Welcome Social Mesh, Device Mesh

Today, at MIX '08 keynote speech, Ray Ozzie, our Chief Software Architect, described a path that will result in the release of the project that I have been working on for sometimes. He said

“I see MIX as the first of a number of key launch milestones. Kind of on a path, with a series of events culminating at PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this October, a path that will bring many of the key elements of our software plus services strategy from incubation to life.”

Later on, he hinted more on the type of Software+Services that may be released in upcoming months. He talked about three core principles that drive the reconceptualization of our software in order to embrace the new world of Software+Services. He called the first principle “Social or Device Mesh” and went on to say how interpersonal nature of the web will ultimately impact everything we do. Everything! < Developers listen carefully....> including a “Centralized, Web-based deployment of device-based applications”. Finally, he talked about what I personally have been working on and feel very excited about.  He described it this way:

“Imagine an App Platform that's cognizant of all of your devices. Now, as it so happens, we've had a team at Microsoft working on this specific scenario for some time now, starting with the PC and focused on the question of how we might make life so much easier for individuals if we just brought together all your PCs into a seamless Mesh, for users, for developers, using the Web as a hub.”

There are good reasons that I cannot give more details, but trust me, developers are in for a big treat by having the ability to build applications on this platform…can’t wait to tell you more…

TechCrunch was quick to publish this post with some screenshots of the presentation slides.....