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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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Microsoft Silverlight is probably the last technology that comes to mind as being capable to improve shooting ability in any scenarios. And yet, this perception is bound to change with the introduction of the Winchester Ballistics Calculator. It was by leveraging Silverlight that Winchester Ammunition managed to deve... |
5 October 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has already started work on its next-generation Windows Mobile 7 operating system meant for smartphones, and it seems that it plans on implementing some interesting features in the client, including its Silverlight technology. The company already included Silverlight 3 in its re... |
25 September 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft's Silverlight technology has had quite a busy period lately, considering the fact that the Redmond company has announced recently that it has been included in the newly released to manufacturing Windows Embedded CE 6.9 R3, and that the technology has also been ported to Intel's Moblin platform, th... |
24 September 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Microsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, enhanced with Microsoft Silverlight, which should provide a rich application experience through Silverlight for Windows Embedded user interface (UI) framework. The new release is expected to enable designers and dev... |
23 September 2009
02:16 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Silverlight is the technology powering virtual DVDs, which are planned for availability this fall. Created via a partnership between online retailer Tesco and Microsoft, virtual DVDs are part of an upcoming service positioned as the next generation of home video viewing, according to the two compani... |
9 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download a fresh release of its alternative to Adobe Flash. In this regard, the Redmond-based company introduced earlier this week the second update to the RTW (release to web) version of Silverlight 3. Users that want to keep all apps on their machine up to date are now able to downl... |
4 September 2009
08:10 GMT |
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Microsoft Photosynth has turned one, and judging from the millions of photos uploaded and the billions of FLOPs necessary to integrate the digital images into synths, the service is nothing short of a success. In its first year since release, on August 20, 2008, approximately 16 million photos have been uploaded and ... |
21 August 2009
09:58 GMT |
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The open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux operating systems has reached an important milestone in development, evolving to the first Beta build. Novell is currently offering for download Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1, which is designed to be the equivalent of Silverlight 2 for Windows. Developed as an integral p... |
18 August 2009
10:40 GMT |
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Developers looking to bundle Silverlight and Bing together into their Cloud applications now have the necessary development tools to do so. The Silverlight software development kit for Bing was released to CodePlex on July 27, 2009 and is currently available for download. The SDK is an open-source project offered und... |
28 July 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Developers who need to provide client-side data management for their Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) now have Perst from McObject available. Perst is an open-source project designed to provide devs with an object-oriented embedded database system. Undoubtedly, some developers, especially those that exte... |
13 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced the release of Silverlight 3 for Mac OS X, along with a new version of its Expression design tool. Silverlight 3 is compatible only with Intel-based Macs, and offers better performance, GPU acceleration, desktop tools, and support for higher-quality audio and video. According to the company b... |
13 July 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Looking for a tasty Windows 7 snack? SnackBox might just have a tasty something for you to sink your teeth into. Looking to put together your very own Windows 7 snacks? Then Microsoft's SnackBox is the right place for you to share your creations with the world. But there is no need to limit content to Windows 7 ... |
9 July 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Microsoft is doing much more than simply putting together a Deep Zoom tribute for the late King of Pop. In fact, the Redmond company will be bringing fans worldwide the memorial service for Michael Jackson from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The ceremony will involve a tribute to the Thriller star involving Stevi... |
7 July 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Microsoft has unveiled a tribute page to Michael Jackson on MSN, essentially a Silverlight application built by ShootHill by taking advantage of the DeepZoom capabilities of Silverlight. The main image of the King of Pop, who died on June 25th 2009, is put together using touched up variants of hundreds of pictures fe... |
3 July 2009
08:03 GMT |
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Xbox Live is one of the most important services to Microsoft these days, as it is a major feature for its Xbox 360 platform and generates a lot of profit, thanks to the subscribers that pay almost $50 a year in order to have a Gold membership and enjoy the privileges of playing multiplayer games and other things. Bu... |
