Will the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) work in an Enterprise model?

There has been a lot of talk about the sort of market Microsoft are aiming the WP7 at. Currently it is lacking in features which would support the Enterprise market place compared to the Iphone and other key devices.

Good article on some of this. Read Here

More details are due to follow in the coming weeks.

MIX10 Day 2 Keynote Summary

The Microsoft MIX10 Day Keynote had the highly anticipated Internet Explorer 9 details as it's headline.

I must say it looks like Microsoft our keen in getting back in front with the Web Browser market.

IE 9 looks to be Microsoft's most sought after release for quite some time, offering all the features which people are after. Standards based, performance, ease of use and debugging. The keys to IE9 are it has been designed from ground up to perform fast without the need for developers to develop multiple path code to support cross browsers. Any code written with HTML5 and standards in mind should look and behave the same on different browsers. Microsoft are working hard at improving Javascript performance by providing a new Javascript engine designed from new which pre compiles code on multiple threads, performance is also improved by utilizing the machines GPU. Various demonstrations show how IE9 compared to other browsers on the market - results were fascinating, logon to MIX10 and see for yourself.

The other interesting area to IE9 is that Microsoft are fully backing SVG which has been a technology which for quite some time. This should allow a much richer experience on client side web applications.

Internet Explorer 9 Summary

• Platform Preview announced and available for download.
• Designed and built from ground up to support HTML 5
• Performance is key to the requirements and design
• New Javascript engine which precompiles code on multiple threads, named "Chakra"
• GPU Based acceleration
• Standards Support, meaning that you shouldn't need to have special code for different browsers.
• ACID Test of 55/100 currently
• HTML 5 Video supported. Great example of youtube without a flash plugin.
• SVG1.1 Support
• Updated developer tools including a network monitoring tab

Serviced powered experiences

• API layer on websites, not just browser based access. Publish data through the API layer (RIA, AJAX etc) for public use
• OData solution
• SQL Azure will support OData
• OData SDK and Clients available Download

Other

• Visual Studio 2010 still coming in April
• ASP.NET 4, MVC2.0 coming in April with VS2010
• Commited to support jQuery
• jQuery based templating

Codename Houston

• Silverlught based SQL Server managment studio for SQL Azure

For more details and to watch the keynote please goto http://live.visitmix.com/

MIX10 - 1st Day Keynote

Microsoft MIX 10 launched on Monday 15th March with it's first key note:

The following is a summary from the Key Note:

• Silverlight 4 RC with the final release coming very soon.


• Demontration of Silverlight by Ebay


• Microsoft have annouced they are releasing the source code their 2010 Winter Olympics Player


• Expression Blend 4 RC is available from today with a free upgrade from Expresion Blend 3


• Development platform for Windows Phone 7 announced.


• Demos of several applications for the Windows 7 Phone


• Demonstrations of Silverlight applications on the Windows 7 Phone


• Windows 7 Emulator fully mimics the phone including low battery conditions.


• Game development with XNA was demonstrated.


• Demonstration by Shazam for their music service on the Windows 7 Phone.

Keynote 2 will be later today with more details expected on Internet Explorer 9.

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McLaren Website offers LIVE Telemetry

The 2010 F1 season has just started.

The McLaren site is offering LIVE telemetry on their cars from the website. You can view data from the engineers and comments from the drivers. The current car positions and car data is all updated in real time on the website.

Rather cool if you are interested in all the statistics and stuff.

http://mclaren.com/home

Roll on qualifying and race day.