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- What's new in Windows Live Messenger 9
- A quick look over the new features of a pre-release Windows Live Messenger 9, how students can use the features to their advantage, and how we'll benefit from it. Thanks for the support of LiveSide, the legends that they are. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Windows Live, Microsoft, Students, Collaboration, Instant messaging, Social networking, WPF, Wave 3
- Image galleries 2008-08-31
- StandOut
- Electric Rain's StandOut presentation application built using WPF. by Ryan Stewart
- Tags: screenshots, StandOut, Electric Rain, wpf, Electric Rain Inc., Ryan Stewart
- Image galleries 2007-10-24
- IronRuby pre-alpha release available
- John Lam and Scott Guthrie both have posts about the pre-alpha availability of IronRuby, a Ruby implementation for .NET. IronRuby is one of four languages that will be supported in .NET via the Dynamic Language Runtime DLR that Microsoft announced at MIX. The others are IronPython, JavaScript and Dynamic VB....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Microsoft, .NET 3.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Do new verticals need a killer desktop application?
- I heard an interesting statement today about the role of desktop applications in new mediums and taking technologies to the next level. Think about email and the move to more rich experiences. Pine was great and the first thing I used to check email. But it wasn't something that most...
- Tags: WPF, Rich Internet Applications, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Rich Enterprise Applications with Microsoft "Acropolis"
- This morning Microsoft made a move to bring the power of Windows Presentation Foundation WPF to the enterprise level developers with a Community Technology Preview of "Acropolis". Acropolis is interesting for a couple of big reasons. First of all, it brings Windows Forms WinForms closer WPF. WinForms is a...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications?
- After reading Paul Grahams inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the "real meaning"...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Why Rich Internet Applications are important for the browser
- At Ignite Seattle this evening I hung out with Ted Leung for a while and we chatted about Rich Internet Applications RIAs. Coming from the open source world, he always has a very interesting take on the RIA world and I always learn a ton from him. In this case,...
- Tags: XULRunner, XUL, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Experience, Dekoh
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- 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
- Support for XBAP in Mozilla Firefox is coming
- At an event today on Microsofts campus, Ian Ellison-Tayler, the WPF Product Unit Manager mentioned that XBAP support is coming to Mozilla Firefox as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 update that will ship with Visual Studio "Orcas". Ive covered XBAPs in the past, but for those who arent familiar,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, .NET, Mozilla Corp., Web browser, XBAP, WPF, Mozilla Firefox, XBAPs, Microsoft .NET
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Microsoft, Adobe, and rich versus reach
- With the alpha release of Apollo, all the pieces are on the table and developers can start to experiment with the platforms from Adobe and Microsoft, arguably the two biggest players in the RIA-technology space (as opposed to RIA-solutions themselves). And now that weve seen what everyone has to offer,...
- Tags: AJAX, Microsoft Corp., Apollo, WPF, developer, Ted Patrick, Adobe Systems Inc., desktop
- Blog posts 2007-03-18
- 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
- With their RIA tech, Microsoft could toast Google in the SaaS world
- I have to hand it to Phil, he called me out and pwned me. He gave perfect examples of why data is not necessarily safer in the users hands than it would be with Google. I still think theres something to be said for knowing that Im responsible for my...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Google, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Ajax, WFP/E, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- How Adobe started winning developers
- Theres a post over on Scobles blog that takes on the topic of developers and how Microsoft is hemmoraging them while Adobe seems to be gaining them. It really has been astounding to watch this company known for its "uppity designers" (kidding!) take the developer world by almost total surprise....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Flash, WFP/E, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- 5 Rich Internet Application conferences you should attend this year
- This post is long overdue, and I apologize because I think a lot of people may have spent their conference budgets or already made plans. In fact some conferences, like 360 Flex, are already sold out. We have a rich slate of conferences to choose from this year, which...
- Tags: Adobe, Ajax, Apollo, Cynergy, Design, Flash, Flex, Microsoft, Mix07, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- A new WPF reader application by Identity Mine
- Weve heard a lot of good things so far about the New York Times reader that Microsoft and the NYT Co. worked to put together to showcase WPF technologies. Now an independent firm, Identity Mine has taken the idea and run with it creating branded reading experiences built on Windows...
- Tags: .NET 3.0, Identity Mine, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
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