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Microsoft pushed forward on platforms in 2009

By David Worthington

December 28, 2009 — (Page 1 of 2)
2009 was a momentous and turbulent year in Microsoft's history. It made its entrance into cloud computing, and broke convention by donating source code to Linux. Long-term platform efforts came to fruition, and it aggressively accelerated Silverlight development.

Looking beyond the traditional Windows client/server paradigm, Microsoft rolled out an early version of its Windows Azure Platform. The platform consists of the Windows Azure operating system, as well as a range of services, including a relational database called SQL Azure, and AppFabric, which connects on-premise applications to the cloud.

Community Technology Previews (CTPs) of the Windows Azure Platform were released regularly throughout the year, and Microsoft's Server & Tools Business took charge of product development marketing efforts.

Virtualization also played a key role in Microsoft's decision to contribute its Hyper-V kernel drivers to the Linux community. The drivers improve the performance of the Linux operating system when it is virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, but it was also found to have been in violation of the General Public License.

The company embarked on numerous interoperability initiatives throughout the year, including opening Windows Azure to PHP and Java developers, working with the Eclipse Foundation and partners to support Eclipse, participating in the Open Web Foundations' work to incubate Web standards, and establishing the CodePlex Foundation for open-source development on its platforms.

A maturing stack
Ultimately, Microsoft is in business to ship software, and it reached major milestones in 2009. Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2 arrived in lockstep, and BizTalk Server 2009 also shipped.

Windows 7, which launched on Oct. 22, introduced new interface paradigms, including a redesigned task bar and touch-screen technology.

Windows 2008 Server R2 extends hardware support, improves power management, includes live migration of Hyper-V virtual machines, and has more advanced support for remote desktops.

BizTalk Server 2009 brought support for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Windows Server 2008. It incorporates failover clustering features from Windows Server and also supports Hyper-V.

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12/29/2009 12:21:54 AM EST

It's good to see Microsoft coming out with alternative products, new ones and improved ones (like Windows 7), competing vigorously and keeping everybody else on their toes. They have SOME very nice products, but certainly don't get every product and every release right (having then to scramble to fix them up). One thing they need to do a lot better is to make "rip and replace" installations few and far between, unlike (say) replacing Windows XP with Windows 7 rather than a simple upgrade, and making enterprise server upgrades (such as Exchange, according to reports) much more effortless and less costly.

AustraliaTony Austin

12/30/2009 04:56:49 PM EST

It's a great start from a typically closed company, but it's got a long way to go if it wants to compete with market-leaders like Google or Amazon on the cloud front or Blackberry, Apple, and Google on the mobile front. Microsoft needs to focus on making its developer platform more open, free, and fast. Their tools take hours to install and then in the end do not work.

CanadaJohn Rockefeller

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