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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

10:15am: That’s a wrap folks! Thanks for joining me for what turned out to be an exhausting experience ;). 10:12am: “We ourselves are betting on our own platform with our own apps. You are the first ones that are going to have access to our Azure SDK

Today, Valleywag tried to string two separate events and some made-up facts together to spin the yarn that NBC was not happy with the performance of Silverlight on NBCOlympics.com, and dumped the technology for Flash for their new NFL streaming site.

I've been saying this for a long time: The tech industry (and the financial markets associated with the tech industry) has continually underestimated Microsoft at its own peril. At MIX 08 today, Ray Ozzie emerged from his undisclosed location to show

I kind of had a feeling that Silverlight would be coming to Mobile Devices soon... I just didn't realize it wouldn't come on Windows Mobile first. News.com has the scoop : Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich

Silverlight QuickStart Using Microsoft Expression Blend 2 is live now. It is similar to the the Silverlight 1.0 Beta QuickStart except that it focuses on using the designer tool Microsoft Expression Blend 2 to create Silverlight graphics and UI rather

Vincent Vergonjeanne just posted BubbleFactory game written with Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. You can play with it at http://cosmik.members.winisp.net/BubbleFactory/ . And if you are really good at this game, you can get yourself in its scoreboard

Today, Microsoft completely changed the web development game , and chances are, you didn't even know it. If you STILL don't think Microsoft "gets it" after today's announcements, you're probably so ensconced in your tech-religious beliefs that there isn

I thought Microsoft was going to wait until MIX 07 to announce some of this stuff, but chose the National Association of Broadcasters instead to show off Microsoft Silverlight, formerly "WPF/E". DevDiv VP "Soma" Somasegar had this to say : As I mentioned