2 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A new iteration of the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight is now available for download. The tool went live at the end of the past week on the Microsoft Download Center and is currently up for grabs, delivering a variety of improvements compared to previous releases. Back in mid-February 2009, Microsoft requested fee... |
22 June 2009
10:23 GMT |
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Over 70 million registered users worldwide will be able to enjoy Photobucket's new Visual Search feature, powered by Microsoft's alternative to Flash, Silverlight. In order to evolve the online digital image repository, Photobucket worked with Microsoft and EffectiveUI, indicating that the challenge was to ... |
16 June 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Bing Maps World Tour is a new tool introduced by Microsoft following the rebranding of Live Search Maps to Bing Maps and Virtual Earth to Bing Maps for Enterprise. The tool is designed to allow end users to keep up with the changes introduced to Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform each month. The ... |
9 June 2009
09:54 GMT |
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Microsoft, in collaboration with The New York Times, introduced at the start of May 2009 the Silverlight 2 Kit for the New York Times Open application programming interfaces. The New York Times Silverlight Kit is designed to allow developers to easily take advantage of the services offered for free by the news outlet... |
15 May 2009
04:32 GMT |
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With the latest update introduced to Photosynth, Microsoft has scrapped the now traditional Direct 3D viewer for a Silverlight UX that spans both Windows and Mac OS X. The Redmond-based company indicated that the shift to the new Silverlight experimental viewer was designed to precisely make the service available to ... |
23 April 2009
12:51 GMT |
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An updated version of the Deep Zoom Composer is now available for download from Microsoft. The Redmond company revealed that the refresh was designed to tailor the Deep Zoom Composer to DeepZoomPix. Deep Zoom Composer is a tool meant to allow digital images to be transformed for use with the Deep Zoom feature introdu... |
17 April 2009
12:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has added new features to its storage service in the cloud. The evolution of Windows Live SkyDrive is marked by the release of several updates earlier this week, with a focus on enhancing the management capabilities available to end users. As the new updates to Windows Live SkyDrive are gradually rolled out... |
16 April 2009
07:54 GMT |
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DeepZoomPix is nothing short of a “very tasty” cocktail of Microsoft technologies. Labeled a technology demonstration, DeepZoomPix went live today, April 16, 2009, and is designed to permit users to explore digital images stored in the Cloud in a new way, but also deliver a new model for sharing pictures ... |
16 April 2009
04:13 GMT |
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A Facebook post from March 23 stated that Aaron Woodman, director for Consumer Experiences for Windows Mobile, would be answering questions that users had regarding the future of the company's mobile operating system, yet the answers to the inquiries users issued on the Windows Mobile 6.5 or on the applications ... |
10 April 2009
10:40 GMT |
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If Facebook embraced Adobe's ActionScript, MySpace managed to adopt its direct rival, Microsoft's Silverlight. And while Adobe launched the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, officially supported by Facebook along with PHP and JavaScript, MySpace announced that the MySpace Open Platf... |
31 March 2009
07:06 GMT |
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The latest news on the Web points towards the fact that the next version of the Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system will also integrate the company's Silverlight technology. Along with it, some more rather interesting features might also head towards mobile phone users, and one of these could be Dee... |
24 March 2009
04:58 GMT |
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With the new public release of the .NET RIA Services, Microsoft aims to simplify the process associated with building Rich Internet Applications. The Redmond company has made the March 2009 Preview of the .NET RIA Services available for download at the end of the past week. Essentially, the download is meant to deliv... |
23 March 2009
11:20 GMT |
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Microsoft seems to have plans to integrate its Flash competitor, Silverlight, into the future versions of Windows Mobile. The Redmond company hasn't unveiled yet when it will come to its mobile operating system, although announced Silverlight back in 2007, however the company has confirmed that it should be laun... |
21 March 2009
07:53 GMT |
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It looks like by any measure Silverlight (Silverlight 3 Beta now available) has become a 'mascot' of the Olympic Games. Last year, NBC used Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash to take the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing online. Come next year, Silverlight has already qualified to the 2010 Winter Olymp... |
19 March 2009
10:58 GMT |
