November 6, 2007
2:38 pm
The biggest news out of the Microsoft TechEd Developers conference that kicked off on November 5 is the official announcement of Microsoft’s offline/online sync platform.
Microsoft’s strategy around the platform is what’s more intriguing to me than the actual platform itself.
The actual Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1 bits are somewhat dull. As one developer I know said: “It’s ADO.NET Sync Services plus FAT/NTFS file sync, Ray Ozzie’s Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) for peer-to-peer sync of RSS/Atom feeds, and some arm-waving about ‘custom data synchronization.’”
Here are a few tidbits about the sync framework that I did find interesting, however[...]
Microsoft, Sync Services, Article
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