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- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Code names, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Microsoft starts rolling out several tool test releases
- Microsoft tool testers will have lots of new builds to play with this week.Microsoft is expecting to deliver a public Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") Beta 2 for download on Friday, July 27, company officials said. It will roll out simultaneously Beta 2 of the .Net Framework 3.5. Microsoft is expecting...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Expression Studio, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- 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
- Microsoft's cool naming trend is over
- It was a short but good run: Silverlight, Popfly, Surface. But it's over.At TechEd 2007, Microsoft officials announced the final names of "Katmai," the next version of its SQL Server database, and "Orcas," the forthcoming Visual Studio release.Katmai will be known as "Microsoft SQL Server 2008." And Orcas is "Microsoft...
- Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, SQL Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Database, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Putting lipstick on a cancelled PDC pig
- Microsoft announced late on Thursday May 24 that it has cancelled the Professional Developers Conference PDC that was slated for this October.Microsoft said it had decided to "reschedule" the event to some unspecified future date. The notice of the cancellation is on the Microsoft Developer Network MSDN Web site:"As the...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Sun's JavaFX = Microsoft Silverlight (in theory, at least)
- At JavaOne today, Sun announced a new Java scripting environment and a new Java platform of tools and software that it plans to make consistent across everything from cell phones to desktops for "all of human kind." So is Suns newly unveiled JavaFX really a Microsoft Silverlight killer? Its...
- Tags: Visual Studio Orcas, Silverlight (wpf/e), Expression Studio, Development tools, Corporate strategy, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesAgree that Flash has the disadvantage...... of being turned off by anyone with a distaste for blinking ads and enough interest in software to find the program needed?Any loss of content resulting from disabling Flash on a few pages is more than offset by all the ads that don't appear.While...
- Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., AJAX, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Java, Microsoft ASP.NET
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- Change is endemic to computer programming. That fact was part of a discussion I had with one of the managers here in Mountain View. Computer professionals tend to get wedded to technology they know, which to a certain extent is understandable. I know English very well, and though I can...
- Tags: General, Programming, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Silverlight...coming soon to Linux
- Miguel de Icaza recently said he would bring support for Microsofts new Silverlight architecture to Linux by the end of the year. Silverlight, formerly called WPFe, is the new Microsoft technology that brings a subset of WPF, the .NET 3.0 interface development framework originally designed for Vista and that uses...
- Tags: Web Technology, Programming, Open Source, Microsoft, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLR
- Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLRSemantic discontinuityIt's not "cross-platform;" it still only runs on MS systems. However, it does work with non-MS browsers [u]on[/u] MS systems.That may well be Microsoft's definition of "cross-platform," but since not everyone uses Microsoft's definition yet it would be appreciated if journalists (not naming...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Problem Here, EULA, CLR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
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