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One of Microsoft;s mystery males behind the cloud, David Treadwell,Office Home And Stude/nt, has gone public having a number of updates coming to Microsoft;s evolving Windows Reside improvement platform.(Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Platform Solutions, is among the people in cost of the 4 Reside platform layers outlined by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie last yr.)Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of its Live development-platform strategy more than the previous year or two, but nothing much lately.Treadwell — in a February 27 entry on the Windows Live Dev blog — said to expect Microsoft to unveil these Reside platform updates at its Mix ‘08 conference next week numerous updates, including: New services & existing services progressStandardization of frameworks & protocolsNew pre-release services/tools for experimentation and feedbackWindows Reside Quick Applications (demo web sites) updates Specifically, Microsoft is making available to developers a new Windows Reside Messenger Library, which will enable third parties to make their wares interoperable with Microsoft;s instant-messaging network. Microsoft;s existing Contacs application programming interface (API) is now in beta,Microsoft Office Pro Plus, according to Treadwell;s post. Silverlight Streaming, Microsoft;s hosted storage for Silverlight,Office 2007 Enterprise, which company officials introduced at Mix ‘07 a yr back,Office 2010 Activation, is now in beta.Meanwhile,Microsoft Office 2010 Key, Microsoft is going to be stepping up its Reside companies support for the Atom syndication protocol, Treadwell said. He blogged:“Microsoft is making a large investment in unifying our developer platform protocols for providers on the open, standards-based Atom format (RFC 4287) and the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023). At MIX we are enabling several new Reside solutions with AtomPub endpoints which enable any HTTP-aware application to easily consume Atom feeds of photos and for unstructured application storage (see below for far more details). Or you can use any Atom-aware public tools or libraries, such as .NET WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Syndication to read or write these cloud service-based feeds.”Treadwell also made reference to a new “experimental API” known as “application based storage.” This API will allow develoeprs to store “a small total of state/configuration data in the Windows Reside data centers on behalf of a user.”“The real value kicks in here if an application was to have hundreds of thousands of users as the storage is offloaded to Windows Reside infrastructure,” Treadwell explained.Any of these new Reside Dev platform enhancements of interest to any Web developers out there?