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• On Expectations, PDC, Silverlight, and HTML 5

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 01 2010, 07:05 PM

  Filed under: WPF, Community, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, PDC 2010

  There has been a lot of commentary over the last few days about the PDC-Silverlight-HTML5 debacle , whether it is dead or not, etc. I posted to Twitter yesterday that I had an epiphany about why the strategy was what it was. But in talking to some of
  

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• PDC 2008, Here I Come! (and a Caption Contest)

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 25 2008, 12:00 PM

  Filed under: PDC 2003, PDC 2005, Live Mesh, Windows 7, .NET 4.0, PDC 2008

  At practically the last minute, I was invited to a briefing at PDC on Windows 7. As exciting as it all sounded, I wasn’t planning on attending at all… but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to be one of the first to get a guided tour the hotly-anticipated
  

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• Microsoft Aims To Make .NET Sexy Again

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 25 2008, 12:34 AM

  Filed under: .NET 4.0

  Microsoft has been working hard to make their brands attractive. Silverlight and Surface are prime examples of the stylistic approach they have been trying to achieve. Well, after 8 years, the .NET brand is getting a makeover too. Frankly, it’s about
  

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