Microsoft is busy laying out its cloud app roadmap for developers at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2010.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and the company’s tools president Bob Muglia showed how Microsoft is enabling developers to build cloud apps and how the Microsoft platform spans mobile devices, desktop and the cloud.
“Microsoft is combining the power and reach of the cloud with both web and local device experiences, Ballmer said, in a statement. There has never been a better time for developers to bet on Microsoft.”
Meanwhile, Muglia said with Microsoft’s Windows developers can use existing skills to build new web and enterprise apps.
“Only Windows Azure delivers general purpose PAAS [Platform-As-A-Service], which allows developers the breadth of services needed to allow them to focus on their applications and not the underlying infrastructure or virtualising machines,” Muglia said in a statement. “Imagine having all of the IT infrastructure, hardware, OS and tools you need to support an app just a few mouse clicks away – it opens up so many possibilities worldwide. We are looking forward to seeing the amasing things our customers will build with our PAAS offering.
Microsoft also announced several Windows Azure services for developers.
Microsoft announced the Windows Azure AppFabric Composition Model to speed the process of assembling services by providing application development and management capabilities. Microsoft also announced the Windows Azure Marketplace, including DataMarket (formerly “Project Dallas”), offering premium and public demographic, financial, mapping, and entertainment data and other content, Microsoft said.
Meanwhile, during his keynote at the PDC, Ballmer underscored Microsoft’s commitment to HTML5, noting how developers can fuse the full hardware acceleration and site-centric design in Internet Explorer 9 to tap into the power of the PC hardware, transforming their websites to feel more like native Windows applications.
“HTML5 is the glue that holds all of this together,” Ballmer said.
Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s general manager for Internet Explorer said Microsoft has seen more than 10 million downloads of IE9 since the beta was released six weeks ago.
Hachamovitch also announced that Microsoft has delivered Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 6, which features better performance and more standards support. The new preview is available at http://www.IETestDrive.com.
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