme. I'd like to share with you the two life lessons Marc Orchant taught me. We will all miss Marc. LinkedIn revamps interface, opens API. On Sunday a big debate of enterprise software broke...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Microsoft creates GWT clone
- Microsoft creates GWT cloneThe "clone" strategy..~ "If Volta had been released two years ago.. ..Microsoft is playing catch-up with Google and Adobe" ~They are, and it'll most likely be an uphill battle, too as those two giants focus on newer and progressively more powerful versions.Bill Burkehttp://wirelessspeech.blogspot.comMS: Start late, catch-up, over...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., GWT, Playing Catch-Up
- Discussion threads 2007-12-08
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTWow!Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. What a great description and comparison of Volta to GWT!I am so excited about Volta and it's possibilities!-Brandonhttp://dynamics-ax.blogspot.comRE: Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTNice idea, but slow as hell. Try the demos at...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scripting languages, Volta, Microsoft Corp., GWT, Google Inc., GWT JSIO
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- 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
- Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolset
- Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolsetyup![i]"It's taken ten years for me to solve this problem. It will take another decade for this to be where it needs to be."[i]No doubt about it, but in the meantime there will be no more M$, just Linux and OSS! :)RE:...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Volta, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Delivers, Microsoft .NET, Softies
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- 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
- Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.
- Web 2.0, among other things, would include a more advanced client side development model than the current HTML / CSS / Javascript approach. Traditional web programming technologies, though powerful, were not designed for the kinds of applications we build today, and hence, can be complicated to create.The problem with new...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Web 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Cross-platform Microsoft
- Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version...
- Tags: Software, Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Volta: Browser capabilities on steroids
- Volta: Browser capabilities on steroidsRevenue maintenance and exploration of new ways to continue make money.Everybody know Microsoft is one exceptionally mediocre software developing company and there are just so many ways to come up with new ideas for the office applications. New versions have to come or Microsoft will...
- Tags: Web browsers, Now IT, Microsoft Corp., Volta, Web browser, Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- 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
- News to know: Linux; XP SP3; MySpace profits; HTC Advantage unwrapped
- Notable headlines:Paula Rooney: Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld. Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms Windows XP SP3 pre-beta is in testers’ hands. A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Volta. You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive. Ed Bott: A confusing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Linux, High Tech Computer Corp., Google News, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., MySpace, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
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