The phone is here as well as the jury verdict. It is a good device. I just got the new phone this week, and here are the 10 things I like about it: Metro is a good UX paradigm, it is just a nice design Email and Facebook interfaces are...

November brought a lot of change to my life: After 5 years in the Silverlight team (and a short stint dealing with cloud hosting that you will hear about in early 2011) I joined the Office engineering team, helping the team to deliver some great experiences...

last week Microsoft launched the Silverlight PivotViewer control that makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative and fun. The PivotViewer is a sibling of the Microsoft Pivot WPF application that enables...

Ball Watch USA and Microsoft are teaming up to give you a reason to try the new Expression Studio 4 to build one of the Ball watches in Silverlight 4 like this. You can win one of the watches! Ball Watch Company has a line of beautiful railroad-inspired...

Earlier this week, the Bing team showed a complete revamp of Bing’s Webmaster tools at SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle . The Bing Webmaster team chose to focus on three key areas of interest to webmasters: Crawl, Index, and Traffic. Each area...

As of yesterday, developers can download the Bing Map App SDK and start building, testing and submitting applications to Bing Maps to be featured in the gallery. To access the Bing Map App SDK, login to Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft...

Yesterday, at Internet Week New York we launched Expression Studio 4 . This new version is shipping just 10 months after Expression Studio 3 and includes support for Silverlight 4, the .NET Framework 4, and interoperability with Visual Studio 2010 and...

As discussed at PDC last year, Microsoft is working with Nokia to make Silverlight available for Nokia’s phones. Starting this week you can download the Silverlight for Symbian beta version runtime and tools from the Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian...

We all want our applications and Web sites to be effective. How does one know that the application is effective? How does one gather information about how the application is being used and interacted with? Understanding this requires instrumentation...

Many businesses are relying on Microsoft Silverlight and until few month ago, Microsoft did not have a clear support policy for Silverlight, well now we have it. Silverlight is unique compared to other products in the sense it is serviced through new...

One of our favorite Vendors, Archetype ( http://www.archetype-inc.com ) created this great Silverlight based Haloween greeting card. You can carve your own pumpkin and send to your friends. Try it, it is great (and is hosted on Azure ): http://halloween...

just wanted to update you that the redesign of http://surface.com is now complete, offering a better experience for customers and partners. What you’ll find: Improved layout and navigation with lots of Silverlight based content Showcase of top...

Andy Yeckel and Umesh Patel own this. Try it out. It has samples ( http://www.silverlighttoys.com/Samples.aspx ) and Tutorials ( http://www.silverlighttoys.com/Tutorials.aspx ) Sample code never hurts. Barak

Our dear friends in Plexipixel have created a nice Silverlight based game on Facebook. It is called Roshamboom! ( http://apps.facebook.com/roshamboom ). Roshamboom! is inspired by David C. Lovelace’s extreme rock-paper-scissors concept called RPS-101...

The Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and Sample code is now published on Microsoft’s Download Center . This paper provides an insight into the mechanism of authoring and designing a proper installation experience for Silverlight applications...

The Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit (SACK) is now available for download . The SACK is targeting designers and ad creation agencies and discusses several aspects of creating ads using Silverlight. Step-by-step instructions are provided throughout...

This week at MIX we revealed a beta version of Silverlight 3. This version addresses many asks we heard from you from your Silverlight 2 experience. There are tons of new things (in a package simiar in size): Media Smooth streamign suppot...

In my last business trip I had the pleasure to meet the leaders of a small company that is betting big on Silverlight. Shidonni is a collaborative that is targeting kids between the ages of 4-8 (way lower than other social networking sites) and is...

The year had just began and it is time to share some electronic greeting cards the design agencies we work with created, please share with your freinds and family.

Here it is: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/x-files/default.htm

As announced earlier this week in TechEd, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available today. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has many new features and enhancement over beta 1. These include the following: · UI Framework : Beta 2 includes improvements in animation support...

A team of trail blaziers from MSN released last week the new MSN toolbar. This is the first commercial native Win32 application that uses Silverlight as its rendering engine. The chose Silverlight because of two reasons: Small memory footprint ...

If you recall, until now when you installed Silverlight using the SDK Silverlight.js file, you could refresh the IE to view the content but needed to restart Firefox and Safari. Well, thanks to Piotr from our setup team, things have changed dramatically...

Video is becoming more and more relevant format to convey information these days. Microsoft released today a new beta video portal that is a single repository of videos that Microsoft creates for various purposes (marketing, education, training and more...

At MIX we released an update to the Tafiti projects that integrates more Windows Live services in it (specifically, presence and P2P messenger APIs that allow one to share search favorites with buddies). You can find the new Tafiti site here: http://tafiti...