Microsoft to blur Web and application lines
Talkback I wonder if Microsoft partners can see the sign on the wall.
About: Microsoft to blur Web and application lines
[September 15, 2005, 23:10]
Microsoft to blur Web and application lines
Talkback Unfortunately the affinity MS has for sharing predominently online based software with other online products and then selling it me is about as complelling as renting music. We're not just jamming a bunch of adds at people.have you tried using MSN...
About: Microsoft to blur Web and application lines
[September 14, 2005, 18:20]
RE: Web 2.0 meets CRM: the perfect business application
Blog Comment Hi Ian, I think you're spot on. Keep in mind, SAP is a powerhouse of an organization, and they are already spinning up a SaaS model in SAP ByDesign. Once that solution blossoms and reaches out across industries, SAP may put the heat on Salesforce.com.
[October 31, 2008, 15:03 by 1000272818]
Web 2.0 meets CRM: the perfect business application
Blog Got a social network struggling to make money? How about climbing in to bed with a CRM vendor and charging businesses a fee to keep their data current? It’s easy to get bored of reading press releases from social networking companies announcing...
[October 29, 2008, 15:03 in The Business Web 2.0 by wecando.biz]
Andreessen: The future is PHP
Talkback Tutorial: “Comparing PHP, Java, ASP for web application development": On the above-mentioned “Zend PHP Conference & Expo” in San Francisco Gaylord Aulke, CEO and founder of 100 DAYS, gave a substantial tutorial on “Comparing PHP, Java/J2EE and ASP...
About: Andreessen: The future is PHP
[October 21, 2005, 9:56]
Elevator pitching VaporWare
Blog A web application that enables information architects to create wireframes and sitemaps with simple widgets that can be positioned via drag 'n' drop. AJAX wireframe application Web site editors upload a hi-res image in PNG format.
[October 13, 2009, 17:53 in Web design & FOSS by Jake Rayson]
Photoshop-esque
Blog I’m not exactly ‘first to market’ with the low-down on Sumo Paint, the online image editing web application that has more than a passing resemblance to Photoshop (particularly if you hit F11 using Firefox).
[August 19, 2009, 11:33 in Web design & FOSS by Jake Rayson]
Microsoft announces Silverlight 3 Beta
Blog Mircosoft is positioning Silverlight 3 as a route for web developers and designers to build rich Internet application (RIA) with heavier use of more complex graphics, simulated 3D rendering and animation techniques.
[March 18, 2009, 16:02 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
A blur between applications & content… really?
Blog The argument goes: interactive web 2.0 technology coupled with explosive rich media content is bringing everything closer together and this is a justification for greater use of application management and delivery software.
[May 23, 2008, 14:52 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Egg says rich clients are the future online
Talkback The web is failing to deliver an acceptable user-experience online; the forms-based browser application does a poor job of delivering an interactive and intuitive user-experience. Offering a "single page application" in which users can access and...
About: Egg says rich clients are the future online
[February 11, 2004, 9:25]
SQL injection attacks point to need for more secure software
Blog Rendell also pointed out that more than half of all software vulnerabilities are web application based, however the issue here isn’t just about web application software, it’s a matter of the bad software architecture and design that is endemic in...
[August 26, 2009, 18:39 in Sentry Posts by (ISC)2]
A wider meaning for cross platform development?
Blog With Sun pushing JavaFX Desktop 1.0 out into the Rich Internet Application space last week (and Microsoft’s Silverlight & Adobe’s AIR already out there), the blending of the web with the desktop has never been such a hot topic.
[May 14, 2008, 0:53 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Wrestling with Sumo Paint
Blog Most of us are familiar with Google's web-based applications, but useful as they are, Google Spreadsheet and its perpetual-beta brethren don't yet deliver the look and feel of a desktop application. This remarkably functional web-based image...
[January 27, 2009, 8:47 in Reviews Blog by Charles McLellan]
Bye bye browser?
Blog But a web page and an application are outside the operating system, and if web-centric OSes ever become common, they need to have some way of supporting and interacting with the web. There are things a well written RIA can do that a web page can’t...
[November 6, 2009, 20:16 in 500 words into the future by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe]
Adobe open sources Flash platforms
Blog By releasing OSMF and TLF as open source, we are helping facilitate the creation and sharing of best practices for media players and rich text-based web application development. Adobe also open sourced the Text Layout Framework (TLF), a typography...
[July 21, 2009, 17:17 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
Talkback Also we got web applications that require to install client side software, which is like what's the point of it being a web application? If it's a web application it should run on any browser, any os.
About: Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
[November 5, 2004, 10:58]
SharePoint 2010
Blog SharePoint 2010's Business Connectivity Services link any web service enabled application to SharePoint or Office - without any code. The most obvious change is the name - SharePoint is no longer part of the Office family, even though it’s the...
[October 22, 2009, 21:53 in Reviews Blog by First Take]
Google Docs and Spreadsheets realistic target market... not the enterprise.
Talkback Could this application really offer all the benefits of software like MS Word and Excel in a web-based format? The fact that Google has been developing a few other very impressive web-based applications lately convinced me to at least give it a try.
About: Google brings Writely and Spreadsheets together
[November 17, 2006, 18:26 by msteffen]
Microsoft PDC continues web developer momentum
Blog Microsoft says that innovations in the Silverlight 4 web application framework have been “fuelled” by Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. Jostling for top billing news wise is the beta version of Microsoft Silverlight 4 and the implications this...
[November 19, 2009, 8:17 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
The Great Single Skill Myth
Blog As I have said before on this blog, technologies themselves (in the form of languages etc) are tools - they help us achieve an end game which is the delivery of a product to an end user, be it a web application, desktop application, or even the...
[May 26, 2009, 10:44 in Neil Middleton by neilmiddleton]



