Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Photography, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix.
Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Tech Events, WPF on Mar 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
…one the most amazing and unexpected announcements of the whole keynote came for me in a WPF demo towards the end.
In an update to WPF that should be available some time this summer, we’re going to get SHADER SUPPORT in WPF.
Yes, that kind of shader.
It was demoed during the keynote with some custom shaders being [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
First let’s get to the obvious Silverlight announcements we “knew” were coming during this keynote:
- Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available!
- Expression Blend 2.5 (!) March Preview is available!
- [update] Silverlight Beta tools for Visual Studio 2008 are available
- formal announcement of Silverlight Mobile device support!
In my presentation last weekend I was asked about Silverlight [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Tech Events on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
After a brief intro by Scott Guthrie, the technical component of the keynote began with Dean Hackamovitch’s first public demo of IE8.
[Quick update: you can download the IE8 Beta here.]
I know that this conference is fundamentally about connected systems, and the web browser is a vitally important component.
But I thought this was a profoundly boring [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve just stepped out from the first Mix Keynote I’ve attended as a consultant rather than a Microsoftie. There was no real shocker in there, but it was a solid keynote and I am enthused by a couple of exciting announcements
Ray Ozzie began by saying he sees Mix08 as one of several milestones on a [...]
