How do we keep business managers reigned in to keep their requirement specifications under control?
Carter: It’s all about transparency. Through VSTS we will aim to try and make available all the reporting and business intelligence necessary for business users to be able to view the status of a project. So if that reporting exists and is delivered to business users via tools they’re used to, such as Excel and Outlook, it must represent a positive addition to the project at hand. Your next Windows Azure tools are aligned to development for the cloud. How will they look and feel in practice? Zander: We want to make it possible for developers to use all their .Net programming skills for the cloud. There will be a sandbox security model similar to that which we have provided with the ASP.Net web application framework. The best practices you can find with that technology will also extend to Azure on the cloud. Carter: With Azure, the key thing is everything will look very familiar to you as a Visual Studio developer, because the programming model is the same. With the same components at h
