Category: News
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Halo 3 on MSN
And while you’re checking out Silverlight, be sure to check out the Halo3 movies on MSN. The site is powered by Silverlight so enjoy the HD videos. And speaking from experience, the game is the best of the trilogy… Halo 3 on MSN
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Liftoff and Linux!
Let’s get right to the point. The rumors are true: Silverlight 1.0 has been released to the web and Microsoft is lending official support to the Linux version (named “Moonlight”) under development at Novell. We’re also releasing Expression Encoder 1.0. Good news all around and lots of fun toys for you all to play with.…
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And the Winner is…
Two award winners from our stables today. one is Silverlight which landed as one of C|Net’s best 100 Web apps, according to user voting. That’s pretty good for a product that hasn’t actually been released yet! The interest around Silverlight has really surpassed our expectations. The page mentions that Silverlight is young technology and is just getting…
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Mix07 Swag!
Here’s a sneak peak at the swag from Mix07 for those of you who couldn’t get in or haven’t picked up yours yet. Note the free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate, the colored armbands that indicate whether you’re a designer, developer, or business minded person (or any combination of the above), and last but not…
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PCMag Picks Expression Web over Dreamweaver CS3
PC Magazine just concluded their review of Dreamweaver CS3 by giving the nod to Expression Web for Editors’ Choice. “Expression Web gets many basic jobs done much more elegantly, so it keeps our Editors’ Choice…” And in their recent review of Expression Web, they said that the bottom line in this competition is: “Unless you’re married…
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Free WPF Tools
I’m glad to say that for the first time, we have some free developer tools for XAML and WPF. John Montgomery has blogged about it here and includes some links. Although this is still a CTP, it’s a CTP of some tools that are always free as in beer. The C# patch is up and the VB…
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Microsoft Redefines RIA!
Some people were fussing last week about the latest evil scheme by Micro$oft to take over the world via the insidious renaming of the term Rich Internet Application to Rich Interactive Application. Curses! Foiled again! You got us on that one. After running all the simulations on Hal XP, we calculated that changing that one…
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Silverlight!
Hello to a clean, well-lit name and good riddance to the worst code name ever, “WPF/E”. Well, IceWeasel and Brady Bunch weren’t stellar either but at least they were easier to type. Try typing “WPF/E” five times quickly and you’ll see what I mean. Yes, the quotes have to be around it as well. In…
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Dobrodošli na strani Windows Vista!
Yeah, you heard me right. Well, I’m not sure what it actually means but *my* translation is: “Check out this cool Vista emulation that is built entirely in WPF/E + JavaScript.” This thing has a media player that plays videos, an alert system, a working vista sidebar-style clock and other gadgets, and a bunch of other…
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designertopia
Registration is now open for the designertopia conference being held in the UK Feb. 1st-2nd of next year. In addition to the expected presentation of Microsoft’s new offerings in this arena, there are some interesting sessions listed such as this one: Young designers integrate technology into everyday objects with humorous, subversive or playful effect. Examples…