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November is over and Microsoft did not deliver to its promise to make Silverlight 5 available, nor did the company offer specific info on when the technology might be ready.
Of course, the RC version of Silverlight 5 is out since September, but the gold flavor of the plug-in is still unavailable on the web.
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1 December 2011
07:50 GMT |
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The Windows Phone Marketplace is expanding fast, especially now that Microsoft and Nokia are luring developers into joining the Windows Phone troops, and new documentation for those interested in venturing on this road is now available.
We're referring here to the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth... |
22 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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On Thursday, Paramount Digital Entertainment announced the release of a number of ten new movie apps for Paramount Pictures films, exclusively available on devices powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system.Through the new applications users would enjoy the possibility to watch, clip, share and int... |
20 May 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Want to gain some insight into the evolution of Silverlight from version 1 to the latest Beta development milestone? Then Microsoft has just the right resource for you, the Silverlight Release History. Available through the Microsoft Download Center the Silverlight Release History is a .htm file which enumerates all... |
2 May 2011
09:35 GMT |
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What better way to celebrate Christmas than taking Santa himself into Windows Azure, given Microsoft’s increasing focus on the Cloud?Microsoft UK has put together a festive game which provides an example of the kind of experiences that are made possible by leveraging technologies such as Windows Azure and Silve... |
21 December 2010
04:13 GMT |
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The advent of the next major iteration of Silverlight will be synonymous with the launch of a full 64-bit version of the technology’s runtime, in addition to the 32-bit release, according to Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform. Guthrie announced on December 2nd that Microsoft is ha... |
3 December 2010
08:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to share the first details about the next version of Silverlight, its Adobe Flash alternative. Today, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform will keynote the Silverlight Firestarter in Redmond, Wash. The event is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. PST on... |
2 December 2010
04:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly working to expand Silverlight to new territories, beyond the platforms where the technology is already available, namely Windows, Mac OS X, Windows Phone, set-to-boxes and Linux through the Moonlight project. According to information in two job postings from the Redmond company, the plan is t... |
23 November 2010
06:52 GMT |
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There are now less than two weeks until Microsoft will unveil its future plans for Silverlight, its Adobe Flash rival technology. The Redmond company is most likely going to share the first details on the successor of Silverlight 4, which could end up branded as Silverlight 5, although the software giant has yet to ... |
22 November 2010
07:37 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced a new step in the evolution of its mapping, search and location platform, involving a Bing Maps redesign, changes to existing features as well as the release of a new AJAX control.Users already familiar with Bing Maps will notice modifications related to the left hand side panel. According to... |
19 November 2010
07:28 GMT |
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Silverlight certainly has a future at Microsoft, and the company is ready to provide guarantees of this, after the fate of the technology appeared to be in balance, after remarks from Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft at PDC 2010.
Since this year’s Professional Developers ... |
15 November 2010
07:15 GMT |
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Microsoft remains committed to what it calls an important and strategic technology for the company promising that the next version of Silverlight is being developed and that it will be served to the public. Following the 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2010) in Redmond, various press sites started repor... |
2 November 2010
06:57 GMT |
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MSN has armed itself with a range of its own technologies, including Bing Maps, Silverlight and Photosynth, for the Battle of Britain, an interactive Cloud-based guide designed to allow users to get comprehensive insight into the air campaign waged by Luftwaffe against the United Kingdom in the second half of 1940. ... |
13 September 2010
09:55 GMT |
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With Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) having been added to the browser that feature support for HTML5, adoption of the standard will undoubtedly be accelerated across the board, from end users to developers. There is one aspect of HTML5 capable of catalyzing questions about the future relevance of technologies such as Silv... |
2 September 2010
08:00 GMT |
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The Deep Zoom Studio is an online destination designed to highlight some of the best experiences involving Microsoft’s Deep Zoom technology around the web. Users can simply head over to the Deep Zoom Studio website, making sure that they have Silverlight installed, and start exploring t collection of content av... |
19 August 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to be handing out free Windows 7 Phone devices to developers building applications that target the next generation mobile platform. The Redmond company announced a new initiative designed to fuel the interest of developers building mobile applications back in June 2010. At that time, the software ... |
10 August 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Resco, a provider of developer tools for mobile devices, announced that Resco MobileApp Studio would add support for the development of Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 devices. The upgraded development platform is scheduled for release on September 28, 2010.Resco MobileApp Studio is a Microsoft Visual St... |
