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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- 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...
- Tags: Broadband, General, Microsoft, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Storage, Web Technology
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Tags: Web technology, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, General
- 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...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Entertainment
- 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...
- Tags: WFP/E, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flash, Apollo, Adobe
- 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...
- Tags: Zune, WPF/e, Expression Studio, Development tools, Code names
- 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...
- Tags: Microsoft, General, 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
Additional Resources
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...
- Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's commercials critic, Barbara Lippert: The Future. Delicious" is the sign-off, but I am...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Ass, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Web Browsers, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab
- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft labLabs are a great concept but hard to move into the business...Innovation is important for long term competitiveness and the "labs" concept is a good one for providing a dedicated R&D capability. However, I've seen far too many companies including Microsoft have...
- Tags: Microsoft Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
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