Microsoft Leading the Adoption of Web Standards
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Microsoft is leading the adoption of
Web standards with its long-term commitment to the HTML5 standards process and
platform investments spanning Internet Explorer, Windows Phone and Windows 7.
Hachamovitch highlighted projects from the Microsoft HTML5 Labs site,
where the company provides prototypes of early specifications from standards
bodies, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Microsoft also is focusing on standards
and cloud development, helping developers more easily scale their apps to
multiple devices and platforms. In his keynote, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice
president, .NET Developer Platform, discussed how the Windows Azure platform
empowers developers to use their existing skills to build, host and scale Web
applications in the cloud.
Microsoft announced the commercial
availability of new Windows Azure capabilities, including services that
accelerate application performance and enable secure and open access to Web
applications through popular identity providers, including Microsoft, Facebook
and Google. A new community technology preview of traffic management capability
for Windows Azure is also available today, enabling developers to more easily
balance application performance across multiple geographies. In addition, Guthrie
announced a preview of a Windows Azure content delivery network for
media-streaming capabilities, available at the end of June. More information
about these updates is available here.
In addition to its commitment to HTML5,
Web standards and cloud interoperability, Microsoft discussed its commitment to
sponsoring open-source projects, such as the Orchard project, a free content
management system (CMS) project in the Outercurve Foundation's ASP.NET Open
Source Gallery. Orchard 1.1 is available today, along with new Amazon.com,
UserVoice and DISQUS modules that contribute to the growing number of
community-authored extensions for Orchard.
Microsoft also announced a refresh of
ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, which enables Web developers to innovate quickly
and easily via new HTML 5 markup support, Entity Framework 4.1 with Entity Code
First now built in for easier database Web solution development, and expanded
NuGet capabilities for finding and installing community components.
