Today I attended Steve Ballmers keynote at Technet Live in Oslo. I really enjoyed the keynote, and listening to Steve is always inspiring.
As Steve said, being in the software industry today is the best time ever! Software is the future of everything, and we are just starting to see the possibilities. Steve did a couple of cool announcements today, about FAST and about Windows “Cloud”. First, Norway is becoming the headquarter for enterprise search. I think this is very interesting, as having a Microsoft r&d in Norway makes Norway very visible and gives us attention. Again, this shows the importance of NTNU´s education and research on search. ( I give that credit to the NTNU search community, I strongly belive that it is the best in the world). As for FAST I think this is a superb opportunity to really show how great they are at search :)
The other announcment was about Windows for cloud computing. As Steve said this is going to be announced at PDC, so he just called it “Windows Cloud” for now. This I think is very interesting, as it gives us a “Windows” version for cloud computing. I´m really looking forward to learn the details about this. I´ll keep you posted :) As far as I understand this technology for now, it´s about seamless developing and running programs on servers and on “internet”. This could be really cool concept, if we can take the “Windows” development skills and put them to use on the Internet directly. Looking forward to learn more about this :)
