Here’s a quick roll up of some of the major announcements during Steve Ballmer’s opening keynote at PDC10 in Redmond, WA.
- Every paying attendee at the PDC will receive at Windows Phone 7 device of their choice.
- Pixar on stage with Windows Azure team – will be rendering movies in Azure using RenderMan in the cloud
- Announced over 1000+ apps for Windows Phone 7 will ship at launch
- Showed the never-before-seen Kindle app for WP7
- Ripped Google for acquiring companies and not integrating them in their cloud
- Java will be first class citizen (double smack against Google’s poor Java support & Apple’s deprecating comments about Java this week)
- Announced the Windows Azure VM role and Server App Virtualization … so sick!
- New to Windows Azure, Microsoft’s operating system in the cloud: Remote Desktop, Virtual Networks, Multiple Admin support
- Team Foundation Server in the Cloud/Azure will allow Google or Yahoo authentication/sign in
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