I forgot to add the support for non-Microsoft technologies in Azure. Want Linux? It's there. PHP? Ruby? Done and done. There are other non-MS techs supported too.


>Just last night I attended a packed ASP.NET session at MS in Phila. Part of it was given by John V Petersen, who I think once hung out here.
>The other speaker, Jeff Fritz, a lead developer at Telerik, is in the same league as JVP- top notch.
>Their focus was on MS's push to get all the disparate pieces of ASP.NET - MVC, Web API, Webforms and SignalR working as one framework more readily.
>HTML5 and jquery came up in passing, but some of the things they showed when all those things come together were impressive.
>The whole is more powerful than the parts.
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>The buzz words were there in abundance, and there was the usual fluff, but one takeaway is that MS is listening for ways to improve ASP.NET and is reacting quickly.
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>MS might be shooting itself in the foot in other areas, but ASP.NET could very well become its shining star in the world of business development.
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