On se demande ou ils vont chercher toutes ces idées chez microsoft :

vedea : « Vedea is a prototype of a new experimental language for creating interactive infographics, data visualizations and computational art.  It is designed to be accessible to people who are either new to programming or whose primary domain of expertise is something other than programming.  We wanted to give those users a tool that they can use to realize their own vision and visualizations without having to engage skilled programmers, but have it be an environment that skilled programmers would not find limiting. »

processing : « Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. »

En fait ils l'annoncent clairement « The inspiration for Vedea is the same set of goals underlying the language “Processing” (http://processing.org/).  Both Processing and Vedea have similar goals and similar audiences.  We’re all [...] frequent users and admirers of Processing, but we felt there was an opportunity here for us to take those concepts further by capitalizing on some new Microsoft technologies. »

En somme, c'est comme processing, mais sans être multiplateforme : « One of the key areas we are concerned with in the runtime is to increase the performance and cross-platform compatibility of the web-based runtime, though Vedea is dependent on .net 4.0 and the DLR so even with OpenGL compatibility, we may have to wait for ongoing Mono development before we can reach beyond the Windows family. »

Et pour l'instant ce n'est qu'en projet « The Microsoft Visualization Language and its runtime will first be available on via http://research.microsoft.com/Vedea .  You won’t find it there now [...] but we will be posting it very early in the coming year »