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Silverlight Release Candidate coming soon

On Friday Tim Sneath, an evangelist for Microsoft blogged about preparing for the release of Silverlight 1.0. It looks like we'll have a release candidate in the next couple of weeks and then probably final version a couple of weeks after that. It will be very interesting to see how...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-07-16

LiveStation: A Joost killer in Silverlight clothing

Microsoft is unveiling LiveStation which is an application that will enable live television on the desktop. The project uses Silverlight technology and has been touted as Microsoft's attempt at a "Joost killer". I think this is fairly old (the earliest reference I can find is 44 days ago on P2P...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Joost

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Why do tech journalists get Rich Internet Applications so wrong?

A lot of people are talking about Rich Internet Applications. At first people weren't really sold on creating really great experiences in the browser. Then Ajax came along and gave us a taste of how much better the web could actually be. Once people figured out that Ajax wasn't quite...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser

Production-ready it will not be, but Mono project busy beavers expect to provide a feasibility "alpha" demonstration in about two weeks of Microsoft's recently unveiled Silverlight on Linux, says  Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell and the leader of the Mono project.Silverlight is a proprietary runtime...

Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Adobe, .NET

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Microsoft Surface could be a great Rich Internet Application platform

I am very, very impressed with Microsoft Surface. I haven't touched it and I don't know all the specifics, but after watching the videos on the site and reading some other reports, I'm excited about what this means. Now, is it going to be affordable? Heck no. Is it going...

Tags: Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Sun enters the Rich Internet Application world with JavaFX

Infoworld is reporting that Sun will announce JavaFX on Tuesday which will be a response to the growing popularity of technologies like Ajax, Flash and Silverlight. The platform uses the Java runtime and a scripting language called JavaFX Script which is "focused on the content-authoring and content creation crowd....

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Flash, Ajax, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Mono founder says Silverlight will come to Linux

Martin LaMonica over at Cnet talked to Miguel de Icaza, a vice president at Novell and head of the Mono project about Silverlight on Linux. De Icazas response? Absolutely. I think it makes a lot of sense. As Martin noted, Mono developers could be big winners with the Dynamic...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-03

They saw the Silverlight, and saw that it was good

Robert Scoble is trying to build a reinvention myth around Microsofts introduction of Silverlight, its new smart client platform. Not so fast, Scoble! Its not the Web thats rebooting, its Microsoft. Silverlight is significant as the catalyst that finally allows Microsoft to recreate itself as a vendor for the Web...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Development

Blog posts 2007-05-02

My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie

Jeff Sandquist of Microsoft set up a lunch for a few of us with Scott Guthrie and Ray Ozzie here at Mix07. It was a great group of people including Richard MacManus his thoughts on the lunch are up here, Walt Ritscher, Lee Brimelow, Evan Williams, Linda Weinman, and...

Tags: Microsoft, Mix07, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-04-30

The scoop on Silverlight for developers

The speculation is over and today is the day Microsoft takes the developer covers off of Silverlight. There are a bunch of announcements today, so Ill break them down one by one, but for those in a hurry, heres the summary. First, Microsoft is announcing that the CLR will be...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Quick thoughts from the MIX keynote

Ive got the main post coming in a few minutes, but here are my "liveblogging thoughts from the keynote today at MIX. Ray Ozzie is hyping up Win32 applications. Hes describing it "as close to the metal" as you can get and praising the virtues of how rich...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Mix07, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-04-30

MIXing it up at the coming of age party for Rich Internet Applications

Im getting on a plane at 8:00 Pacific Time to head for Las Vegas and Microsofts MIX conference. With the rumors swirling around about what is going to be announced, this should make for a very news-heavy conference. And even though the most prominent RIA company Adobe isnt involved, I...

Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Mix07, Microsoft, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Is Silverlight a Flash competitor or an Ajax play?

Quick clarification. Flash and Silverlight are obviously competitors when it comes to videos and general features (vector graphics, animation, ect) but the point of the post is more to think about the next step in the value chain. For Flash, that seems to be building rich applications with Flex. For...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Mix07, Microsoft, Flash, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-04-24

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

Monday morning hangover: Adobe and Microsoft

Big announcements this morning that are prompting a lot of discussion on the web. One interesting thing is that the conversation about the Microsoft and Adobe announcement are all on the same Techmeme thread. Why? Because the announcements today are more signs that Microsoft and Adobe are on a collision...

Tags: WFP/E, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flash, Apollo, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-04-16

"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight, struts its video side

At the NAB conference this morning, Microsoft is giving us a first glimpse at Silverlight, the artist formerly known as "WPF/E". Because the announcement comes from the NAB conference, but also because its one of Silverlights major strong points, Microsoft is talking a lot about video. I was briefed about...

Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-04-15

Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications?

After reading Paul Grahams inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the "real meaning"...

Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-04-08

Ray Ozzie on Adobe and software as a service

Knowledge@Wharton just published an interview with Ray Ozzie in which he talks about Microsoft, software as a service, and a little bit on Adobe: In the docs and spreadsheets realm, I believe there are certain uses of spreadsheets in particular, where the sharing model [enabled by] using...

Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, WFP/E

Blog posts 2007-04-04

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