Beat the shit out of them...

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/ie9_bests_chrome_html5_test


Microsoft motto is still the same - it is important to be second...
And MS is also proving one additional point, people are true and only company's resource...

Once the MS politics decided on new target, it has most brilliant world resources on its disposal...

Living as a MS partner firm and developing products can be very stressful, because of sheer brute power that MS can resolve to and enter niche market you were working in...

It happened to me, when I've developed only true Windows Media PVR system in the world, client side, server side with DRM or not, complete success brought to production phase in Norway...

The MS brought Smooth Streaming, and all market advantage had gone down the drain :)

But, hey :)
We have new toys :D

Connecting to Remote WMS Server...

using Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

try
{
// Declare variables.
Type tServerType;
WMSServer RemoteServer;

// Retrieve the type information from the Windows
// Media server running on the remote machine.
tServerType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("WMSServer.Server",
"remote_computer_name");

// Create an instance of the remote server object locally.
RemoteServer = (WMSServer)Activator.CreateInstance(tServerType);
}
catch (COMException comExc)
{
// TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

More on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741994

Windows Phone 7 Rules...

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL01

Advanced video processing

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004433-56.html

What more to say...
It seems like magic...

DirectCompute on my hardware?

Well, there is nice benchmark tool for comparative testing:
http://www.ngohq.com/news/16710-first-directcompute-benchmark-released.html

Compare CPU vs OpenCL vs DirectCompute....

Nice :)

PEX - Automated regression testing...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Pex/

If you haven’t opened this link already, then you don’t need one. Any additional commend is unnecessary..

How will Microsoft conquer iPhone and Android markets?

It will use his greatest strengths, great IT community and great IT infrastructure.
But how :)
Simple, provide development infrastructure .NET runtime to selected platforms.

And Mono project is created, five years ago…

So now we are ready for next MS IT ecosystem step-in.