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- Microsoft
- (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. Founded in...
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- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google
- News items 2008-09-05
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....
- Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video
- News items 2008-08-25
- Olympic online gold
- Thanks to Microsoft's Silverlight streaming video software, more people than ever before are tuning in...err...logging on to watch the Olympics online. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on the popularity of the free service and the technology involved in transmitting that gold-medal relay race from Beijing to your home computer.
- Tags: Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Desktops, Productivity, Personal Technology, Hardware, News, kara tsuboi, ina fried, olympics, nbc, internet, microsoft, silverlight
- Videos 2008-08-15
- Silverlight release candidate now available
- Tim Sneath posted on his blog that the RC1 build for Silverlight 1.0 is available for download. Version 1.0 of Silverlight is targeted at web video and not as much at developers like the 1.1 release will be. Andy Plesser from Beet.TV has some more info and a chat with...
- Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- IronRuby pre-alpha release available
- John Lam and Scott Guthrie both have posts about the pre-alpha availability of IronRuby, a Ruby implementation for .NET. IronRuby is one of four languages that will be supported in .NET via the Dynamic Language Runtime DLR that Microsoft announced at MIX. The others are IronPython, JavaScript and Dynamic VB....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Microsoft, .NET 3.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- 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
- Does the Rich Internet Application "battle" hinge on rich media?
- Robert Scoble has his first article up for FastCompany and he talks about Rich Internet Applications. Specifically he talks about what Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun are doing to support these new kinds of applications. Robert comes at it from an interesting angle. He's a big video guy, so understandably he...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Microsoft, Flash, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Popfly - Mashup the web with Silverlight
- Disclosure: This morning I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn't...
- Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- 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
- MIX076: The remix from day one
- In the aftermath of MIX07 day one, with the announcements around Silverlight (see yesterdays ZDNet coverage from Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart and myself), the blogosphere is weighing in with more coverage and analysis. Steve Gillmor has emerged from his cave to comment on the calculus of Microsofts latest moves...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Dissecting Silverlight
- Two new technologies from Microsoft should be on the radar of every Rich Internet Application developer. The first is Silverlight 1.0, a canvas-like control which is programmed by browser JavaScript. Its fairly light weight (1.4M download), and works in all major browsers on Windows and MacOSX no Linux yet. It...
- Tags: AJAX, General, Java, Linux, Microsoft, Programming, Scripting, Sun
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- MIX07: Microsoft's expanding Web platform
- I met with Charles Fitzgerald this afternoon to talk about the MIX07 Silverlight and related announcements. He is general manger of platform strategy for Microsoft, which means he carries the evolving script for understanding how all the pieces at the company should fit together and cohere as an underlying, point...
- Tags: Broadband, General, Microsoft, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Storage, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- 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
- Ray Ozzie: Silverlight + .NET and 'experience first' software
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie opened the MIX 2007 conference announcing that .NET technology is being paired up with Silverlight, Microsofts cross-platform multi-browser plug-in for developing media rich interactive Web applications and a competitor to Adobes Apollo. "AJAX development has limitations and there is a better language than Javascript...
- Tags: Microsoft, General
- 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
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