10 August 2010
04:52 GMT |
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Having taken its alternative to Adobe Flash beyond Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, to Symbian, Microsoft is also providing the necessary resources for developers to start building on top of Nokia’s devices. On the heels of Silverlight for Symbian’s launch, the Redmond company has released the Silverlight for... |
7 July 2010
06:27 GMT |
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One of the latest solutions available for the users of mobile phones running under the Symbian operating system is Silverlight. Coming to handsets as the result of a partnership between the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft and the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, Silverlight for Symbian has just been made gen... |
7 July 2010
02:18 GMT |
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Developers can easily leverage Silverlight on multiple platforms nowadays, including the upcoming version of Windows Compact Embedded (Windows CE). However, there are a few differences that need to be taken into account, as far as the client-side version of Silverlight and the Windows Embedded Compact 7 flavor are co... |
1 July 2010
12:15 GMT |
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s email client sports a range of enhancements, from new features to performance improvements and to integration with major social networks worldwide. But elements of the evolution of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 are also connected to Microsoft Silverlight, a technology the Redmo... |
24 June 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated development resources designed to let customers do without Expression Blend in certain scenarios. New releases of the Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Software Development Kit (SDK) for .NET 4 and the Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Silverlight are now available for d... |
11 June 2010
09:18 GMT |
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The NVIDIA 3D vision technology has been in existence for a while now, but making a PC capable of taking advantage of it was mostly a DIY (do it yourself) process. This changed today, when ASUS made the official introduction of its 3D gaming notebooks. With this as a start, NVIDIA is ready to expand its technolo... |
31 May 2010
10:47 GMT |
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While 3D PCs are already possible, they need to be constructed by Do-It-Yourself (DIY) enthusiasts. However, Following Computex, various original equipment manufacturers and hardware manufacturers will provide customers with a new three-dimensional computing experience right out of the box. According to Brandon LeBla... |
31 May 2010
10:46 GMT |
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France Télévisions and Eurosport have tapped Microsoft technologies in order to enable users of their respective websites to watch high-definition content from the 2010 French Open tennis championships. As of May 26th, 2010, and until June 6th Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming will enable visitors to... |
27 May 2010
07:55 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system Redmond-based software giant Microsoft unveiled officially this year, is set to become available on the market sometime in the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, yet many are certainly interested in learning more on it before it lands. While a great deal of info o... |
24 May 2010
05:38 GMT |
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Although Microsoft only released Streetside on Bing Maps at the start of December 2009, the technology was initially introduced over 2.5 years before, via a technology preview of Live Search Maps. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, users will be able to see Chris Pendleton, the Bing Maps technical e... |
6 May 2010
07:30 GMT |
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A new Silverlight-based tool from Microsoft is designed to streamline the publishing of audio and video content to the web, while also simplifying additional source-to-distribution-platform delivery scenarios. But the Microsoft Silverlight Rough Cut Editor does not only help content providers cut down on the time it ... |
14 April 2010
07:35 GMT |
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The wait is over for the next iteration of Silverlight, well, almost over. Having already confirmed that it would release Silverlight 4 to web by the end of this week, Microsoft revealed that the final bits would be made available for download this Thursday. While on stage at the official Silverlight 4 launch event i... |
14 April 2010
04:10 GMT |
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Microsoft plans to release the next iteration of Silverlight by the end of this week. The Redmond company has confirmed officially that the RTW deadline for Silverlight 4 was set by the end of this week, in an announcement dedicated to the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4. Eddie Amos, general m... |
12 April 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Silverlight has certainly come a long way since Build 1.0.20816.00 was released on September 4, 2007, and just as sure, Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash has a long way ahead of it, still. The evolution of Silverlight is taking the technology to additional screens, and up next are Broadcom BCM7420- and Int... |
9 April 2010
09:27 GMT |
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A new, free application from Microsoft is designed to streamline access to the resources that the company is offering to IT professionals and developers. The Microsoft Desktop Player is available in two flavors, namely a Cloud application built in Silverlight, or a desktop client that can be downloaded and installed ... |
6 April 2010
04:23 GMT |
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Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform grows continuously with the addition of new features, and the latest step in the service’s evolution is no exception to this rule. Users of the Silverlight-based version of Bing Maps will be able to notice and take advantage of new additions to the platfor... |
31 March 2010
07:40 GMT |
