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Microsoft embracing open-source web platforms (finally)

Cloud news of the day goes to Microsoft.  Saw this tweet (thanks @mdesilver)
James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart)
12/2/09 7:21 PM
RT @llangit: RT @mhindsbo: #Azure supports .NET languages, such as C# + VB + Java, PHP, Python and now also Ruby http://tinyurl.com/yfs7cn6
James Urquhart from eWeek reports that Azure is now supporting Ruby on Rails.
This is exciting – you now have a major platform [...]

Google Sites API and Sharepoint Move – more power under the hood

LTech is proud to announce a new product, Sharepoint Move.
From InformationWeek:
Google partner LTech has already build an application called SharePoint Move for Google Apps using the API to help liberate data, as Google might put it, from SharePoint.
Sharepoint Move is based on the Google Sites APIs.  These types of APIs are what makes the cloud viable. [...]

Do interesting things with Google Apps

What else can developers do for Google Apps? 
A open, flexible Facebook-style API for Apps would be awesome.  Imagine the community building the next generation office platform.
Right now, developers outside of Google can write Gadgets that live on the outside layout areas of GMail. Google developers have done some interesting things with Labs – I use the [...]

Rails for .NET Developers: New Book Out!

Check it out.
Our friends over at Softies on Rails have put a book out that will help any .NET developer looking to work with Ruby on Rails.  The Softies crew was an early inspiration for me to try out Ruby and Mac development, and I am really happy for them that they were able [...]

What if the Matrix ran on Windows?

Stay tuned until the end — “Ubuntu, I’m going to learn … Ubuntu?”

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Yahoo Application Platform is out – anyone have good examples?

The new Yahoo Application Platform was launched.

This looks really cool.  I hope it is not all for naught.  Anyone using it?  Have any examples? Please post them!
The support forum has few active topics. But I think there is potential here, even if Yahoo doesn’t exist in the same form 3 or 6 months from now.  [...]

Google Apps adoption on the rise for colleges and universities

Google Apps Education Edition helps attract solution providers
Back in May, Microsoft began offering hosted Exchange on college campuses through its Live@edu service — a move some saw as a direct response to Google’s success in the higher education market. Yahoo is also pushing to entrench its Zimbra email and collaboration desktop in higher ed. It’s [...]

Microsoft’s Web 2.0 Developer Program Scores Points, but read the fine print

According to this headline, Microsoft has “edged” Google in Web 2.0 services for developers.  The report being discussed is from Evans Data, a technology research group.
Microsoft  and eBay score unexpectedly high marks with developers, according to Evans.
You decide, the  report can be found here.   But I can’t quite grasp what sort of survey panel [...]

Bill Gates goes out on a limb, claims internet will change in next 10 years

Bill,
Please run Microsoft again.  It needs you.
I think you may need it too.   Your recent comments are not very helpful.
I was kind of hoping for something more profound and insightful than  “We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead.”
You used to say cool stuff like “Be [...]

More Doom and Gloom for Microsoft

According to Gartner and some industry folks that are “in the know,” Microsoft is in for some dire straights ahead because of the failure for Vista to take off as expected and the way things are unfolding in the internet and application development space.
Kind of like I’ve be saying for the past few months (here [...]

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