The Tech Ed Conference is in full swing, and Investintech is already seeing –and hearing, some interesting things from the conference floor.
Bill Gates walks down memory lane at the Tech Ed Conference
In his last public speech as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect (CSA), Bill Gates took over 6,000 software developers at Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 in Orlando on a walk down memory lane and then outlined his vision for the future of application development.
Describing himself as a developer at heart, Gates provided a brief look back at how far software development has come since he co-founded Microsoft over 30 years ago. He recalled fondly the days of working in DOS and writing software programs that only required 6k of memory.
Those days are of course long past now and with Gates transitioning out of a full time role at Microsoft on July 1, he devoted the majority of his keynote to the future.
The central theme here and for all of Tech Ed for that matter, is that cloud computing is the next big thing.
Microsoft is betting on this in a big way and Gates made it clear that this is driving a lot of what Microsoft is doing on the application development and services front.
Within the application development realm , Gates pointed to Project Oslo, Microsoft’s application-development plan for making it easier for developers to build SOAs (service-oriented architectures). SOAs allow the underlying software running a company’s network to communicate with software and pieces of software outside the firewall using standard network and application interfaces to create composite applications.
On the services side, Gates made mention of the fact that Microsoft is embracing the hosted services business model by investing in building the industry’s largest data centers for services.
Gates noted: “We’re taking everything we do at the server level and saying we will have a service that mirrors that exactly,???
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