Microsoft to Detail Its Live Platform Services

The end of October 2008 will only be in part about Windows 7, as far as the Redmond company is concerned. Microsoft is in fact planning to focus just as strongly on its evolving Cloud platform. While Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer already indicated that the software company is gearing up to unveil Windows Cloud, at the Professional Developers Conference starting on October 27 in Las Vegas, the software giant will also detail its Live Platform Services. The promise is that developers will not only receive information on the infrastructure behind the Live technologies, but will also get to play around with the tools that permit building applications, especially when it comes down to Live Mesh.

“What are the platform infrastructure details behind the Mesh technologies? Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services, David Treadwell, will be spilling all the beans in his PDC keynote in just a few weeks, but in this Q&A he gives us a sneak peek,” revealed Denise Begley, Microsoft Marketing Manager. At the bottom of this article, you will find an embedded video featuring Treadwell, in which the Live Platform Services VP gives a taste of his keynote at PDC2008.

“David explains how there’s so much more to Mesh than just the user experience, and how he and his team will be revealing the underlying particulars that fall below the line at PDC - the platform infrastructure that helps developers build stellar Software + Services apps. And did Treadwell mention bits that will be given out at the PDC? We think he did, but you gotta listen to find out more about what the PDC team affectionately calls the "goods",” Begley added.

Come PDC2008, Microsoft will permit developers to leverage the infrastructure below Live Mesh, what Treadwell referred to as the rest of the iceberg, in order to build their own user experiences. Treadwell promised that PDC2008 participants would be able to tap the deep rich infrastructure underneath the user experience shell.


Countdown to PDC2008: What the heck are Microsoft’s Live Platform Services? Treadwell Tells All!