Jon Udell: “Microsoft platforms have not historically encompassed the continuum of access styles. Happily, the emerging cloud does. And while the novelty of “just coding to a URL” on a Microsoft platform will undoubtedly attract some tirekickers who otherwise wouldn’t show up, the real draw will be the ability to exercise choice along the whole continuum.”

Good commentary from Jon about the nature of cloud services and how Microsoft’s services platform will open up access to a host of new developers.