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When it initially said that Silverlight was a cross-browser plug-in, Microsoft meant that it would be running on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. However, the Redmond company’s alternative to Adobe Flash has evolved quite a bit since it was introduced, and a Beta development milestone is now available for Nokia&rsq... |
25 March 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Having expanded both Bing Maps and WorldWide Telescope with Silverlight, it was only natural for Microsoft to bridge the two projects, which even at a conceptual level, belong together. Earlier this week the software giant’s mapping, location and search platform grew with the addition of “a universe&rdqu... |
19 March 2010
09:17 GMT |
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Web analytics are very important to every online service, providing a way for companies to track their visitors' behavior and adjust the services to more user-specific needs. The recently released Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework integrates tracking tools for online, offline and out-of-browser Silverlig... |
18 March 2010
11:42 GMT |
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On Monday at the MIX10 conference, Redmond-based software company Microsoft released a beta version of the Silverlight code for Symbian, a move that was already expected to be made a few weeks ago, two years after Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership in the area. The beta version of the solution is now availa... |
16 March 2010
11:53 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft and Finnish handset vendor Nokia announced two years ago plans to work together on delivering Silverlight to Nokia handsets powered by the Symbian operating system, and it seems that the solution is almost here. A beta version of Silverlight for Symbian is expected to soon be de... |
13 March 2010
03:55 GMT |
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Microsoft made available for download the latest installment of Small Basic in early February 2010, and version 0.8 of the programming language continues to be available at this point in time. The eighth Community Technology Preview of Small Basic enables beginner developers to build simple applications not only for ... |
9 March 2010
06:31 GMT |
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The MIX10 session in mid-March is the place where Microsoft is expected to provide all the necessary info needed for developing applications for the newly introduced Windows Phone 7 OS, and now the company has published some more details on the MIX10 sessions dedicated to the mobile platform. The fresh OS requires fo... |
6 March 2010
04:31 GMT |
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The hologram, technically known as augmented reality, has been nothing but a dream until a few years ago, when a group of developers led by Philip Lamb developed a C-powered library (ARToolKit) able to handle dynamic viewpoints and then redraw a 3D object accordingly. Less than a week ago, on February 24, German .NET... |
2 March 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Just three days are left until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver are kicked off, but NBC Universal and Microsoft have already set in place the online Olympic hub designed to brings fans around the world winter games coverage. NBCOlympics.com on MSN is the result of a collaboration b... |
9 February 2010
08:08 GMT |
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform needed less than two months in the baking oven as a Beta test release. Introduced at the start of December 2009, the Silverlight-based flavor of Bing Maps has now graduated from Beta stage and was released to web. Chris Pendleton, the Bin... |
20 January 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Content providers interested in leveraging Silverlight in tandem with Internet Information Services in order to provide media experiences for customers can now take advantage of an updated development kit for IIS Smooth Streaming. Today, January 15th, 2010, the second beta development milestone of Beta IIS Smooth Str... |
15 January 2010
06:34 GMT |
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When it introduced the evolved version of Streetside with the new Silverlight-based Bing Maps Beta at the start of December 2009, Microsoft promised that it would deliver additional coverage beyond what was initially available. By the end of 2009, the Redmond company started living up to its promise. The Bing Maps Im... |
6 January 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Silverlight-powered Virtual DVDs were announced in the first half of September 2009, an initiative from Tesco, leveraging Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash. At that time, Rob Salter, category director for Entertainment at Tesco, noted that Virtual DVDs were ushering in a new era of digital entertainment. T... |
17 December 2009
05:34 GMT |
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A cocktail of Microsoft technologies is the catalyst for what the company has called the first big refresh of the technology behind Bing Maps in years. By mixing together not just the mapping, search and location platform, but also Photosynth, Silverlight and Seadragon, along with additional technologies from Live La... |
3 December 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Becoming a Martian while never leaving this planet might not have the same appeal or deliver the adrenaline levels that setting an actual foot on the soil of Mars would, but then again, exploring is not what it used to be. And don’t think for a minute that the comfort of an Earth home and exploring the alien, d... |
18 November 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Leave your stakes and your silver bullets at home while visiting landmarks of the latest chapter in the Twilight saga to hit movie screens worldwide, but by all means make sure that you have Microsoft Silverlight in place. At the same time, knowing your way around Bing Maps wouldn’t hurt either. MSN Movies has ... |
17 November 2009
07:36 GMT |
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The next-generation Windows Mobile 7 operating system from Microsoft is shaping up into a very attractive mobile platform. The Redmond-based software giant is already known to plan on enhancing it with great functionality, including over-the-air software updates, better integration with various services, greater user... |
27 October 2009
06:38 GMT |
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