Omri Gazitt - What is Microsoft doing with Web Services? | TheChannel9Team

Surfer

Why is the video quality so terrible in this video? The other videos are fine but this one is unwatchable.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

I'm watching it here at home and it looks the same as all the other videos.

I encode the videos for multiple bit rates. So, you might be getting served one of the lower bit rates.

What player are you using?

Can you try opening it up in the player itself, and not embedded in the Web page? Does that change it?

dnrfan
It's .NET

Wow! He really explained things really well. I'm not a developer and I got the gist of what was going on. That was great that you got him to talk about web services.

Video was blury, but that was about it. The message got across.

Scoble, the lighting is a little low on some of the vids. I know that video lights are too bright to stick in someones face, but what about some soft diffuse light from about waist height to fill in some missing light? Doesn't need to light up a football stadium, just something to give a small boost.

I know your aiming for the minimalist video experience, but sometimes you need to compensate for light and sometimes sound too.

nektar

What I want to know is what Microsoft is doing in deploying its own public web services. Web services as in those which are provided by Microsoft on its website and which can be used freely by developers.
I know about the technology (Indigo) and the various tools (Visual Studio) that Microsoft is creating to help developers create their own web services but has Microsoft created a web service of its own? Or, does it intend to do so? It seems that Microsoft wants everybody else to deploy web services but where are the Microsoft web services? I can think of many public web services that Microsoft could have deployed. Like, the whole of MSN could have been available in a dozen of web services. MSN Search as well. Downloading products from the download center could have been a web service. Getting security updates could have been a public web service for other developers to utilize. Even the whole of Windows/Office Update could have been a public web service.
I know about the tools Microsoft gives to developers but isn't it time for Microsoft to indicate that it at least uses its own tools to do useful work? Where is the explosion in the use of public web services that we were promised back in 2000?

RyJones
Out Shooting

Looks fine to me. The content was great as well.

omri

Nektar, great question. You're right, there's huge potential for the online MS sites to be exposed as web services. There have been a few good examples of MS web services:

If I'm not mistaken mappoint has been a web service since 2002 (and I believe the first live MS service)
MSDN introduced a WS-Security based service last year to track users
SQL Server stored procs have been exposed as web services since SQLXML3 came out in 2002, and SQL Server Yukon is building more support into the database engine
Passport implements WS-Federation
InfoPath supports using web services as a data source for its forms (in fact DBox and others have created InfoPath forms as front-ends for their blogs)
All BlogX-based blogging engines (dasBlog, .Text, etc) use web services (as does my blog, www.gazitt.com/ohmblog)

All that said I think there's alot more potential out there, and I know of many efforts inside of Microsoft that are based on the WS-* architecture. Many of the examples you mention above are being discussed or in development. Expect to see alot more stuff get exposed as WS over the next couple of years...