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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

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

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

A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta

A Microsoft Code Name a Day: VoltaHow 'bout "Screwup" or "Screw the Customer?"Now that I think about it, that name is applicable to almost any MSFT product from 1995 onward with the possible exception of the original XP (before it was fatally bogged down with "security enhancements" - can you...

Tags: Linux, Volta, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

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

Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects

Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained to me this week how Microsofts growing number of data-programmability pieces will come together...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-10

News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-24

'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

Additional Resources

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

News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

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

Car Wars in Detroit

The electric Fisker, photo courtesy of CNET. The world's two biggest auto makers are taking their fight to new territory. Toyota today announced it will make a plug-in hyrbid. This car would run on gasoline or you could plug it in to recharge...

Tags: Car, Plug-in, Ford Motor Co., Fisker, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-14