>>One of the things I like about ASP.NET MVC is there has been a lot of community involvement from the start. In fact the highly regarded Spark view engine, which I am surprised Scott did not mention by name, originated from a guy in the community, Lou Dejardin. (He now works on the team at Microsoft).
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>>Halfway off topic, regarding a recent discussion about online training resources, PluralSight was recommended, as always, and I said TekPub is another that should be considered. At least as far as ASP.NET MVC, TekPub's content is superior.
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>There are so many new technologies being released that it's pratically impossible to keep touch of what they are and what they do. Just yesterday, for example, we have seen the introduction of the release of Google Go. But, on Microsoft side, there are a lot of them, especially those with the 3-letter acronyms. :)
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>Some of them they come and they go. It's very difficult to predict which one will remain longer than another. I think the goal to achieve a better success is to remain as generic as possible. So, if something changes, the adaptation would be easier.
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>There was a big boom with Azure for a long period and now, rarely do I find something about it. I remember having released a news recently about some content related to it. But, things are changing. Maybe it is going as strong but we see less content being released about it. Under ASP.NET, there are a lot of sub technologies, such as expressed in Scott's blog about MVC. I prefer to remain at the .NET Framework level, so at least, as this is at a higher hierarchy, I am less into being affected by rapidly changed and supported sub technologies at Microsoft. But, it's worth reading and knowing about it. Scott has been releasing valuable material since a while so I thought it would be interesting to have it in our news.

The ASP.NET MVC origin story is that Scott Guthrie came up with the idea on an airplane. The MVC pattern has been around since the 1970s but he was the one who thought it would be a good fit for ASP.NET.

I have never been a complete believer in Azure. The thought of putting core corporate data out in the cloud is a huge barrier to acceptance. Microsoft is still pushing it hard, so who knows.