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March 18, 2009 will be synonymous with the introduction of the new Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for social websites. March 18 is also the first day of MIX09, the Redmond company's Internet-centric conference in Las Vegas. This year, the Messenger web platform will be showcased in no less than three session... |
17 March 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Smooth Streaming Extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 has debuted into Beta stage this week, and is now available for download in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. The IIS7 extension is designed to allow upgrading a web server to what Microsoft is referring to as Smooth Streaming Servers. Via the Smoot... |
27 February 2009
08:27 GMT |
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Silverlight can now truly live up to Microsoft's vision of delivering a cross-browser, cross-platform solution designed to power rich applications and high-quality, interactive videos, with the arrival of Moonlight 1.0. Moonlight is an open-source implementation of Silverlight for the Linux operating system, whi... |
12 February 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has come out gunning for Adobe, after Mark Garrett, Adobe EVP and CFO claimed that the adoption of the Redmond company's Flash killer was disappointing. Tim Sneath, director of the Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team, denied such a scenario and indicated that Adobe was simply attempting t... |
12 February 2009
07:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has married Online videos with social networking in a new project from MSN Germany. MSN ClipClub, currently in Beta stage, is designed not only to permit users to view and share videos and comments, but also to connect with friends over the content through Windows Live Messenger. The entire MSN ClipClub Bet... |
27 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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A new Silverlight streaming publishing plug-in is available for download. Designed to be integrated seamlessly with Expression Encoder 2, the plug-in is set up to permit users to publish content directly to the Silverlight Streaming service. In this regard, they will be able to enjoy a streamlined publishing process ... |
19 January 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Silverlight is not the sole Microsoft technology to get a spot light in prime time as Barack Obama will be sworn-in as the 44th President of the U.S. Come January 20, 2009, the Redmond company will not only make available online videos of the ceremony live and on demand, but will also be Photosynthing the entire even... |
19 January 2009
06:40 GMT |
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The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States is now but a day away, and Microsoft has more than just a front seat, as in fact it has managed to put its technology at the heart of the event. In this regard, the company informed that the Presidential Inaugural Committee had chosen Silverl... |
19 January 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Silverlight 2 not enough? Well, there is a way to enhance Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer when it comes down to the developing end. The Silverlight Toolkit went live on CodePlex at the end of October 2008, and was updated the past week, with the latest bits up for grabs via the Redmond company's open source ... |
16 December 2008
07:17 GMT |
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The Experimental Silverlight Viewer is an integral part of the evolution of Microsoft Live Labs' Photosynth, along with bug fixes and the advancements introduced to the synther technology. In this context, the Redmond company delivered an experimental cross-platform Silverlight viewer the past week, designed to ... |
15 December 2008
11:40 GMT |
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With the launch of Silverlight 2 for Windows and Mac OS X, Microsoft applauded its alternative to Adobe Flash for the fast pace of adoption, indicating that the technology had been deployed on over one in four machines worldwide. With room to grow, Silverlight is gaining more and more traction, and an illustrative ex... |
4 December 2008
10:52 GMT |
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As early as the the celebration of the second anniversary of the Microsoft and Novell partnership inked back in November 2006, the Redmond company announced the delivery of the first Beta of Moonlight. As an integral part of the Linux and Windows interoperability agreement, Novell took it upon itself to extend Silver... |
2 December 2008
14:31 GMT |
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After it delivered the Deep Zoom Composer version tailored to Silverlight 2 in mid-October 2008, Microsoft is now offering for download a new release of the tool. The latest Deep Zoom Composer release is focused on under-the-hood optimizations, as well as bug fixes and a boost in usability, but at the same time users... |
25 November 2008
13:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has already taken Silverlight to version 2, but only for Windows and Mac OS X platforms. When it comes to the Linux operating system, Silverlight compatibility is not Microsoft’s responsibility, as the project was adopted by Novell. And, while on Windows and Mac OS Silverlight is at version 2, with v3... |
19 November 2008
10:40 GMT |
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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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