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- 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
- Where Microsoft benefits from the Rich Internet Application developer problem
- Rich Internet Application developer is kind of a loaded term. Youre not just writing code, you have to know how the interactions all fit together, and even if youre not creating design-side of the user interface, you often wear many hats as you build out the UI, wire the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft: Bring me more developers
- As Mary Jo reported today, Microsoft is unveiling an initiative aimed at making their products accessible to new developers. The site, The Beginner Developer Learning Center, is targeted at hobbyists, young developers, and anyone else who has an interest in development but hasnt got a lot of experience. As part...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- 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
- How Adobe started winning developers
- Theres a post over on Scobles blog that takes on the topic of developers and how Microsoft is hemmoraging them while Adobe seems to be gaining them. It really has been astounding to watch this company known for its "uppity designers" (kidding!) take the developer world by almost total surprise....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Flash, WFP/E, 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
- 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
- Microsoft releases ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
- Today Microsoft released "Atlas" or what has become ASP.NET Ajax 1.0. Scott Guthrie has the big news and Mary Jo Foley here on ZDNet has some good information as always. You can go grab the framework on the ASP.NET AJAS website. So were finally seeing a release version of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Ajax, ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft ASP.NET
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Microsoft's A.U.R.A. project - information at your fingertips
- Normally a device running on a mobile phone that uses a mobile web browser as its primary delivery method wouldnt fall into the realm of things I cover. But Microsoft sent me a Smartphone to play with (I didnt keep it, it was just a review phone) and so that...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Mobile-Web, Aura, A.U.R.A.
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Rich Internet Applications at CES
- Im not at CES and I wasnt anticipating much in the way of Rich Internet Application news to come out of it so I havent been rabidly following it today but a couple of things caught my eye that I thought you might be interested in. The first is...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., mobile marketing, server, Windows Home Server, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- 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
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