(Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere) See Silverlight.
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- Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesAgree that Flash has the disadvantage...... of being turned off by anyone with a distaste for blinking ads and enough interest in software to find the program needed?Any loss of content resulting from disabling Flash on a few pages is more than offset by all the ads that don't appear.While...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Silverlight...coming soon to Linux
- Miguel de Icaza recently said he would bring support for Microsofts new Silverlight architecture to Linux by the end of the year. Silverlight, formerly called WPFe, is the new Microsoft technology that brings a subset of WPF, the .NET 3.0 interface development framework originally designed for Vista and that uses...
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLR
- Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLRSemantic discontinuityIt's not "cross-platform;" it still only runs on MS systems. However, it does work with non-MS browsers [u]on[/u] MS systems.That may well be Microsoft's definition of "cross-platform," but since not everyone uses Microsoft's definition yet it would be appreciated if journalists (not naming...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- Apple TV and Mac Office
- According to this post over on Apple Insider found by way of Engadget, Apple might have some gaming plans for their new Apple TV set-top box device. The evidence is mildly forensic, based as it is on some message strings from a localization table included with the latest release of...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Keep an eye on WPF/E
- Keep an eye on WPF/Evista for devsThe Windows Presentation Foundation seems extremely powerful. I don't personally work at the front of the tech wave, but try to stay informed. I've known WPF and WPF/e are very important for a long while. I have to admit I'm not sure of the...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Vista vs. members of the "Silly" party
- Vista vs. members of the "Silly" partyGood comment.There's often an opposite way to express the same point.As an example, take the statement, "Microsoft does X better than any other company or organization. It's a uniquely effective solution." It can become, "Microsoft furthers lock-in with their proprietary solution."Microsoft doesn't...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Vista vs. members of the "Silly" party
- Vista is officially being released today. That might explain why last week a group named ECIS that has represented European competitors to Microsoft before the European Commission "sounded the alarm" about Microsofts supposed intention to replace web programming linchpin HTML with XAML / WPF. Ignore for the moment that you...
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- 10 Predictions for Rich Internet Applications in 2007
- 10 Predictions for Rich Internet Applications in 2007JFC/Swing/SWTI am surprised to see that you didn't include Java...Message has been deleted.Written by MS PR firm?This reads like a MSFT PR press hit. Just like every other trend in the last 10 years, MSFT is behind the curve. Apple and...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
- Swimming with Vista Media Center
- Been busy again. Hard to write blogs when you are spending your days and evenings doing the stuff that pays the bills. I did notice that I now have a very big head hovering over my blogs. Yes, I saw the photo before I submitted it,...
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
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