What Microsoft is learning from building Live.com

26 Apr 2006

Most anyone who has tried Microsoft's Live.com has seen that performance is a problem. Here's what Microsoft is learning about performance from building Live.com. Scott Isaacs talks about some of the challenges inherent in building client-centric interactive applications that run in a browser. Some of the issues are reducing the number of connections to the server, XML parsing time, and server vs. client rendering. Some good insight into Microsoft's process.

Posted by John on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 11:33 AM

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