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Seadragon and Surface are two illustrations of technologies developed by Microsoft which can combine to deliver unique results. An example is the video embedded at the bottom of this article courtesy of Eric Havir, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing at Microsoft Surface. Albeit a tad old, the video from the Micro... |
26 September 2008
11:06 GMT |
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With Silverlight, Microsoft is challenging Adobe's Flash position of the ubiquitous tool for the development of web-based Rich Interactive Applications. Now at Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, the Redmond company is working not only to spread the technology as much as possible to end users, but also to attract developers... |
9 September 2008
05:00 GMT |
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In what is without a doubt a politically correct move from Microsoft, the Redmond giant has announced that it will attempt to marry its technology with politics for the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008. In the constant race for votes, both Democrats and Republicans have turned to Micros... |
20 August 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has geared up its resources for the 2008 Olympic Games, and as the sporting celebration debuts today, August 8, 2008, a wide range of its software products and online services will parade content from the Beijing event. From MSN to Live Search, and from Windows Media Center, to the Xbox console, and to the ... |
8 August 2008
07:39 GMT |
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Microsoft, MSN and NBC are gearing up for what the Redmond company referred to as a groundbreaking online Olympics viewing experience, nothing short of the most widely watched Olympic event via the Internet. And Silverlight 2 will be placed firmly at the heart of the sporting competition, courtesy of the NBCOlympics.... |
30 July 2008
07:13 GMT |
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One of the aspects of Internet Explorer that evolved with the introduction of IE 8 Beta 1 is related to AJAX navigation. This is because of Microsoft's commitment to aligning IE with the latest versions of modern web standards. In this context, in its default standards rendering mode, IE8, even as early as Beta ... |
15 July 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is looking, via a partnership with Zignals a start-up based in Ireland, to implement a service aimed at online investors designed to deliver "cutting-edge resource to market," according to the company. The new online service will be built with the latest Microsoft technology, and will have Silverlight at it... |
12 June 2008
08:49 GMT |
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With all organic attempts to grow its share on the search engine market turned to dust and with a Yahoo marriage failed miserably, Microsoft is turning to desperate measures, suited for the desperate times it has to endure in the Google monopoly. The Redmond company announced that it has inked the biggest Live Search... |
2 June 2008
12:16 GMT |
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The equivalent of Microsoft's Silverlight but for Linux operating systems is available for download as of May 13, 2008, under the label Moonlight. According to the official description of the technology, Moonlight is nothing more than the open source implementation of Silverlight, tailored for UNIX systems. With... |
15 May 2008
05:36 GMT |
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In the constant race for increased clinical effectiveness and enhanced patient safety, Microsoft has updated its Health Common User Interface. Built via a partnership with the National Health Service (NHS) in England, the Microsoft Health CUI is designed to enable healthcare organizations to take advantage of a commo... |
13 May 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Microsoft is not replacing rival RIA technology Flash from Adobe with its own equivalent Silverlight across the entire span of its web properties. But this is merely a temporary situation representatives from the Redmond company explained. The question is of course focused on why isn't Microsoft completely embra... |
12 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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The biggest winner in the Microsoft PhizzPop Design Challenge is the Redmond company's very own Silverlight technology. The PhizzPop Design Challenge brought together no less than 30 web design and development companies that had to build solutions tailored for the Windows Live platform and using Silverlight. Con... |
17 April 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded the level of support it is offering for what the company referred to as the entire digital content lifecycle. Creating new materials, management tasks and the distribution and delivery of content, requires specialized solutions, and Microsoft has the right tools to get the job done. At the NAB... |
15 April 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Microsoft's Flash killer, Silverlight, is on track to get digital rights management just like the company's latest Windows client, Windows Vista. Microsoft has faced a barrage of criticism over the content protection capabilities in Vista, and the subject is bound to yet again come into play with Silverligh... |
