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- Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more
- The biggest news here is that MS is losing its grip on developers as they are switching to programming for the web and cross platform tools.Microsoft and its future.The chief software architect not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft's Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...
- Videos 2008-11-21
- 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....
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Microsoft's Silverlight in action
- Company hopes to trump Adobe with new softwareFrom Mix '07: Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie, general manager of developer platforms, discuss important features of the new Silverlight application for Web developers, including Silverlight Streaming.
- Videos 2007-04-30
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Debate over Microsoft break-up idea devolves
- Oy vey. In the event that you missed my post yesterday (see Penfield-Jacksons Revenge? For Silverlight to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up), I contemplated the idea that, in its own best interests, it might be better for Microsoft to consider breaking itself up (perhaps into an online company and...
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Penfield-Jackson's revenge? For Silverlight (and Microsoft) to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up?
- By now, you cant have missed the news about how Microsoft has officially given the name "Silverlight" to its Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) platform. If the coverage you read didnt just report the news, it probably drew attention to the theoretical battle that looms between Microsoft and the incumbent Adobe...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Microsoft seeks to redefine RIA with Silverlight
- Nearly everyone in the tech industry uses RIA as an acronym for "Rich Internet Applications." But not Microsoft. In Redmonds case, RIA stands for Rich Interactive Applications -- a term and topic the Softies are planning to make a focus during Microsofts appearance at the National Association of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Web video battle royale: Adobe vs. Microsoft
- Adobe and Microsoft have soft-pedaled their rivalry on the Web, but a series of announcements from the two companies shows where this competition is really going. Destination: Web video. And if you believe that video is going to be the most important cog of...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
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- Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service
- Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009
- Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009Oh pleaseApple buy Adobe? They would never deplete their cash that much. Adobe would be very expensive. And as for the comment about Adobe certainly selling more than half to Windows users, that's barely true, but not nearly as much as people...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- Microsoft releases source code under an Apache license
- Microsoft releases source code under an Apache licenseAnti MS zealots bashing this in 3... 2... 1...I win $20 if anyone mentions embrace, extend, extinguish. :)Pay us to use technology, we need to feed the greedy.Anyone who buys a single word of anything from Microsoft is ultimately just a dumb consumer.Anyone...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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