A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Ibiza


      
            Best guess on what it is: A metadata layer enabling data synchronization online and offline across multiple Microsoft and third-party products and devices
      
            Meaning/context of the code name: Ibiza, one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain, is yet another island code name. Definitely seems like there?s a tendency inside Microsoft to go with island names, as of late. (Think Greenland, Fiji, Tahiti.) I am not entirely clear whether ?Ibiza? is the new codename for ?Harmonica,? Microsoft?s P2P mesh service for synchronization, or whether it?s a complement to Harmonica. I tend to think this could be a case of Microsoft switching up codenames to throw off us codename watchers?.
      
            Back story: Ibiza supposedly is the core metadata layer that will be at the heart of Microsoft?s online/offline synchronization technologies and strategies. Online/offline sync is many software vendors? holy grail these days. For Microsoft, such a capability is an absolute requirement if Software + Services is to have any real meaning.Continue At Source


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