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- 'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?
- Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Microsoft seeks to redefine RIA with Silverlight
- Nearly everyone in the tech industry uses RIA as an acronym for "Rich Internet Applications." But not Microsoft. In Redmonds case, RIA stands for Rich Interactive Applications -- a term and topic the Softies are planning to make a focus during Microsofts appearance at the National Association of...
- Tags: Zune, WPF/e, Expression Studio, Development tools, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Ray Ozzie on Adobe and software as a service
- Knowledge@Wharton just published an interview with Ray Ozzie in which he talks about Microsoft, software as a service, and a little bit on Adobe: In the docs and spreadsheets realm, I believe there are certain uses of spreadsheets in particular, where the sharing model [enabled by] using...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, WFP/E
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Microsoft Tech Summit: The 'non-fanboys' descend on Redmond
- Microsoft is big on inviting not just its customers and partners, but non-believers, too, to visit the Microsoft campus and discover for themselves that Softies are people, too. (And who better to ask than Java, PHP and Linux developers -- as Microsoft execs seemingly did several times during...
- Tags: WPF/e, Windows server, Windows client, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Shared Source, Linux, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Microsoft: Time to bring on the wpf/e dev tools
- Now that Adobe has released the alpha build of Apollo, its time for Microsoft to show its hand, in terms of its plans to create a development environment for coders interested in its WPF/E Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere technology. Apollo is Adobes cross-operating-system runtime that is designed to allow...
- Tags: WPF/E, tool, Microsoft Corp., Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Microsoft Expression Blend release candidate now available
- This almost slipped off of my radar as I was checking feeds today, but according to the Expression Blog, Microsoft rolled out the release candidate version of Blend tonight. Blend is an interactive designer for creating XAML-based applications and is part of Microsofts Expression Studio. I havent heard...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., release-candidate, Microsoft Expression, WPF/E
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Tool for creating "wpf/e" apps on the horizon?
- I always feel a odd bringing up shortcomings for products that are still very much in development like Apollo or "WPF/E", but one of the complaints Ive heard about WPF/E is the lack of a specific tool targeted at the XAML that WPF/E uses. Blend is a great tool for...
- Tags: WFP/E, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Expression Studio, Devigner Workflow, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Keep an eye on wpf/e
- Theres been some buzz today on the web about WPF/E. Simon asks if Microsoft is screwing it up, while Robert talks about the future of .NET. WPF/E is a tough product. The codename was supposed to imply that it would be WPF everywhere, but when it was released, it was...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- A list of Rich Internet Application Technologies for the Digg crowd
- This comment thread made me realize that there is still a lot of confusion about what the different RIA technologies do. Statements like "Flex is Adobes AJAX offering." or "Flex is like a weak version of WPF/E when it comes down to it." just show people havent quite grasped where...
- Tags: WFP/E, WPF, Expression Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation, OpenLaszlo, Apollo, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- "wpf/e" not shipping first release with C# and CLR support
- Microsoft is talking about its Expression Studio product at the Future of Web Apps event in London and Tim Anderson had some interesting information from some of the folks working the Microsoft booth: A couple of notes on Microsoft, a newcomer to this conference and showing off...
- Tags: .NET 3.0, Expression Studio, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Rich Internet Applications are terrible at 'view source'
- Theres a good post over at Ajaxian about how more and more Ajax applications are taking steps to obfuscate their source code. The view source issue is, in my opinion, the greatest threat to steady adoption of Rich Internet Applications out there. I love Flash and Flex, and I...
- Tags: Ajax, Flash, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Microsoft's 'Flash-killer' now supports Firefox on the Mac
- The latest Community Technology Preview CTP test builds of Microsofts Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) product went live this week. As of this build, Microsoft is supporting, for the first time, the Firefox on the Mac. WPF/E is, in Microsofts words, "a browser enhancement module that enables browsers to render...
- Tags: Development tools, Internet Explorer, WPF/e
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- "wpf/e" February CTP is live
- I just got a note from Sean Alexander that the February CTP is live over at the Microsoft Download Center. Mike Harsh has a bit of info but it sounds like theyll be updating the "WPF/E" developer center to talk about the changes in this version tomorrow morning. According to...
- Tags: February CTP, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WPF/E
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Apollo and Flex at DEMO and Expression Studio Betas
- Its been a busy day but there was a lot of interesting stuff. Brandon was the first to point out that Apollo was presented at DEMO you can bid on the shirt they used to demo the application. GigaOm did the live blogging and had this to say:...
- Tags: Adobe, Apollo, Expression Studio, Flash, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WPF/E
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Microsoft delivers two new design-tool betas
- The Microsoft Expression team has made available two new beta builds that folks interested in Microsofts evolving design-tool products and strategy might want to check out. Theres a new build (Beta 2) of Expression Blend, the product formerly code-named "Sparkle" and a first full-fledged beta build of Expression...
- Tags: Development tools, Expression Studio, WPF/e
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Why wpf/e is a big deal: BBC on Flash Video
- I caught this post by Stefan Richter about changes to the BBC website and how despite a lot of public comment, BBC chose not to use Flash Video for news stories. As Stephan notes, the reason seems to be that the cost to add Flash Video to their infrastructure was...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Online Video, Flash Video
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Is "Technology X" a desktop version of the .NET Framework for Mac?
- This "Technology X" thing on the About page of Mix 07 is killing me. I cant tell if its something big or something small that Ive already heard of. Mary Jo Foley solicited ideas for it and garnered a bunch of responses. WPF/E and WPF are already mentioned on that...
- Tags: .NET, Desktops, desktop, WPF/E, Microsoft .NET Framework, Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2007-01-14
- Some clarifications on wpf/e from Scott Guthrie
- On Thursday Channel 9 posted a video with Scott Guthrie and Scott covered a wide array of topics including a bit about Expression and WPF/E. There was also some information that I hadnt ever heard before. Scott said that "2007 is going to be a pretty fun year from a...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Expression Studio, Mix07, WPF/E
- Blog posts 2007-01-14
- What's Microsoft's mysterious 'Technology X'?
- An eagle-eyed reader pointed me to a cryptic line on the just-launched Microsoft Mix 07 Web site. Just below the "If you are a Web developer," there are some bullets suggesting reasons to attend the late-April developer conference, including one that promises attendees the ability to create "exciting new...
- Tags: WPF/e, Expression Studio, Code names, Visual Studio Orcas, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Microsoft's Mix 07 registration opens
- I saw over on Cnet that Microsoft has opened registration for Mix 07. I think Mix is going to be a very, very solid conference. As the CNet article notes, this is Microsoft branching out and having a conversation with developers about their web technologies. The fact that Ray Ozzie...
- Tags: WPF/E, Mix07, Devigner Workflow, Expression Studio, Design, Ajax, Atlas, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
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