"We'll work to ensure that Internet Explorer is the best browser for Windows without compromise. A standards-based, modern browser to its core." That's Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's pledge during his PDC keynote earlier this week (see video below at 6:30). Whether the company can keep it is another story. Skeptics will point to IE's tortured history with Web standards and delayed implementation of popular features such as tabbed browsing. Others will note that Mozilla and Google are constantly innovating with their own browsers, and IE will have a hard time keeping up. And don't even get people started on browser speed tests.
But when it comes to Microsoft's cloud vision, IE developers will at least have a leg up on how the browser and other Microsoft software components will hook into Azure. And it is Azure that is the main focus of Ozzie's keynote. If you have a few hours to spare, watch what he and other Microsoft engineers have to say about how the various pieces will fit together:
Video: PDC 09 Day One Keynote
Image: Ray Ozzie, Professional Developers Conference video screenshot
Sources and research: Cnet, Wired, TheStandard.com, Microsoft press website, email and phone call with Waggener Edstrom (Microsoft PR).
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