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simply: Microsoft is launching a synchronization platform that the company claims is technology-agnostic. That absolutely is not true. Live Mesh is Microsoft's attempt to turn operating system and proprietary services platforms into hubs that replace the Web. It's the most anti-Web 2.0 technology yet released by any company. Microsoft is building a services-based operating system that transcends and extends Windows and also the function of Web browsers. It's bold, brilliant and downright scary.

Microsoft has identified the right problem, synchronization, but applied a self-serving solution.
The services platform doesn't seek to keep the Web as the hub, but replace it with something else. The white paper is wonderfully misleading, by implying that Microsoft supports the Web as the hub. Live Mesh is the hub.
Live Mesh is competitively important to Microsoft because of companies like Google, whose services shift computational and informational relevancy from desktop software to the Web. But there is something missing as data spreads out across the Web platform to millions of devices: simple synchronization.
This mesh of services compromises the overlaying platform, which is supported by proprietary Microsoft APIs.
APIs, desktop software and Mesh run-time take on real importance. Users must install Live Mesh software on their PC, which includes the synchronization run-time and makes extension changes to Windows Explorer.
Microsoft's broader Mesh vision extends the operating system to cloud services. Microsoft's PR information refers to the "Mesh Operating Environment," which would presumably grant end users access to applications anytime, anywhere and on anything. Access includes the Web browser, provided it's from Live Desktop. End users would designate devices in their Mesh that would be permitted to run applications. And, yes, it does foreshadow hosted applications as well as those accessed from a Mesh-designated PC.

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Web 2.0 Stovepipe System: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com

podcast with Sir Tim discusses the "linked Data Project" and the Semantic Web contrast to Web 2.0 Social Stovepipe Systems

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“Web 2.0 is a stovepipe system. It’s a set of stovepipes where each site has got its data and it’s not sharing it. What people are sometimes calling a Web 3.0 vision where you’ve got lots of different data out there on the Web and you’ve got lots of different applications, but they’re independent. A given application can use different data. An application can run on a desktop or in my browser, it’s my agent. It can access all the data, which I can use and everything’s much more seamless and much more powerful because you get this integration. The same application has access to data from all over the place.”
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- There you go. The key "editors" today are MSOffice and OpenOffice, neither of which supports advanced W3C formats. Especially XHTML-CSS.
 
 XHTML-CSS is a highly interoperable XML based structuring that effectively separates content and presentation layers. In particular, CSS is a highly portable "presentation" layer. Especially when compared to the wholly application speciifc "presentation" layers in MSOffice XML and OpenOffice OpenDocument XML.
 
 The key is that MSOffice and OpenOffice are powerful desktop "editors" of much of the world's business rich compound documents. With the recent ISO approval of MSOffice XML, billlions of these business process rich "client/server" documents will now become Web Ready and useful to the emerging "client/Web-Stack/server models common to SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing initiatives.
 
 The December 2007 MSOffice SDK contained an important conversion component for the easy conversion of MSOffice XML <> XAML. "fixed/flow". XAML is part of the proprietary WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) set of technologies which inlcude XAML, Silverlight, Smart Tags and LINQ.
 
 The proprietary WPF technologies are alternatives for W3C XHTML-CSS, CDF, SVG, XForms, RDF and SparQL.
 
 Neither desktop "editors" produce advanced W3C XHTML-CSS, SVG, Xforms, RDF, SparQL ready docuemtns. OpenOffice OpenDocument is capable of producing application specific supersets of W3C technologies, but does not fully implement interoperable instances. MSOffice is of course in a world owned entirely by Microsoft and the Microsoft Web-Stack.
 
 No surpirses there. A W3C compliant OpenOffice would not doubt change the world. But then, so would a W3C compliant plug-in for MSSOffice!!!!!! Hello WikiWORED!
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Web 2.0 Silos! Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com

Perpetuating current data silos by continuing to “give your data to a site” was, Berners-Lee asserted, “not ideal.” He argued instead for wider adoption of new or existing Web specifications such as OAuth and RDFAuth, enabling the individual to store data relevant to themselves wherever they felt fit, and assemble it at will within one or more Web and local applications of their choosing at the point of need. “Acquaintance-based social networks,” Berners-Lee suggested, were “the tip of the iceberg,” with his notion of the emerging Giant Global Graph “exist[ing] above the Web” and creating opportunities for far richer functional and role-based interconnections. Turning to consideration of the Web itself, Berners-Lee remarked that “Openness tends to be an inexorable movement through time” He juxtaposed the ‘Web Application Platform’ with proprietary solutions to parts of the problem such as Flash, AIR and Silverlight. This Web Application Platform, he argued, relies upon W3C specifications and other open standards, and it is increasingly moving toward specifications that are small, modular, and interoperable. Moving toward his conclusion, Berners-Lee reiterated the importance of Linked Data again saying “Linked Open Data is the Web done as it should be.” Returning to his earlier discussion of modularity, he suggested that existing specifications such as those for JavaScript be reworked, carving JavaScript’s functionality up into a series of modular packages. Each of those packages should then be assigned a URI, and the Semantic Web should be used to describe the packages, their dependencies, and their interrelationships. Used in conjunction with the resulting applications, Linked Data would provide, “elements of an ability to do things [with data] that cross application boundaries.” Turning to Q&A, Berners-Lee was first asked to comment on the concept of ‘Web 2.0′, which he did; “Web 2.0 sites are silos.” “A centralised solution cannot compete with a decentralised one in the long term… If we have to call anything ‘Web 3.0′, it will be when social pressure forces these sites to let go of your data.”

