Dan Rigsby – Coding Up Style

While doing my daily visits to the Microsoft PDC session list, I noticed a new session tag:

What is “Windows Strata”? The sessions with this tag are:

• A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer
• A Lap around Cloud Services
• Architecting Services for the Cloud
• Business Considerations for Cloud Computing
• Datacenters and Resilient Services
• Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Service
• Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale
• Scalable, Available Storage in the Cloud

Could this be the name or “codename” for the new Cloud OS that Steve Ballmer eluded to?  The name does have “Windows” in it, which makes us think it could be an Operating System.  And “Strata” could refer to the stratosphere which is associated with the sky and clouds.  Of course, the word Strata is really the plural form of stratum which is a geological formation, but that is just knit picking.

We might hear more before PDC, but we will know for sure at the end of the month!

There were a few other changes to the session tags too:

1. The tag “Dynamics CRM” has been renamed to just “Dynamics”.
2. The tag “Live Platform” has been renamed to “Live Services”.  New official name?
3. A new “Windows Embedded” tag was added.

Update 1:
I am not the only one who has noticed this: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081008/windows-strata-name-microsoft-cloud-os/ and http://geekswithblogs.net/kit/archive/2008/10/03/125633.aspx

Update 2:
[3:45pm EST 2008.10.08] The session list on the PDC site no longer lists “Windows Strata” as a tag.  Was this not suppose to go out yet?  Where they teasing or trying to trick us? There was a “test” tag out there for a little bit this afternoon.  It was probably a temporary tag while they got rid of the “Windows Strata” tag.