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Silverlight Release Candidate due before end of July: Microsoft expects to deliver the near-final test release of its Silverlight alternative to Flash before July is over, according to a blog posting from a Microsoft technical evangelist.Microsoft officially unveiled the beta of Silverlight 1.0 at its Mix '07 conference in April. The company also announced at that time the...; Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Development tools, .Net Framework; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Project Indiana: Could Sun outshine Microsoft's Silverlight?: At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun might unveil a head-to-head competitor to Microsofts Silverlight, a k a "Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere." ...; Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Expression Studio, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, .Net Framework; Blog posts 2007-05-07
Yahoo's Semel to keynote Microsoft advertising powwow: Speaking of Microsofts advertising ambitions, next week is Microsofts eighth annual Strategic Account Summit SAS. SAS is the MSN online-advertising conference. Like Mix 07, SAS doesnt feature Microsoft speakers only. In fact, on Tuesday, Yahoo Chairman and CEO Terry Semel will address the invitees on the state of the...; Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Research, MIX07, Google, Corporate strategy, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-05-03
Meet Microsoft, the advertising company: Microsoft, first and foremost, is a software company. Or is it? Consider these recent developments: * On May 3, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire European-based mobile-phone advertising company ScreenTonic. * Microsoft is promoting its Personal Expressions for Windows Live Messenger theme packs, which incorporate an expanded...; Tags: Zune, Xbox Live, Xbox, Windows Mobile, Windows Live, Web video, Web 2.0, Vista, MSN, MIX07, Google, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-05-03
Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you: With its official announcement of the "Windows Live platform beta" at Mix 07 this week, Microsoft made available to developers a number of application programming interfaces APIs and controls upon which they can build their own applications and mashups. Missing from the list were a couple of key building...; Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, MIX07, Google, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-05-02

Jasper: Dynamic languages meet dynamic database development: Its code name central at Mix 07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsofts Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces. In a session entitled "Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.Net," Microsoft officials...; Tags: Visual Studio Orcas, SQL Server, MIX07, Development tools, Database, Code names; Blog posts 2007-05-01
What's next for Internet Explorer? Microsoft opens up (a little): Microsoft still isnt talking specifics in terms of what it plans to deliver as part of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE 8.0. But at the Mix 07 conference in Las Vegas, Chris Wilson, platform architect of Internet Explorer, did share some general directions the team is taking with...; Tags: MIX07, Internet Explorer, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-05-01
News to know: mix07; Google responds to Viacom; Credit card passwords: News to know: Mix07; Google responds to Viacom; Credit card passwordsFIOS link NGAs a FIOS subscriber I was eager to read - Verizon's FiOS network: Payback time? - unfortunately the link takes me to the Yahoo Right Media Purchse page.; Tags: Sales channel, Credit card password, Google Responds, Mix07, Fios, Viacom Inc., credit card, password, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-05-01
News to know: mix07; Google responds to Viacom; Credit card passwords: Notable headlines: Google denies Viacom copyright charges. Full response PDF. Donna Bogatin: Google accuses Viacom of Unclean Hands: Demands day in court.Ryan Naraine: Verisign putting disposable passwords on credit cards.Supreme Court sides with Microsoft in patent spat.Ed Bott: How to get sued by Microsoft.George Ou: 2.5 *terabyte* hot-swap storage...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-05-01
Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealed: On Monday at Mix 07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: "Astoria." Astoria is a set of patterns and infrastructure for Web data services, explained Pablo Castro, technical lead with Microsofts database group. Castro showed off Microsofts Astoria work during his session on "Accessing...; Tags: Code names, Database, Development tools, Housekeeping, MIX07, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Web 2.0, Windows Live; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLR: I agree with my ZDNet blogging colleague Ryan Stewart. The biggest Mix 07 announcement made on opening day of this weeks show was one that Microsoft didnt call out in any of its own press releases: Microsoft is making a version of its Common Language Runtime CLR available cross-platform. ...; Tags: .Net Framework, Code names, Corporate strategy, Development tools, MIX07, Silverlight (wpf/e); 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
Microsoft expands its set of Live programming interfaces: Microsoft is adding to the set of application programming interfaces APIs underlying its evolving Live developer platform, company officials said at Microsofts Mix 07 conference in Las Vegas. Microsoft released to testers "a bevy of new APIs, controls, etc.," according to a blog posting on the Windows Dev blog....; Tags: Development tools, MIX07, Windows Live; Blog posts 2007-04-30
A new Microsoft software plus service: Silverlight Streaming: Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsofts latest example of software plus service (S+S) -- a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming -- during his opening keynote at Microsofts Mix 07 conference on April 30. Silverlight Streaming is in alpha. It is a free...; Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Expression Studio, Development tools; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Quick thoughts from the MIX keynote: Ive got the main post coming in a few minutes, but here are my "liveblogging thoughts from the keynote today at MIX. Ray Ozzie is hyping up Win32 applications. Hes describing it "as close to the metal" as you can get and praising the virtues of how rich...; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Mix07, Microsoft; Blog posts 2007-04-30
News to know: Yahoo buys Right Media; mix07; S60 Summit; .ANI flaws: Notable headlines:Yahoo buys Right Media. Larry Dignan on the deal. Techmeme.Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix07. Ryan Stewart: MIXing it up at the coming of age party for Rich Internet Applications.Dan Farber: FASTMedia Network takes on Google, Yahoo.Tom Foremski: FAST battles GOOG and YHOO for media markets, says...; Tags: General; 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
Is Silverlight a Flash competitor or an Ajax play?: Quick clarification. Flash and Silverlight are obviously competitors when it comes to videos and general features (vector graphics, animation, ect) but the point of the post is more to think about the next step in the value chain. For Flash, that seems to be building rich applications with Flex. For...; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Mix07, Microsoft, Flash, Ajax; Blog posts 2007-04-24
In Focus: mix07: See ZDNet's focus on Mix07 for the latest news and perspectives from around the blogosphere.; Tags: Mix07; Blog posts 2007-04-23
5 Rich Internet Application conferences you should attend this year: This post is long overdue, and I apologize because I think a lot of people may have spent their conference budgets or already made plans. In fact some conferences, like 360 Flex, are already sold out. We have a rich slate of conferences to choose from this year, which...; Tags: Adobe, Ajax, Apollo, Cynergy, Design, Flash, Flex, Microsoft, Mix07, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E, WPF; Blog posts 2007-02-22