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Microsoft's 'Oslo': A Piece of a Big Picture

(Redmond Developer News) Steve Guggenheimer, GM of the Microsoft Application Platform, discusses Microsoft's approach. "When we think about the Application Platform, we think about a set of connected capabilities, from the architecture to services to business processes to the data to the development environment, and how all of that connects at the user-experience layer."

Microsoft Learns to Love the Net

(Financial Times) Richard Waters sets the context around the Microsoft path to Web services and highlights the company's unique leadership position for building out the infrastructure to accommodate the "services wave."

In The Mix

(Forrester) Jeffrey Hammond blogs about MIX 2008. The Microsoft Silverlight/Nokia announcement is "a concrete example of how .NET anywhere could bridge the gaps between the islands of content and data that compartmentalize my digital life."

Case Studies
Microsoft Application Platform Case Study - McLaren

"The essence of the problem we faced was how to deal effectively with a high volume of time series data. Prior to SQL Server 2008, this was not something that we felt any database could really handle properly." — Paul Spence, Product Director, McLaren Electronic Systems

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Microsoft Application Platform Announcements - Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008:

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.