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- Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week
- It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Apple Mac OS X, Application Servers, Apple Mac OS, RSS, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Enterprise Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Final Silverlight 2.0 for Windows and Mac now looking like October
- Final Silverlight 2.0 for Windows and Mac now looking like OctoberSilverlight quite easy to use...I have tried out and bought the Expression Suite to try out Silverlight for Vista desktop and web applications. I will probably buy the 2.0 version of Expression suite to use the Silverlight 2.0 stuff.Adobe...
- Tags: Vector Graphic, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, graphics, Microsoft Silverlight, Web, Silverlight 2.0, pixel
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Busy week for Microsoft: Silverlight and jQuery
- Busy week for Microsoft: Silverlight and jQueryDivergent?Interested to hear how you think they will diverge. Do you mean Adobe more with Air and thin client apps. MS more as full OS stack?
- Tags: Thin clients, jQuery, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Final Silverlight 2.0 for Windows and Mac now looking like October
- Microsoft is nearing the finish line with the 2.0 releases of both the Windows and Mac OS X versions of its Silverlight competitor to Adobe Flash. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Busy week for Microsoft: Silverlight and jQuery
- I'm traveling so I wasn't able to chime in on the availability of a Silverlight release candidate. One of the most important thing for developers is that it sounds like this will be the last round of API tweaks so there will be no more updating your applications. Silverlight.net has...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight.net, Silverlight 2 RC, AJAX, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UKAnother stupid cash cow?Well I hope it's not another milking of the MS cash cow i.e. delaying the release of SL2 until the PDC sells up because seriously .NET devs have been losing out to Flash over the last two years (good news for you, Ryan,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, PDC, reMIX UK, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
- Microsoft held reMIX UK last week in Brighton which as others have noted was an addendum to the MIX conference in Las Vegas which unfortunately came in the shadow of PDC where we should probably see a Silverlight 2 release as well as a bunch of other goodies from Microsoft....
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, PDC, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- H.264 support coming for Silverlight
- H.264 support coming for Silverlightthat's just an also ranM$ is desperately trying to immitate flex, Linux and Java with this addition.Microsoftis giving its customers what they asked for with this addition.The $ in your posts explains why you willfully miss this every time.except that ...Linux offers nothing worth imitating in...
- Tags: Linux, H.264, Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- H.264 support coming for Silverlight
- At the IAB conference in Europe, Microsoft announced that they would be supporting both the H.264 video codec and the AAC audio codec in a future version of Silverlight. Up until now, Microsoft has focused on VC-1 which powers all of Windows media. One of the differentiators of Flash was...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- WebUI Studio.NET for Silverlight (exe)
- WebUI Studio.NET includes 23 highly advanced user interface components for developing rich Internet application by using Unified Component System methodology. This results in significant developer's productivity improvement by reducing the time required to learn the products, while at the same time increases the value of your Web application by incorporating...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Intersoft Solutions, WebUI Studio.NET, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management
- Software downloads 2008-09-09
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and MoveWow, just wowSo, a party supposed to govern USA can be bought out by Microsoft to support a flash wannabe plugin.I am speechless. Will they make Windows only policy in Govt. agencies too? Perhaps they should use "OOXML" instead of PDF too?What???The liberals...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Office Open XML, Active-X, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Updated: Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move
- There was a lot of buzz around the fact that Silverlight was going to be use at the Democratic national convention for video my post here and off the heels of the Olympics, it seemed like a good thing for Microsoft to get into and I was really looking forward...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Plug-in, Move, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fightIt's going to be a short fightFlash is so technically inferior to Silverlight in virtually every capacity that it is already dead. Real developers have avoided web development effectively ceding it to the html weenies as the web has always been a truly...
- Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, Microsoft Silverlight, developer, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate itRE: really bad storyIt is a slow news day for me. But I thought it was one of the better breakdowns I'd seen and I'm also fishing for .NET/Mac hints.=Ryanreally bad storymust be a slow news day... they blog about...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Blogging, Microsoft Silverlight, Expression Blend
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
- Update: I found out that this is the second most hated post on ZDNet in the past 90 days. That's an impressive and dubious honor and it was a wakeup call not to do posts like this. I think Tim's post is awesome, but next time I won't link without...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, C#, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Programming Languages, Desktops, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic CoverageWould have loved to watchbut the GARBAGE known as Silverlight won't run on my PowerPC Mac the last PPC Powerbook.I sent them an e-mail about this and that they should have picked Flash or generic MPRG4 for the transport so ALL could see the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Live 8, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight Olympic, Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has a great rundown of the numbers behind this weekend's Olympic coverage. The highest day of coverage was on August 10th and it saw about 3.42 million video streams with 66.7 million page views and an average time spent on the site of 15 minutes. Pretty good numbers...
- Tags: NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, Coverage, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
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