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

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. You HAVE to read his blog post on this....

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). You can search and embedd videos in your blog...

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.mslivelabs.com/Default.aspx . This site shows...

With some much content available in a video form, and the popularity of the video medium with both consumers and enterprise customers, we identified a need to consolidate the vast amount of video content we have in our network and make it available (and searchable, and embeddeble) to our customers. The...

We have been working with our freinds in FOX to start a serier of hosting movie mini-sites that are powered by Silverlight. Jumper (starting playing in US theaters today) is the first one. The actual content is hosted on our beloved Silverligth Streaming service (it is Valentine's day today afterall...

What would be a better way of sharing your love other than using a free Silverlight customizable Valentine's day card? The Silverlight and Windows Live teams collaborated on creating such a card as can be experienced here: Note that the card was implemented in a way that allows universal use...

In December we released the source code for " Tafiti ". A search visualization app that uses Live Search in the background and Silverlight on the front end to render search results in a compelling way. Tafiti is the first example we had for a dynamic application that renders temporal service data using...

During the weekend and with the help of some Wunderman/VML people and Tiffany our web lady, we managed to retrofit the holiday greeting card as a Happy New Year card. It is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/HappyNewYear2008/default.html . Please share it with your freinds.

During my last visit to Israel I had the pleasure of meeting an interesting company that is called Gizmox. Gizmox had developed an application UI framework that bridges veteran practices of building enterprise applications (using WinForms) with web 2.0 style application delivery (AJAX style). The...

I spent the last month traveling, visiting the UK and my home country, Israel. Sun was abundant and thus my spirit is high. Beyond some vacation and very close ancounters with Alpakas and Lamas (images will follow) I had the pleasure to meet some design firms that are already doing great things with...

The Podium ’08 -- ( http://election.msn.com/podium08.aspx ) is Live on the MSN US Election Portal. This is just the first of many innovations MSN (one of the largest online sited in the world) will deliver on Silverlight. I had the pleasure of working with the MSN team on this and although...

Microsoft.com today shipped is second brand campaign that is based on Silverlight. This time the Microsoft Surface team campaign is powered by Silverlight. Hurry up and view this over the weekend here: http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Once it expires I will update the blog with an...

This week Microsot revealed Microsoft Surface . A new computer platform that is based on Windows Vista and WPF that enables users to grab data with their hands, interact with physical objects that are positioned on the surface using natual gestures and touch. You may ask, what is the connection with...

(MIX 2007, Las Vegas) It was a busy day yesterday (Apr 30). With the exciting keyote by Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie (see the video here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/video.aspx ) and with 5 new external web sites that needed to go online ( http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight , www.silverlight...

We got a lot of positive feedback on the Silverlight brand and wanted to give something back to our customers. Anyone who likes the brand can enjoy an exciting Silverlight wallpaper available to download from the download page of the Microsoft Silverlight web site. For those of our customers who...

As many of you already noticed, the official name for "WPF/E" is out there, it is Microsoft Silverlight . We are very happy to have something that is easy to remember like Silverlight instead the former code name. Note that if you have the Feb CTP version of Silverlight ( Windows or Mac ) installed,...

A new beta of the develoepr toolbar for Internet Explorer was released on Jan 12 2007. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page....