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Microsoft Introduces 'Napa' Toolset For Cloud App Model

Posted by Soulskill on from the makes-decent-wine dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "In keeping with Microsoft's 'all-in' strategy with regard to the cloud, Office 2013 incorporates a good deal of cloud functionality: SkyDrive is now the default storage selection for documents, for example, and users' work is synced between devices connected to the Web. In conjunction with that, Microsoft is now offering a 'Cloud App Model' that incorporates Web standards, meant for developers interested in building apps that bring functionality into Office and SharePoint. The toolset for building within this 'Cloud App Model' is codenamed 'Napa.' Among the potential uses: developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules, content apps for Excel, which add content and functionality to Excel documents, and task pane apps for Office, which add functionality to Excel and Word documents in a task pane adjacent to the document."

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  1. All that needs to be said by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Write speed of an average HDD: ~50MBPS
    Upload speed of an average Internet connection: ~0.1MBPS

    I'll pass.

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  2. ASPX is a web standard now? by DragonWriter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like how "client side ASPX" is one of the "web standards" that 'Napa' incorporates. Since when is this proprietary Microsoft technology a "web standard"?

    1. Re:ASPX is a web standard now? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2

      If the wheel of karmic retribution has placed you upon this vale of tears as a Sharepoint developer, you probably won't know the difference...

    2. Re:ASPX is a web standard now? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 2

      What is client side ASPX? How could it be anything but html, css and javascript?

      well, it could be html, that renders correctly on IE, with css and javascript that contain only 1 or 2 additional features that MS deemed essential enough to put into their browser, plus a heap of microsoft-only javascript modules that, for efficiency reasons, are binary encoded into the IE js engine. And a C# based scripting engine as well, just for that 'developer friendly' productivity boost, if you want to use it, completely optionally.

      All completely standards "based" of course.

  3. You must admit it's aptly named. by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 2

    Write speed of an average HDD: ~50MBPS
    Upload speed of an average Internet connection: ~0.1MBPS

    You must admit it's aptly named.

    Every time you open or operate on a file you get to take a little Nappa.

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