.NET Web Product Roadmap ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7 – ScottGus Blog 11/29/2007
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.NET Web Product Roadmap ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7 – ScottGus Blog
ScottGu’s blog has a nice n’ tidy overview of all the new development goodness coming out of Redmond. Be sure to click the link above to read the whole thing:
“Over the next few months well be delivering a series of additional products that build on top of this VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 foundation, and make .NET development even better. Below is a road-map of some of the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development that my team is currently working on for the months ahead”
Could Google’s Android Be the Cell Phone Savior? 11/08/2007
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Could Google’s Android Be the Cell Phone Savior?
And now for a completely different opinion:
“The U.S. mobile market today gives companies two less-than-ideal alternatives when trying to create mobile functionality. It can either go the app approach or the browser approach.
The app approach forces the consumer to download—or to have pre-installed—a small applet onto the phone. The chief pro: The final result should look exactly as the designers intended. The chief con: It limits the audience size to those whose OS and platform are compatible with the applet.
The browser approach is almost the opposite….”
Google Customers = “Programmed Drones?” 11/07/2007
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Google Customers = “Programmed Drones?”
This may turn into a nice flame war between Google and Ziff Davis, publishers of CIO Insight:
“Android is more evidence of the Google attitude and mimicking of Microsoft of 15 years ago. For Android is an empty promise—the worst kind of vaporware. The company has a code name, a promised product, a late 2008 delivery date, a list of partners and almost no details. Either in its arrogance Google refuses to share details or else it has none to share. I say both are right.
Android is the worst kind of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) announcement. The timing is the giveaway: days after OpenSocial and right before Facebook announces its advertising platform. More broadly, Google has given enough lead time before next year’s FCC auction to create doubt about the company’s intentions. The lack of real Android information further feeds uncertainty about the extent of Google’s mobile intentions. “
