Microsoft exposed future R & D focus: cloud computing and parallel computing

According to foreign media reports, a senior Microsoft official said in his blog on Tuesday that Microsoft will set up a new investment list, new or continuous investment in software development space and other fields will be made in multiple fields, including cloud computing, network, parallel computing, devices, distributed development, and other fields.

 

According to reports, Microsoft's Development Department, senior vice president samasegar (S. somasegar) in his blog titled "Key Software Development Trends", said in the article: Microsoft is setting future investment priorities, and has noticed an increasing number of developers with unique programming styles. Compared with the past, today's developers are more willing to consider and use a variety of technologies that allow them to build solutions smoothly, results and products can be quickly handed over to their customers. In terms of cloud computing, Microsoft is committed to providing the best cloud computing platform and Windows system services to customers.

Although Microsoft's next-generation Cloud technology platform is not explicitly mentioned in the article, it clearly refers to Microsoft's Windows azure cloud computing platform. In this regard, samasegar said: cloud computing is a typical virtualized computing platform and development tools that allow the next generation of developers to better develop software and execute the cloud, as well as provide the best other virtual environments.

In the article titled "using Web as a platform", samajar said: Future browsers will provide a wide range of operating environments and applications for "non-friction access. He pointed out: using JavaScript libraries can help Web developers do more things. Combining JavaScript with Microsoft's Silverlight platform will become a typical development trend of network technology in the future. Developers are increasingly choosing web as their preferred platform and software development direction. More and more developers and designers are using various tools to provide rich web development, debugging, analysis and page design and production experience.

According to Moore's Law, the CPU performance doubles every 18 months. At present, more processor cores are being added to improve the performance, sataral said in parallel computing. Currently, few programmers can write programs in multi-core and multi-core environments. However, in the future, parallel computing libraries, debugging, analysis, and diagnostic tools will allow more developers to take advantage of parallel computing resources ."

Microsoft is striving to increase its attention to parallel computing and continuously improve the user interface of its software, according to samarasegar. To ensure Microsoft's advantages in this aspect, it will continuously increase and improve speech, camera, touch screen and other solutions. On Windows 7, a lot of good experiences have been made, including the Silverlight and WPF platforms.

In terms of distributed development, Microsoft will conduct code reviews and remote matching programming development activities based on cloud computing.

Samarasegar asked bloggers to pay attention to other important development trends of Microsoft. Microsoft will build a great next-generation Software Development Team, and Microsoft will develop excellent distributed tools and build a talent pool for global developers.