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Episode 30 - Year-end wrapup

K Scott leads the discussion as we look back at 2008, and speculate wildly on what 2009 has to offer. Looking back at 2008: Google Chrome, Kevin’s new iPhone, Kevin’s Firefox extension addiction, Hulu, IE8 - better than expected, but still a ways to go, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2, Oslo, Azure, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, ADO.NET Data Services, REST is finally accepted in the .NET world, The Seinfeld / Gates ads, OpenID, Netbooks (Oragami at last?), Twitter’s recovery, Overhyped stuff (Surface, cloud computing, multi-core madness), Functional programming, DI/IOC hitting the Microsoft mainstream, [sidebar - the tradeoff between DI benefits vs. Silverlight XAP size], StackOverflow, [sidebar - frustration with Microsoft forums]. Looking forward at 2009: Windows 7, Office 14, Project Pink? (Zune on Windows Mobile), [sidebar - frustrations Zune], WPF in Visual Studio, [sidebar - is there a correlation between unmanaged code and lame Microsoft products?]