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- 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
- Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex
- I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Flex, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- 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
- Silverlight to run on Linux as early as this week
- According to a number of news sources, Novell is going to demonstrate Silverlight version 1.1 running on Linux this week at Microsoft's Mix07 event in Paris. The event takes place on the 21st and the technology will be demoed by Miguel de Icaza, the vice president of development for Novell...
- Tags: Silverlight, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Big Rich Media news for both Silverlight and Flash
- It's been a big week for news in the Rich Media space and both Flash and Silverlight have been able to make a splash. Rich Media is arguably one of the most important use cases for the major Rich Internet Application platforms. It drives penetration and the rise of YouTube...
- Tags: Brightcove, Flash, Rich Media, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- A YouTube Competitor in Silverlight and 1080p Flash Video
- Microsoft may be looking to create a competitor to YouTube that would support user uploaded content and 720p video. BigMouthMedia has some quotes from Tim Sneath, the group manager for WPF/Silverlight evangelism at Microsoft about their desire to deliver a new kind of experience for video-sharing.Rich media is getting a...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Demo of Silverlight on Linux and running outside the browser coming in June
- My parnter in crime here at ZDNet, Dana Gardner, has the scoop on news that the Mono Project will be releasing an alpha demonstration of Silverlight, Microsoft's browser Rich Internet Application technology, running on Linux. The demo, according to Miguel de Icaza, could actually have Silverlight running outside the browser...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- 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
- Shantanu Narayen, Chief Operating Officer at Adobe on Apollo, Silverlight, and CS3
- Knowledge@Wharton just published a great interview with Shantanu Narayen, the Chief Operating Officer at Adobe. In the interview he touches on almost all aspects of Adobe's product line including Creative Suite 3, Flash, Flex, and Apollo. He also talks about some of the corporate culture at Adobe and how it...
- Tags: Flex, Flash, Apollo, Adobe, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- 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
- Cynergy announces Silverlight application development
- Yesterday Cynergy, one of the top Flex development firms, announced that they will be jumping into Silverlight development. They are the first major RIA development firm I know of to publically put support behind Silverlight. A lot of the design agencies have been working with Silverlight for a...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Cynergy
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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