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• 23 Apr 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  At the Web 2.0 Expo Microsoft introduced "Live Mesh", integrating the MSOffice desktop with the Web, as an integral part of the Cloud. Here we go. The race to take the open web is on, and Microsoft is off to a stunning start.

  SOA cloud-computing Microsoft MSOffice OOXML XAML Live-Mesh

  • Instead of seeing the Web as an extension of the desktop, it includes the desktop as part of the continuum of the Web. Where then does the application sit? Not on the desktop, or on any identifiable server machine, but simply in the mesh. In other words, it becomes a service, capable of running anywhere in the cloud, including on the desktop.
  • “haven’t we seen some of this before? A service which offers both synchronization and replication? Remember Lotus Notes and Groove? … Ray Ozzie was the creative force behind Notes, Groove, and now, Live Mesh.”

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  Gary Edwards on 2008-04-23
  Mesh is Microspeak for the Microsoft owned "Web"! Keep a close eye on the advanced formats and protocols and API access to infrastructure services. Ther ewill be two classes available. Web 1.0 formats and protocols standardized by the W3C and ISO. And higher level, "complex" formats and protocols proprietary to Microsoft. The MS Web-Stack, Live-Mesh, and IEcan speak both low and high, but the MSOffice desktop speaks only high level OOXML <> XAML-Silverlight-Smart Tags-LINQ

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