Microsoft Silverlight 3 beta showcased
US based software giant Microsoft has showcased the first beta of their upcoming Silverlight 3 technology.
This would be the first version of Silverlight which would run outside the web browser as well.
Microsoft said that with this latest edition, developers would be able to use threads within Silverlight apps to [...]
Microsoft starts talking about Silverlight 3
Microsoft is likely to talk about their upcoming update to Silverlight technology at the upcoming Mix09 conference in Las Vegas this week.
Microsoft Silverlight 3 could be a topic of discussion at this event along with Visual Studio 2010 IDE, the Azure Services Platform for cloud computing and Expression Web.
Market [...]
Mozilla donates for Ogg development
Makers of Firefox web browser, Mozilla has made a donation of $100,000 to help in the development of open standards-based technology OGG for web video.
They are collaborating with the Wikimedia Foundation on this venture.
Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight are the two proprietary technologies which exist in this space.
Mozilla [...]
Presidential Inaugural to be streamed using Microsoft Silverlight
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are to be sworn in and deliver inauguration speeches next Tuesday in Washington DC.
These events would be broadcast online on the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s Web site.
The technology to be used for this broadcast would be Microsoft Silverlight. [...]
Microsoft makes available updated tools for Windows Azure
Software giant Microsoft has now released an updated Windows Azure software development kit. The company also has now released Azure tools for Visual Studio.
Microsoft said that these updated tools offer improved support for Visual Studio in addition to performance improvements.
They have also fixed a couple of bugs [...]
Beta version of Moonlight coming up
Microsoft and Novell are all set to announce the beta version of Moonlight.
Moonlight is the Linux’s implementation of Microsoft Silverlight technology.
The two companies are also going to announce the general release of Advanced Management Pack for SuSe Linux Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Microsoft and Novell announced [...]
MLB.com goes back to Adobe Flash
MLB.com has announced that they are switching from Microsoft Silverlight to Adobe Flash.
Microsoft often highlighted Major League Baseball’s online unit as one of their biggest customers of Silverlight.
MLB Advanced Media would now be using Adobe Flash technology for their live and on-demand video starting next year.
Microsoft Vice President Scott Guthrie [...]
Adobe Systems to launch fully functional Flash for mobile devices
Adobe has been making available a light edition of Adobe Flash for mobile devices.
However as the technology is advancing and people now want full web on their mobile devices, the company is working on bringing the fully functional Adobe Flash technology on mobile devices.
Adobe Chief Technology [...]
Microsoft wants Silverlight on Apple iPhone and Google G1
Market sources are hinting that Microsoft is working hard on developing mobile versions of their Silverlight technology that can run on Apple iPhone and Google Android devices.
Getting it to the iPhone might be complicated as Apple makes the final decision. Apple has already rejected the idea of [...]
Microsoft launches Web Application Installer
Software giant Microsoft has launched Web Application Installer which is designed to compliment their existing product named Web Platform Installer.
Web Platform Installer enables a server administrator to install and configure entire web platform stack.
It can install products like .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, IIS7.0 and Extensions, IIS FastCGI, Visual Web Developer 2008, [...]
