Microsoft's Development Revolution: from desktop to cloud computing

The era of personal computer dominance is over, and Microsoft is under pressure to take a taste of the internet and get free access to enterprise-class online apps like Google. Especially in times of economic downturn, users will naturally weigh the pros and cons of these choices, making Microsoft have to rethink the traditional business model of "buying licenses" in the past.





in accordance with the "Software + Services" strategy, Microsoft in November 2008 released a cloud computing platform Windowsazure, the platform with the world around the huge data centers and networks to form the platform of globalization. Microsoft customers, partners, and developers can quickly deploy their own developed application services on Azure, in a pay-as-you-go manner.





the advent of the cloud computing era, the software development model and business model into a new era. VS2010 is the express that leads to Microsoft cloud computing.





the Clouds





May 15, 2009, the Hangzhou municipal government and Microsoft to build a "Software development innovation Service Platform" officially on the line, the platform combined with Microsoft development tool solutions and cloud computing platform, to small and medium-sized software enterprises and software outsourcing enterprises to provide the whole process on-demand services. According to the head of Hangzhou Zhejiang Xinda Digital Technology Co., Ltd., the first to eat crabs, the company's use of this platform, the annual research and development of investment costs can save 70%.





IDC has data that Microsoft in China earns 1 yuan each, the partner earns 16.89 Yuan. Using VS2010 may help Microsoft's Chinese partners to further enhance their value-added capabilities.





survey found that at present, many enterprises are still using the old version of the development tools. But soon they will find they may not be able to keep up with the pace of cloud computing.




Unlike the traditional development model, the development of the cloud computing era emphasizes that anyone can develop in any location, code authoring, collaboration, debugging, testing, deployment, and operation are all
in the cloud. Cloud computing provides more storage and processing power. Fundamentally, it eliminates the limitations of development, and developers no longer have to endure the constraints of limited physical resources.





but for traditional applications to take advantage of the cloud computing age, you need to make significant changes to the architecture of your application. Although Azure can satisfy most of the cloud computing work, there is a drawback that the development cycle is generally longer.





VS2010 is born to solve this crucial problem. VS2010 provides a cloud computing development service platform that includes virtual computing, scalable storage, and automated service management systems to interact with heterogeneous platforms and other developers through a dedicated project model, an open application interface. Developers can develop, test, and deploy Azure applications on this platform, dramatically shortening the development lifecycle of cloud computing systems.





"VS2010 is better integrated with Microsoft's cloud computing platform. One developer said, "Put the package on the cloud, turn off your computer, use any computer to access the network, the program already exists, and everyone is sharing computing power." And in VS2010, you just have to do a very simple operation. ”





data show that as of January 23, 2010, VS2010 's second beta version of the global download volume of more than 580,000 people, in just 2.5 months, the mainland China has a total of more than 100,000 downloads, more than India ranked after the United States ranked second.





difficult to reject the vision





in early 2009, a Microsoft technician walked into the Chongqing Gold Abacus headquarters Building, which began providing online software leasing services to its customers in 2005. Like many people, the leader of the gold Abacus is also confused "cloud computing".





but the vision of Microsoft's cloud computing is hard to resist: Business owners can use mobile phone or PDA to inquire about orders, manage and operate in the office, use PC to manage enterprise, do business; in the dock with the barcode scanner with the staff ready to handle container warehousing, and the enterprise does not need to worry about IT systems, Because all information has been put on the "cloud" ...





a few weeks later, the Gold Abacus formally and Microsoft began the cloud computing landing work. Microsoft has a large number of programs and data maintenance work through its own servers, and the gold Abacus provides services to SMEs through Microsoft Azure cloud computing to meet growing customer needs.





Gold Abacus Vice president and product director Wei Juan said: "Before the SME customers buy their own servers, set up technical staff, buy software license." And on the cloud computing platform, users can choose any software, and put the operation, storage, maintenance of a set of services to the "cloud" can achieve faster and more efficient than traditional PC software development, deployment and upgrades, not only it maintenance costs greatly reduced, but also more focused on business development. Companies do not even have to do it construction, directly to a professional cloud computing service provider like Microsoft.





now, Gold Abacus customers have migrated to this platform.





Gold Abacus Another major reason for working with Microsoft is that the gold abacus has been developed using the Microsoft Visual Studio tool. Wei Juan to reporters that the gold Abacus has been concerned about VS2010, because the development tool not only has the project management function, but also will fully support the Microsoft Cloud computing platform, so that their application software development quickly into the era of cloud computing.





But some customers complain that at present, Microsoft's cloud computing applications are not localized enough, many of the software used in foreign countries to the landing in China, but also to adapt to China's national conditions, or to attract more Chinese third-party software development Enterprises to join. Shenwey, general manager of Microsoft Greater China Development tools and Platform division, said, "Microsoft is a platform company, to make this platform really can become a profit model, is very important to Microsoft, one of the main factors is how to effectively integrate Third-party partners, so that they can be developed on this platform. ”





Visual Studio Changes





as a development tool for the next-generation platform, VS2010 also provides many tools to help developers develop Windows7 based applications, while also enabling unmanaged applications that already exist to apply the characteristics of the new operating system after certain processing. VS2010 enables Microsoft to have a wealth of resources and capabilities to directly provide developers with a full range of development and running software services.





in addition, Visual Studio and Microsoft platform seamless integration, but also other development tools can not provide. Not only is the PC-side operating system, Microsoft's mobile operating system, embedded operating system and cloud operating system positioning Visual Studio as a "Queen" development tool, making VS2010 become Microsoft "three screens one cloud" strategy of an important fulcrum.





Bleum Software Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a European and American market-oriented software outsourcing enterprises, the company, a person in charge that VS2010 in software design, development and testing and management have made great strides.





software development is increasingly integrated, large-scale, networked, the quality of software and management requirements also increased. From VS2005, Microsoft has specifically joined the team collaboration management platform covering the software development lifecycle to help developers adapt to managing rapidly changing business needs, address barriers to communication between project managers, developers, and testers, and organize team members to perform a reasonable division of labor to achieve efficient work. Enhance the enterprise's control over the software development process. and VS2010 the management tool to strengthen.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)