December 1st, 2009 — Silverlight, WPF, Windows Azure
Eye on Earth is a joint venture between Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) to make environmental information more accessible to European citizens. The application uses Windows Azure to gather information from 6,000 air quality monitoring stations and plot them to a Bing Map with a Sliverlight front end.
February 20th, 2009 — Silverlight, Windows Azure
Social Desktop from Microsoft Research is a proof of concept Silverlight application that uses Windows Azure to share, or “socialize”, content on your computer.
The Social Desktop blends the Web and PC by embedding Web oriented sharing inside your desktop, allowing every document to have the ability to have a backing social URL for sharing without having to upload or copy or move it from it’s natural location. his url provides access not just to the file, but to a built in social experience which includes a rich preview of each item, comments, related items, tags, etc.
December 15th, 2008 — Live Mesh, Silverlight, Windows Azure
Tim Anderson has worked through his first Silverlight application using Live Mesh and Windows Azure.
He’s written a piece outlining his observations, it’s not all good, but not all bad either. Seems the most frustrating part has been just finding information. An interesting read and I’m sure you can relate if you’ve ever walked the bleeding edge.
