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The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies

Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...

Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Expression Blend and Expression Web will be available to MSDN premium subscribers

Microsoft announced today that two programs from Expression Studio, Web and Blend, will be available to MSDN premium subscribers. Originally, Microsoft had decided not to include any Expression products with MSDN because they felt that the design-focused Expression tools didnt belong in the developer program. Luckily, Microsoft listened to...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Expression Studio

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Microsoft Expression Blend release candidate now available

This almost slipped off of my radar as I was checking feeds today, but according to the Expression Blog, Microsoft rolled out the release candidate version of Blend tonight. Blend is an interactive designer for creating XAML-based applications and is part of Microsofts Expression Studio. I havent heard...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., release-candidate, Microsoft Expression, WPF/E

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Tool for creating "WPF/E" apps on the horizon?

I always feel a odd bringing up shortcomings for products that are still very much in development like Apollo or "WPF/E", but one of the complaints Ive heard about WPF/E is the lack of a specific tool targeted at the XAML that WPF/E uses. Blend is a great tool for...

Tags: WFP/E, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Expression Studio, Devigner Workflow, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-03-05

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

"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

Dx3 - A rock star Rich Internet Application conference

I just got an email about the Dx3 conference, something Ive been following for a while. It now looks like its starting to take shape, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows about it. Dx3 stands for Design, Develop, and Deploy and it looks like its going to be...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Experience, Flash, Apollo, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Design, Expression Studio, DX3

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Apollo and Flex at DEMO and Expression Studio Betas

Its been a busy day but there was a lot of interesting stuff. Brandon was the first to point out that Apollo was presented at DEMO you can bid on the shirt they used to demo the application. GigaOm did the live blogging and had this to say:...

Tags: Adobe, Apollo, Expression Studio, Flash, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WPF/E

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Microsoft Expression Blend Beta 2 available for download

On a last quick run-through of the feeds before I head to bed I noticed that Eric Lam has posted that Beta 2 of Expression Blend is now available. According to Eric there are a few changes in this version: You can now instantiate resources from the Resources...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Expression Blend

Blog posts 2007-01-30

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

Interaction Design - the next step in RIA development

Since the Expression event last week Ive been having a lot of conversations with people about Blend and what it means. Mostly they want to know how it compares to Adobes stuff and whether its worth checking out. I had sort of been wishy-washy on explaining it until I had...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Expression Studio

Blog posts 2007-01-22

My thoughts on Expression Session 07

I had a very, very long day yesterday that revolved around what I thought was an extremely good Expression Session by Microsoft. This was the first run of the event there are two more in Chicago and New York and while there were a couple of rough spots, for the...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Burton, GPS

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Some clarifications on WPF/E from Scott Guthrie

On Thursday Channel 9 posted a video with Scott Guthrie and Scott covered a wide array of topics including a bit about Expression and WPF/E. There was also some information that I hadnt ever heard before. Scott said that "2007 is going to be a pretty fun year from a...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Expression Studio, Mix07, WPF/E

Blog posts 2007-01-14

Microsoft's Mix 07 registration opens

I saw over on Cnet that Microsoft has opened registration for Mix 07. I think Mix is going to be a very, very solid conference. As the CNet article notes, this is Microsoft branching out and having a conversation with developers about their web technologies. The fact that Ray Ozzie...

Tags: WPF/E, Mix07, Devigner Workflow, Expression Studio, Design, Ajax, Atlas, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-01-03

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

What Microsoft is up against in the designer market

According to BusinessWeek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. raised Adobe from a "Hold" rating to a "Buy" rating based on a survey they did amongst potential buyers of Creative Suite 3 (CS3), the next version of Adobes big designer suite. The survey found that 80% of the...

Tags: Devigner Workflow, Creative Suite, Expression Studio, Design, Adobe, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Additional Resources

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...

Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year

Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer IE 8 to the Web "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics

In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-24