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Meshing the desktop into the cloud | Software as Services | ZDNet.com

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The Mesh lives but the cloud Office is vaporous | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com

I don't think Dan Farber gets it. ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML establishes MSOffice as a standards compliant web/cloud/WOA "editor" for client/Web-Stack/server systems. No need to try to squeeze all tha tcomplexity into a browser. Just use the MSOffice SDK OOXML <> XAML conversion component to convert rich, business process loaded, documents to a web ready format. OH my, XAML is proprietary and IE-8 does not support XHTML2, CSS3, SVG, XForms, RDF, SPARQL, SWF, PDF or JavaScript. Bummer. ISO has done the unthinkable and Microsoft can now break the web without worry of anti trust retribution. They are after all, simply implementing an open standard.

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Meshing the desktop into the cloud | Software as Services | Phil Wainewright ZDNet.com

At the Web 2.0 Expo Microsoft introduced "Live Mesh", integrating the MSOffice desktop with the Web, as an integral part of the Cloud. Here we go. The race to take the open web is on, and Microsoft is off to a stunning start.

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The problem with Forrester’s $4.6 billion prediction | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com

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‘Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,’ say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com

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Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com

The Apache CFX "Interoperability Framework" for SOA Project is ready. We really could have used CFX in the 2003 Comcast project where a Tomcat/MYSQL Web-Stack connected to many disparate blackboxes. The blackboxes were standalone "Inventory and Billing" transaction processing data centers aquired by Comcast during a five year burst of acquisitions. Of course, none of these blackboxes could talk to any other! Enter SOA with XMLHTTPRequest streams. 2002-2003. We needed CFX to scale!

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CXF is really designed for high performance, kind of like a request-response style of interaction for one way, asynchronous messaging, and things like that. But it’s really designed for taking data in from a variety of transports and message formats, such as SOAP or just raw XML. If you bring in the Apache Yoko project, we have CORBA objects coming in off the wire. It basically processes them through the system as quickly as possible with very little memory and processing overhead. We can get it to the final destination of where that data is supposed to be, whether it’s off to another service or a user-developed code, whether it’s in JavaScript or JAX-WS/JAXB code.

That’s the goal of what the CXF runtime is — just get that data into the form that the service needs, no matter where it came from and what format it came from in, and do that as quickly as possible.
the fascinating intersection of SOA and WOA — with on-premises services and cloud-based resources (including data) supporting ecologies of extended enterprises business processes
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- Funny but i never thought of SOA as somehow separate from the Web. A Web-Stack is how one connects the disparate backend data streams. New applications capable of acting on that data are written to the Web, not some aging client/server platform model. I guess others had a different view of SOA and are just now discovering the interop and exchange value of the Web. Very strange.
  posted by garyedwards on 2008-04-21 16:55:34
Creating federated relationships between private and public clouds and their services and resources requires more than just industry standards. It requires visibility and access, the type that comes from open source communities and open use licenses.

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OOXML/ODF: Just One Battlefield in a Much Bigger War | Brian Proffitt Linux Today

Brian figures out that the document wars are really about Cloud Computing. Big vendors IBM, Sun, Google and Microsoft are jockeyign for position in our cloud computing future. And this is why Microsoft MUSt get ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML! What Brian misses is the key to a Microsoft Cloud that can be found int he MSOffice SDK; the OOXML<>XAML conversion component. XAML, Silverlight and Smart Tags replace W3C XHTML-CSS, SVG-Flash, and RDF. Makign the MS Cloud one where Microsoft owned protocols, formats and .NET components dominate all processes. ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML establishes MSOffice as a standards "editor", thus masking the cloud computing shift to XAML. A shift that will lock out all other Web 2.0 - Cloud providers dependent on Open Web - W3C protocols and formats!

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When SOAs rule the world

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TCG Advisors envisions a new computing model for when the inter-enterprise becomes the basis of all IT infrastructure. Where
can we expect the most change?

All the action is going to be in the middle [layer] in preparation for a significant change at the top in about five years.
We are all [preparing] for a new business model: the inter-enterprise network value chain. For the inter-enterprise network
value chain, traditional business applications need to be re-architected so they can cross company boundaries. When people
look at this re-architecting, they see two huge barriers: the middleware, because our software doesn't work this way, and
the business process layer, because people don't have a lot of experience [with it]. There will be a fair amount of trial
and error before we figure this out. Even thought leaders are struggling.
The goal has been managing information. We're shifting from managing information to
managing processes. Information is an important attribute in process management, but it's not the goal. So trying to turn
data into information is the wrong way to look at the problem. What we are trying now is to manage processes across multiple
states, where any portion of the process can be in multiple states. So you have to keep state - which is a computing idea
- and you have to coordinate actions among self-managing logic. That's the service-oriented architecture paradigm.
What service-oriented architectures let you do is recombine - they are like Legos
- to make all kinds of innovations out of the existing components of the world. This is very productive. If you're stuck in
a client/server system you can't participate in that.
The classic microprocessor architecture that Intel dominated
is going to become much less relevant. More relevant will be a network processing style of architecture. Everything is going
to become a router.

Introducing Microsoft Online Services

The MS Cloud has arrived!!!! Grab your ankles and kiss your ever lovin Open Web good-bye. This is a video describing how Microsoft Online Services can add value to your organization. Interestingly, the software-plus-service offerings from Microsoft are being marketed as a way for corporate IT to break free; reducing systems management cost and operation overhead while leveraging existing "rich client" systems. Meaning, MSOffice is now connected to the MS Cloud. The transition of legacy client/server systems to MS Cloud hosted client/Web-Stack /server systems can now begin. No doubt the recent ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML played no small part in this announcement!

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Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Dion Hinchcliffe's best post yet on SOA interoperability difficulties and the promise of solvign those problems with advancing Web 2.0 technologies.

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IT|Redux - On Salesforce.com and Google

Ismael covers the Google-SalesForce.com mashup agreement

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