14 April 2008
12:43 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Incorporated has just announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, Adobe's award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser in future versions of Mic... |
17 March 2008
10:12 GMT |
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Hard rock is without a doubt an expression of art that has found its place in music history. And at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft brought its own rock 'n' roll to the table via a collaboration with Hard Rock. This year's Microsoft's Web developer and designer conference was indeed c... |
6 March 2008
11:41 GMT |
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With codename Salsa (initially reported by LiveSide), Microsoft is essentially making its Adobe Flash killer piggyback ride MSN. The move is designed to take advantage of the almost half a billion users of the MSN portal in order for some of the success to rub off on Silverlight. And the new MSN Toolbar is set up to ... |
29 February 2008
09:04 GMT |
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According to the latest statistics from Internet metrics company comScore, "77.6 million viewers watched 3.2 billion videos on YouTube.com (41.6 videos per viewer)" in December 2007 alone, and taking into consideration only U.S. users. This gives Google no less than 32.6% of all the videos served in the last month of... |
13 February 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Microsoft has put up an invitation to share the love, but not with Linux (just bear with me, it will make sense in the end). With Valentine's Day just a few weeks away, the teams over at Windows Live and Microsoft Silverlight have joined their forces to enable users to spread and share their love. Obviously, the... |
22 January 2008
09:10 GMT |
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As far as multimedia experiences and rich interactive applications for the web go, until now Adobe's Flash has become the general standard. With an install base rather the same size as that of the Windows operating system, Flash is nothing short of ubiquitous. But Microsoft also has something up its sleeve, name... |
22 January 2008
03:12 GMT |
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Like many other Microsoft projects including MSN and Windows Live and Windows Vista and Windows XP, the Redmond company is not the one to back down from a little in-house competition. And in this context, the Microsoft Download Center is an illustrative example of Microsoft products coming in pairs. The Redmond compa... |
14 January 2008
07:05 GMT |
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When it comes down to browser plug-ins designed to deliver rich media content and interactivity to websites, Microsoft's Silverlight technology, which debuted in 2007, is the undisputed underdog in comparison to Adobe's Flash. But Silverlight is still a young technology, and Microsoft is struggling to get i... |
8 January 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Microsoft will have an important role in the upcoming release of the Jackass 2.5 movie, available for free on the Internet, via its Silverlight technology. Jackass 2.5 is essentially a collection of stunts, now in the trademark style of Jackass, which failed to make the cut for Jackass Number Two. Starting on Decemb... |
14 December 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Welcome to the Microsoft Christmas CoolWall. What is it and what can you do with it? Well, first of all, it is a project designed to permit Microsoft to flex its Silverlight and Live Search muscles in a brand new combination. But, the mixture of the two technologies from the Redmond company makes up quite an interest... |
11 December 2007
10:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is stepping up its Silverlight game. Together with the National Basketball Association, the Redmond company is getting ready to slam dunk its Silverlight technology on NBA.com, WNBA.com and NBADevelopmentLeague.com. The move is but the latest in a subtle Microsoft campaign designed to bring Silverlight into... |
11 December 2007
03:22 GMT |
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Yes, Christmas is almost here, but this only means that 'tis the right season for some development involving Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight. Tim Sneath, Microsoft resident group manager for client platforms, made sure to send out invitations to the contest season for WPF and Silverlight. Well, t... |
5 December 2007
06:09 GMT |
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YouTube clones for all, courtesy of Microsoft. This perspective, although it might seem somewhat far fetched, is actually close to taking contour. And the Redmond company, together with Vertigo Software, made one step closer to such scenarios, having updated Video.Show to Release Candidate 1.0 stage. Vertigo Software... |
3 December 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Popfly is a Microsoft tool built on Silverlight and hosted online, set up to streamline the process associated with code design to a mundane experience by transitioning programming under a graphical user interface umbrella. In this manner, users will be able to create "mashups", gadgets, Web pages and applications wi... |
18 October 2007
12:29 GMT |
