Next week is Microsoft's much-touted Mix '07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show.
No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the Corporate Vice President in charge of Microsoft's Developer Division said last week that Microsoft would spill all at Mix, which kicks off on April 30 (the same day that Microsoft plans to make available the beta of its Silverlight/Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere tool).
"We want to make sure the programming model is consistent across the cloud, desktop and devices," Somasegar said. That means a consistent set of tools and technologies — developer services, consumer services and extended services — across all of these platforms."