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It appears that a slip of the agenda may have revealed the name of Microsoft's new "cloud OS," which seems to be named Windows Strata. Or perhaps that's just a code name. Steve Ballmer has said we'd find out more at the Professional Developer's Conference later this month; we just found out a bit early. I wonder more about the substance of Windows Strata.
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Microsoft OOXML Controversy Rises Again
Last week, 13 of 23 members of Norway's International Standards Organization (ISO) committee resigned. They were resigning in protest to Norway's official decision to favor Microsoft's OOXML document format as an ISO standard, despite a "no" vote by 21 of 23 committee members. (Microsoft and Statoil were the Norway committee's only two "yes" votes.)
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Microsoft Adopts jQuery JavaScript Library
Blog entries by Microsoft's Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman today have announced that Microsoft will be supporting the jQuery JavaScript library as part of its official development platform. A jQuery blog entry by John Resig covers the announcement from the jQuery project's perspective.
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Microsoft To Release Oslo Modeling Software Preview
Oslo will be available as an add-on to Microsoft's Visual Studio development suite. It includes a new programming language, a visual modeling tool, and a repository for storing models in a database.
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