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Silverlight on the iPhone? The wait may be over…
Given the recent rumor that Steve Ballmer is to present at Apple’s upcoming WWDC 2010 Keynote, I thought it was time to revisit the possibility of Silverlight on the iPhone. I initially suggested the idea back in December after having just attended PDC ’09. At that time, I had the privilege to sit down with Scott Guthrie [...]
Continue reading...Bing to replace Google as Default Search Engine on iPhone?
20. January 2010
BusinessWeek reported today that Apple and Microsoft are currently in negotiations to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing.com. The talks have reportedly been underway for weeks. The increasing rivalry between Google and Apple is noted as one of the primary reasons behind the talks. “Apple and Google know [...]
Continue reading...Deja-Moonlight…Moonlight 2 arrives
18. December 2009
Hot on the heels of recently announced Silverlight 4 beta, Novell released Moonlight 2, the latest version of its open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux. It also announced broader licensing terms for Moonlight, allowing users to run Moonlight on non-Novell Linux distributions. Despite the name, Moonlight 2 actually includes support for Silverlight 2 and some [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight coming to iPhone?
4. December 2009
While Microsoft officials continue to remain mum on the subject of official Silverlight support for the iPhone, they have already proven that Silverlight-based media can be delivered to iPhones via some server-side magic. At PDC 09, Scott Guthrie announced IIS media streaming support for the iPhone which you can preview from an iPhone by visiting: [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight 4 steals the show at day 2 of PDC 2009
18. November 2009
Day 2 of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference was arguably all about Silverlight 4. Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform, highlighted the enhancements coming in Silverlight 4 including: Webcam and microphone input support Printing support Rich Text and HTML Support Clipboard access Native right-click and mousewheel support There were also numerous developer-centric [...]
Continue reading...Bing Maps meets Silverlight DeepZoom
16. November 2009
Last week the Bing Maps team released version 1.0 of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control! This is a replacement for the previous Virtual Earth Javascript control and provides a great DeepZoom experience for using the mapping platform. Here is a list of some of the features the control provides: Built on Silverlight 3 Out of [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight 3 coming July 10
2. June 2009
Microsoft stuck to their very aggressive release schedule with the Silverlight product by announcing that Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 family of designer tools would be released July 10. Silverlight 3 adds 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight. Microsoft released the first and only beta of Silverlight [...]
Continue reading...Announcing Microsoft “Azurelight”
14. April 2009
ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley reported today on the announcement of a new Microsoft cloud-based product-support service codenamed “Azurelight.” The report comes from Microsoft Architect Aleksey Savateyev who blogged about the reference application he is developing which will use not only Azure and Silverlight (as the name implies), but also Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight Plugin for WordPress Released
31. March 2009
On Saturday, Tim Heuer, Program Manager for Microsoft Silverlight, blogged about the Silverlight for WordPress plugin he developed based on a similar plugin. Heuer, who personally does not use WordPress, decided to write the plugin because his wife uses it for her blog and he decided he would try to find out a little bit [...]
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27. May 2010
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