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One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?

At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, Microsoft and Yahoo made a big deal out of a Vista-optimized version of Yahoo Messenger that was supposedly one of many compelling Windows Presentation Foundation WPF apps in the pipeline. On December 6, one year later, Yahoo announced a pre-beta...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Client Platform Technical Evangelist Tim Sneath, Sneath, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-06

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Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...

Tags: cloud computing, Strategy, Media Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., open-Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Microsoft PDC 2009: What's on tap for developers this November?

Microsoft PDC 2009: What's on tap for developers this November?Silverlight MobileI hope they finally, finally open up some silverlight mobile goods. My waiting listVisual Studio 2010.WorkFlow 4.0C# 4Oslo.A preview of SilverLight 4 would be nice but probably too much to ask.What about WPF?Hey, Mary Jo,I scanned your post for "WPF"....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telephony, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

So long and thanks for all the fish

So long and thanks for all the fishGood Luck!Good luck with your career Ryan. Your blog has been fun - particularly in the early years. Now browser apps are continuing to become progressively richer, and desktop apps are almost all becoming Internet connected. It's kind of nice when people start...

Tags: Blogging, Universal Desktop, Ryan, fish, blog

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Windows 7: preview of final user interface and 'studenty' features

It's a difficult and strange time for many in the IT industry. It seems most people from home consumers to students, IT professionals and governments have rejected Windows Vista, and many have their reservations about Windows 7. Will it be another disaster like Vista? Or will it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDC, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released

Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Tim Sneath has a very long and detailed post of the features but I'll try and break down the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-12

WPF versions of Calculator, Paint, and WordPad in Windows 7

WPF versions of Calculator, Paint, and WordPad in Windows 7My biggest concern...Is how much junk is Microsoft going to try to load at boot that will have your system resources begging for mercy? That's my biggest complaint about Vista: I think I would enjoy my "Vista Experience" a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), .NET, WordPad, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Times Reader SDK released

Tim Sneath announced today that Microsoft is releasing the Syndicated Client Experiences Start Kit (and they were doing so well with names like Silverlight!) which is based on the SDK that the teams used to create the New York Times Reader, one of my favorite WPF applications and rich Internet...

Tags: Application, Financial, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, SDK, New York Times Co., Financial Accounting, Finance, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Big changes in the Silverlight roadmap

Scott Guthrie just posted some new information about Silverlight and the roadmap for releases. The first thing is that they are going to rebrand it as an entirely different version so Silverlight 1.1 is no more and we'll be talking about Silverlight 2.0. We'll also be seeing a beta of...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Scott, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Silverlight release candidate now available

Tim Sneath posted on his blog that the RC1 build for Silverlight 1.0 is available for download. Version 1.0 of Silverlight is targeted at web video and not as much at developers like the 1.1 release will be. Andy Plesser from Beet.TV has some more info and a chat with...

Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-07-28

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

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

A YouTube Competitor in Silverlight and 1080p Flash Video

Microsoft may be looking to create a competitor to YouTube that would support user uploaded content and 720p video. BigMouthMedia has some quotes from Tim Sneath, the group manager for WPF/Silverlight evangelism at Microsoft about their desire to deliver a new kind of experience for video-sharing.Rich media is getting a...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash

Blog posts 2007-06-12

I'm excited about Windows Vista

So after a long haul, Vista is finally hitting store shelves. Ive been using it for a couple of months now and for the most part, I like it. I absolutely HATE User Account Control and its caused me some headaches I cant elaborate on for NDA reasons and every...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Ive, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-01-29

My thoughts on Expression Session 07

I had a very, very long day yesterday that revolved around what I thought was an extremely good Expression Session by Microsoft. This was the first run of the event there are two more in Chicago and New York and while there were a couple of rough spots, for the...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Burton, GPS

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, January 09, 2007

I noticed that Jeremy Suriel of Goowy and Yourminis has a blog. Hes got a lot of experience in building RIAs and Im looking forward to reading what he has to say. Aral Balkan has a detailed writeup of the FlashFoward MacWorld Keynote. There were some good demos and...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Yahoo, Windows Presentation Foundation, Goowy, WPF

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Universal Desktop Daily - Monday, December 11, 2006

Mike Downey blogged up a storm this weekend and has a bunch of interesting Flash-related posts that are worth checking out. Flash Panoramas is probably the coolest thing he mentions. Ted Patrick posted about the Top 10 Myths about Adobe Flex 2.0 and anyone who is looking at Flex...

Tags: Tim Sneath, WPF/E, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-11

The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new face

The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new faceVideo LinksThis video shows WPF/E running on a Mac by the WPF/E team. http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=193367The page also contains links to WPF/E running on mobile devices etc...More corrections[i]Interestingly, Microsoft is bringing its own Flash competitor to market that will run on other...

Tags: Web, XML, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, E4X, rich Internet application

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Mike Potter of Adobe announced a Ruby on Rails SDK for Flex 2. A couple of weeks ago, he released the PHP SDK for Flex 2, and this is a project in a similar vein. It's an open source project and Mike has done a very good job of...

Tags: Wiki, Localized RIA, WPF, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-09-05