ASTORIA ? What is that?

Microsoft Codename "Astoria"

On Monday at Mix '07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: "Astoria."

Astoria as one of a number Microsoft technologies that are designed to allow users to make their data available over the Web via a REST interface and using open formats such as XML, JSON or RDF.

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