Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web

The "data programmability" team at Microsoft is responsible for the various technologies developers use in applications to access and manipulate data. One of the topics we have been looking at lately is how "new" internet applications use data in the web environment. Project codename "Astoria" reflects our current thinking on the topic. Instead of telling "what we are going to build", we decided to make the bits and infrastructure public for the development community to look at and give us feedback.