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A list of Rich Internet Application Technologies for the Digg crowd

This comment thread made me realize that there is still a lot of confusion about what the different RIA technologies do. Statements like "Flex is Adobes AJAX offering." or "Flex is like a weak version of WPF/E when it comes down to it." just show people havent quite grasped where...

Tags: WFP/E, WPF, Expression Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation, OpenLaszlo, Apollo, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-02-26

With their RIA tech, Microsoft could toast Google in the SaaS world

I have to hand it to Phil, he called me out and pwned me. He gave perfect examples of why data is not necessarily safer in the users hands than it would be with Google. I still think theres something to be said for knowing that Im responsible for my...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Google, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Ajax, WFP/E, WPF

Blog posts 2007-02-23

A new WPF reader application by Identity Mine

Weve heard a lot of good things so far about the New York Times reader that Microsoft and the NYT Co. worked to put together to showcase WPF technologies. Now an independent firm, Identity Mine has taken the idea and run with it creating branded reading experiences built on Windows...

Tags: .NET 3.0, Identity Mine, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF

Blog posts 2007-02-22

"WPF/E" not shipping first release with C# and CLR support

Microsoft is talking about its Expression Studio product at the Future of Web Apps event in London and Tim Anderson had some interesting information from some of the folks working the Microsoft booth: A couple of notes on Microsoft, a newcomer to this conference and showing off...

Tags: .NET 3.0, Expression Studio, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere

Blog posts 2007-02-21

WPF and proving the importance of experience

Anyone who has read my blog knows I have a pretty negative attitude towards browser based applications. With technologies like Flash and "WPF/E" were able to create some great in-browser experiences, but there is still something lacking. But its often difficult to get people to buy into the need for...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Experience, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0, WPF

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Is the New York Times going to charge for their WPF reader?

Very interesting post by Staci Kramer over at paidContent. She quotes a spokeswoman at the New York Times as having this to say about the possibility of charging for the NYT reader that was built with Microsoft using Windows Presentation Foundation: Were still working on this and...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0, New York Times Reader, New York Times Co., NYT Reader

Blog posts 2007-02-09

I'm excited about Windows Vista

So after a long haul, Vista is finally hitting store shelves. Ive been using it for a couple of months now and for the most part, I like it. I absolutely HATE User Account Control and its caused me some headaches I cant elaborate on for NDA reasons and every...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Ive, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Is "Technology X" a desktop version of the .NET Framework for Mac?

This "Technology X" thing on the About page of Mix 07 is killing me. I cant tell if its something big or something small that Ive already heard of. Mary Jo Foley solicited ideas for it and garnered a bunch of responses. WPF/E and WPF are already mentioned on that...

Tags: .NET, Desktops, desktop, WPF/E, Microsoft .NET Framework, Apple Macintosh

Blog posts 2007-01-14

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 22, 2006

Richard Leggett has an excellent breakdown of Flash and WPF/E. Well worth checking out Tony MacDonell adds two more good predictions to my earlier post about 10 predictions for RIAs in 2007. Marco asks whether Microsoft is betting on .NET or JavaScript and brings up the Sidebar and WPF/E....

Tags: .NET, Scripting languages, Application servers, WPF/E

Blog posts 2006-12-22

Microsoft, Developers, Designers and Bill Gates

I was lucky enough to be a part of the group that went to Microsoft yesterday to talk about everything from the Designer/Developer workflow to their new XNA initiative and it capped off with a Q&A session with Bill Gates himself. From Back Left: Mike Arrington, Evan Williams, Tim Harris,...

Tags: WPF/E, Expression Studio, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Devigner Workflow, Design, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-14

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Steve Borsch has an interesting post about Assembling a Rich Internet Application. Steves got an excellent blog and I always enjoy it when he talks about RIAs. Thanks to John Dowdell for the link. TechCrunch has some info on Gotuits new service which allows users to "cut and tag...

Tags: RIA, Microsoft .NET, WebORB Blog, Gotuit, Rich Media, Universal Desktop Daily, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-12

First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere

Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world of RIAs you come up with traits like cross-platform, designer/developer workflow, rich media and a...

Tags: WPF/E, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere info starting to trickle out

Ill have a lot more information on Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) coming up on Monday, but it looks like David Boschman has some links on his blog. Including a link to the new WPF/E page on MSDN. via John Dowdell. It looks like the download is unavailable, but...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, WPF/E

Blog posts 2006-12-02

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006

I saw that we have a new Microsoft blog, Web.Next which will cover the next generation of Microsoft technologies starting with WPF/E. From the post: "I know that there are a lot of questions on this technology, and there isnt a lot that I can talk about right now...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Universal Desktop Daily, Microsoft Corp., Mono

Blog posts 2006-11-16

The beginning of an era - Windows Presentation Foundation ships

The .NET Framework 3.0 has been released which means that Windows Presentation Foundation is now fully available as a development platform for Rich Internet Applications. The .NET Framework blog has a list of the various downloads. If you use Vista when it comes out, the .NET Framework 3...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Additional Resources

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...

Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-10

The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-10

ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market

The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...

Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Will you forget about Android?

Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...

Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-10