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Silverlight: A platform from Microsoft for developing rich client applications on Windows and Mac computers. Delivered as a plug-in for the Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers, Silverlight supports advanced...; Full Silverlight Definition >>

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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
Rich Internet Applications make big splash on PCWorld's top 25 sites to watch: It looks like PCWorld thinks Rich Internet Applications RIAs are going to be a big thing to watch this year because their list of the Top 25 sites to watch has a few recognizable names. The first is Popfly, Microsoft's mashup creator that is targeted at geeks and average users...; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Goowy, Flex, Flash; Blog posts 2007-06-18
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

Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications: There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....; Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax; Blog posts 2007-06-01
Sun enters the Rich Internet Application world with JavaFX: Infoworld is reporting that Sun will announce JavaFX on Tuesday which will be a response to the growing popularity of technologies like Ajax, Flash and Silverlight. The platform uses the Java runtime and a scripting language called JavaFX Script which is "focused on the content-authoring and content creation crowd....; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Flash, Ajax, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-05-08
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
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
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
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
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
The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies: Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...; Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Monday morning hangover: Adobe and Microsoft: Big announcements this morning that are prompting a lot of discussion on the web. One interesting thing is that the conversation about the Microsoft and Adobe announcement are all on the same Techmeme thread. Why? Because the announcements today are more signs that Microsoft and Adobe are on a collision...; Tags: WFP/E, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flash, Apollo, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-04-16
"View Source" and Rich Internet Application misconceptions: Today at the Web 2.0 Expo, I sat in on a panel with Richard MacManus, Kelly Goto, Chris Messina and . They talked about the "hybrid designer" and touched on some points about the web and the richness that has really created the "hybrid" notion. In one bit, Chris said...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-04-16
"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight, struts its video side: At the NAB conference this morning, Microsoft is giving us a first glimpse at Silverlight, the artist formerly known as "WPF/E". Because the announcement comes from the NAB conference, but also because its one of Silverlights major strong points, Microsoft is talking a lot about video. I was briefed about...; Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Silverlight; Blog posts 2007-04-15

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Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24