January 2009
Microsoft donates code to Apache Stonehenge project
by nhoizey
"The whole point of standards is to provide for interoperability, but so many are implemented in slightly different ways that the desired interoperability is not achieved," said [...] Jason Bloomberg.
March 2008
Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol as the future direction for Web APIs
by nhoizey & 2 others
Microsoft is making a large investment in unifying our developer platform protocols for services on the open, standards-based Atom format (RFC 4287) and the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023)
April 2007
Clemens Vasters and the WS Stars : So how much faster is it really and is it? WCF performance in comparison.
by nhoizey
To summarize the results, WCF is 25%—50% faster than ASP.NET Web Services, and approximately 25% faster than .NET Remoting. [...] in one case WCF is nearly 100% faster but in another scenario it is nearly 25% slower.
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