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- Moonlight
- An open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight from the Mono project. Moonlight provides a runtime engine that allows Silverlight applications to run on Linux and also provides a Linux...
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- Microsoft officially 'extends support' for Novell's Silverlight Linux port
- On September 5, Microsoft announced that the 1.0 version of its Silverlight competitor to Flash is now done and the final bits are available via the Web to any and all users. Microsoft also announced it is officially has "extended support" for Novell's port of Silverlight to...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Moonlight, Ramji, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Moonlight to pump up Linux desktop, Microsoft's OpenXML standards effort?
- Microsoft is cooperating with Novell on a project code-named "Moonlight" to port its Silverlight web development tool to Linux. On its face, this is big news because it is Microsoft's first real contribution to the open source desktop, reports Miguel de Icaza, of GNOME fame, and...
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Linux Desktop, Microsoft Silverlight, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Moonlight, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
Additional Resources
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It's a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft's longtime leader won't usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3
- Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- News to know: Microsoft-Yahoo talks (again); OLPC; Gmail themes; Firefox 3.0
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and Yahoo: A new deal in the works? BoomTown: Microsoft to Buy Just Yahoo's Search Business? NYT: In Reversal, Microsoft Proposes...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight
- Novell produces lead pony for SilverlightGood Job MiguelWhen push comes to shove Microsoft WILL unleash the lawyers.Miguel and his friends at Novell have already taken hold of the ropes and pulled the Trojan horse inside the gates. However unlike Troy, the majority of the Trojans in this case are on...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Silverlight, Novell Inc., Mono, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-17
- Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight
- Something has always bothered me about Novell's Mono project. Those feelings came together this week with the release of Moonlight, Novell's implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux. It wasn't Miguel deIcaza's blog post on the software. This is not beta ware, he wrote. It's...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Pony, Linux, Open Source, .Net, Development Tools, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public versionCorrections/Silverlight for Linux/Silverlight for Novell Linux/that's so irrelevantWhy zdnnet is still writting about Novell & Moonlight? They are both fading into oblivion because their M$ pact and nobody cares about them anymore.RIA = irritating advertisingNobody wants intrusive RIAs to pop up...
- Tags: rich Internet application, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
- The first public release of Moonlight -- the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders -- is out. De Icaza, Novell Vice President for Developer Technologies, noted the release in a blog post dated May 13. De Icaza noted...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0My Wish List.Only one thing: I would like Microsoft to get solidly behind Mono to get a complete and up-to-date .Net implementation for Linux.Very interesting. Not sure what they hope to gain here or how the willmaintain the block-in. Probably the best answer, is that...
- Tags: Linux, .NET, Development tools, Golden Age, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost 2.0, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocialNice to see all of the open moves by Yahoo. They seem to have decided thatbeing more open is the only thing that can save them from Microsoft. Time will tell if it works or not . . . .Are you kidding?Microsoft...
- Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Mono project releases first IDE, Mono 2.0 into beta
- Novell's Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment IDE for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications....
- Tags: Mono, IDE, Novell Inc., Beta, Development Environment, MonoDevelop 1.0, Mono Project, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- New Silverlight 2 extension adds support for dynamic languages
- New Silverlight 2 extension adds support for dynamic languagesRE: New Silverlight 2 extension adds support for dynamic languagesDynamic Languages, not so much. Silverlight 2.0 in general, yes.I'm a huge WPF fan and with the growing maturity of the Silverlight control base and the addition the DLR, Silverlight is delivering...
- Tags: Linux, .NET, OPEN SOURCE, Development tools, Operating systems, Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2 extension, Silverlight 2, dynamic language
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?
- Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?RE: Some comments.Yup, that sums it up pretty well. In fact, I think a closer link with WPF was something they were waiting for before rolling out a lot of web apps. Microsoft has something very cool in WPF and...
- Tags: Web browsers, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, offline version, Microsoft .NET, Web browser, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, services
- Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, servicesInterestingThis sounds really interesting. Looking forward for the public API's.If I want......rich client on the web, I'll go Flex/Flash. If it'san HTML-based web app, I'll go Java/JSP. Thanks, but no thanks, to your non-standard, M$-locked-in "Live" crapware!non-standard?@techboy_z -...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Flex/Flash, Microsoft Windows Live, tool, new Windows Live platform, JSP, Windows Live Platform, Java, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- How+big+a+threat+is+good+Microsoft%3F
- How+big+a+threat+is+good+Microsoft%3FBusiness fundamentalsThe whole concept is predicated on the idea that the only reason for [i]software libre[/i] is reaction to the Transcendent Evil Of Redmond. Which is as silly as saying that open and collaborative science only exists as a reaction to guild secrecy.The guilds went away. Did science?I...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?Fine is for the pastThis fine is for the past and has nothing to do with their current 'openness'!I'm gladI'm so glad Microsoft have suddenly changed and decided to makes these moves purely out the goodness of their own hearts.Who knows if the...
- Tags: Servers, European Commission, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest
- Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contestCompetitionThe competition is among the attendees, not the operating systems. I frankly would be doubtful about walking away with dissing rights because their operating system got cracked in 9hrs 5mins when mine might have been cracked in 9hrs 8mins or faster had the...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Hacking, Linux, hack contest, Leopard, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- My New Year's resolutions
- My New Year's resolutionsAnother resolution for you...My wife has read your blogs, and she thinks you should do a blog dedicated to budgeting - how you do it professionally within the small town of which you write, and how to do it personally with 5 children and a wife who...
- Tags: Sales channel, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, direct marketing, blog, income
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
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