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Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server

On November 10, Microsoft announced the latest Oslo shift: Oslo's three main remaining components are going to be be renamed "SQL Server Modeling" and be folded into some future release of Microsoft's database. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Microsoft Oslo shifting to the data side

Last year, I heard Brian Loesgen compared Oslo, Microsoft's modeling strategy, to an onion, with many layers of features. Lately, it appears there is another layer to Oslo forming, which ties the platform closer to Microsoft's data programmability stack. Darryl Taft reveals that Microsoft has been shifting...

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Darryl Taft, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Microsoft shifts gears (again) with its Oslo modeling platform

It's been awfully quiet on the Microsoft service-oriented architecture SOA front for the past nine months or so. But on August 17, Product Unit Manager Doug Purdy broke the silence to provide an update on Microsoft's "Oslo" modeling platform and strategy. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Oslo, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-08-17

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: "Oslo" and the "M" Language With Jon Flanders (Level 200)

Microsoft Modeling Platform code name "Oslo" is the forthcoming platform for model-driven applications. The presenter of this webcast introduces the "Oslo" project and the Microsoft code name "M" language that works with it. The presenter highlights how "Oslo" and "M" allows creating models that can be stored in the Repository...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Oslo, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-02-18

Microsoft delivers tool updates for Oslo, Live Framework

Microsoft posted for download late last week new test builds of its Oslo software development kit SDK and its Live Framework tools. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Oslo, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Research & Development, Productivity, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering

In this week's profile in my "Microsoft Big Brains" series profiling the company's technical fellows, meet Brad Lovering, a k a "Mr. Oslo." by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Team, Oslo, Modeling, Brad Lovering, Team Management, Research & Development, Management, Business Operations

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Peeling Back the Microsoft Oslo 'Onion'

At the core of the Oslo onion: modeling language and repository by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'

Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-10

'Out of your brain and onto a hard disk': Microsoft's Oslo SOA push

A fresh approach, a new language for developer productivity by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Hard Drive, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web 2.0, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Oslo and Live Mesh: Will the two platforms ever meet?

Live Mesh is definitely a consumer-focused platform, while Oslo is aimed primarily at business-focused developers and customers. But the pair share a number of commonalities, too. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh, Shewchuk, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Microsoft signs onto Unified Modeling Language for SOA

Microsoft turns to UML to ensure Oslo mass appeal by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Oslo, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Michael Meehan, UML, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Programming Languages, Research & Development, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-10

More Microsoft 'Oslo' modeling details fall into place

While Microsoft isn't planning to provide testers with "Oslo" code until late October, the company did finally start putting some real meat on its software-modeling bones at the TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando this week. Until this week, Microsoft would say next-to-nothing about Oslo. Until the TechEd...

Tags: Repository, Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Microsoft's Oslo connections begin to bud

Microsoft took another step in unveiling its "Oslo" SOA strategy, with a sample application intended to not only demonstrate the vendor's interoperability as a SOA platform, and also show how it can automatically scale to meet the increased and unpredictable workloads SOA will bring to data centers. ...

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, 'D'

A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named "D," which will be at the heart of the Microsoft's push toward more intuitive software modeling. D is a key component of Microsoft's Oslo software-oriented architecture SOA technology and strategy. Microsoft outlined...

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, D, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Analyst: Microsoft Oslo part of 'tectonic shift' to business design

Microsoft may have been slow getting out the gate with an SOA strategy, but at least one analyst says that Microsoft's "Oslo" strategy represents more than a foray into SOA -- it represents a change in the way business interacts with IT. Microsoft announced Oslo last month,...

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Business Metadata, Software Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Research & Development, Application Servers, Strategy, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software, Business Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-10

LinderudCam 2 (Windows)

This cam is located in Oslo, Norway, at a place called Linderud. It updates every 15 minutes, or by clicking on it.

Tags: Oslo, Norway, Magne Marthinsen, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-04-18

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News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server

Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, OK IT, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Microsoft 'Geneva' identity wares approach the finish line

Microsoft is making available for download the near-final Release Candidate RC test build of its "Geneva" framework, the technology officially known as Windows Identity Foundation. Meanwhile, a new test build of the Microsoft Oslo modeling platform is waiting in the wings. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Geneva, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Copenhagen countdown

Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...

Tags: Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25