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New imagery is available for download straight from Microsoft, designed to integrate seamlessly with the desktop real estate space on your copy of Windows Vista. The new content offered by the Redmond company is centered around the visual style associated with Silverlight, Microsoft's "cross-browser, cross-platf... |
18 October 2007
11:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is literally embracing rival products. The Redmond company is little shy about using Google for search, Mac OS X as an operating system and is increasingly getting ready for Linux, offering interoperability and support. Case in point: Silverlight 1.0. Silverlight is Microsoft's alternative to Adobe... |
6 September 2007
12:34 GMT |
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The final release of Silverlight 1.0 is available for download from Microsoft and it debuts hungry for market share and gunning after Adobe's Flash. Silverlight is essentially nothing more than Microsoft's vision of a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in designed to be the source of rich online user experi... |
5 September 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Tafiti is a fresh Microsoft move against Internet search giant Google. The Redmond company is slowly crawling up the search engine market, at an almost insignificant pace, while the major Internet metrics companies have it as the traditional bronze winner in a three-horse race. However, Microsoft did indicate a new a... |
22 August 2007
03:16 GMT |
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In the first half of July, Microsoft was wrapping up the first release candidate for its Adobe Flash killer, and promising a release by the end of the month. Well, the Redmond company managed to get through the stabilization stage, and Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. With this new m... |
30 July 2007
02:51 GMT |
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A while ago, Miguel de Icaza, Novell's vice president of development and the lead developer of the Mono project, has shared with the Mono development community his plans of making an experimental Linux-based Silverlight browser plug-in. These days, he announced the successful results of no less than 21 days of ... |
22 June 2007
11:32 GMT |
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Miguel de Icaza, lead developer of the Mono project, has recently shared the Mono development community plans of making an experimental Linux-based Silverlight browser plug-in. He also said that the Mono team will use the documentation published by Microsoft in order to achieve this goal. Moreover, the plug-in is sa... |
8 May 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Microsoft wants web developers and designers to adopt its new perspective over lighting up the web. This is why MIX07 was focused on Microsoft's new cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in Silverlight designed to help build the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs... |
3 May 2007
03:35 GMT |
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Microsoft is planting the seeds for the next generation of web development and design at MIX 2007, in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. And both Silverlight 1.0 Beta and Silverlight 1.1 Alpha are an integer part of the Redmond Company's vision for the evolution of development and design for the web. Delivering th... |
1 May 2007
09:56 GMT |
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Users will be able to upload up to 4 GB of media content in the Microsoft cloud and have the files globally cached. A Silverlight Streaming account is the only requirement before upload is opened. Microsoft has debuted Silverlight Streaming, an online service designed to function in conjunction with the Silverlight b... |
1 May 2007
07:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available additional content for Windows Vista Ultimate DreamScene. The new materials made available for download only come to emphasize Microsoft's increasing commitment to user experience. In this context, the Redmond Company is offering for your desktop pleasure the "Dusk" video wallpaper d... |
30 April 2007
06:23 GMT |
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Windows Vista music is contagious. Well, actually it is music that has been used for Windows Vista back when the operating system was still in development and referred to with the code-name Longhorn. But one way or the other Windows Vista is inspiring a range of Microsoft products and Silverlight is simply an excelle... |
19 April 2007
07:22 GMT |
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Right... The past week, in case you've missed it, Microsoft unveiled the Windows Presentation Foundation Live Rich Client ActiveX Player R2 Ultimate Edition Service Pack 1 CTP. Well, not actually. You see, it ended up as Microsoft Silverlight, the former Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, but it did com... |
19 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Microsoft Silverlight is, in the Redmond Company's perspective, the solution that will power the next generation of media experiences on the web and also a direct competitor to the ubiquitous Adobe Flash technology. While gunning down for Adobe Flash, Microsoft has ensured that Silverlight will enjoy from the ge... |
16 April 2007
03:51 GMT |
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