Microsoft is indirectly confirming the name on its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Web site, where all of its cloud-related sessions are now lumped under the “Windows Strata” heading.

Another naming tweak that the company has made on the PDC site: The Live Mesh Platform is now called the “Live Framework.” One session, entitled “Live Services: Building Mesh Applications Using the New Live Framework” is described as follows:

“Come learn how to build a new type of application designed from the get-go to live and breathe within Live Mesh. ‘Mesh Applications’ can be accessed from anywhere through a web browser as well as run locally (and offline) on user’s desktop and can take full advantage of many Mesh value-add services such as a dedicated sandbox, online and offline synchronized storage, auto deployment and update, identity, application catalogue, social computing and more. Learn about the Mesh Application architecture and lifecycle as well as how to build Silverlight 2 and JavaScript Mesh Applications from ground up.”