We've just released the Silverlight Toolkit via Codeplex . The release will include the following additions to our toolkit story: TreeView AutoCompleteBox DockPanel WraPanel Label Expander HeaderedItemControl HeaderedContentControl NumericUpDown ViewBox...

Ben just posted some interesting stats on our efforts with the NBC Olympics site: During the 17 days of the games, the site had 51.9 million unique visitors (106% more than Athens and Torino combined) 1.3 billion page views 75.5 million video streams...

We've got IIS7 Smooth Streaming in play and Akamai have put together a demo site called SmoothHD.com All I can say is "wow" in terms of quality. I always knew Silverlight could pull itself together for HD video online, but it's truly amazing...

Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need of a refresh to suit our future product positioning (I've been staring at this for a few weeks now and it's totally grown on me). Why did we do it? We...

I just attended the Seattle Chapter of Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Tonight the topic was "UX lessons from game design". It was an awesome event and you can catch the video later this week. What struck me as really great about this...

Adam & I have been talking to Julian Frelat from InnoveWare Solutions , and we've been both extremely impressed by QuakeLight - a Silverlight port of id Software's Quake. This was a few days ago, and Julian the other night sent me a link to the demo...

The folks in Japan, 2ndFactory have done an amazing amount of work with Deep Zoom. The project title was JellyFish and it's been hot topic here at Redmond. I can't tell you how many times internal people have asked me "when's it coming out.."...

I'm done, I'm handing in my Apple iPhone badge and tacking back my Samsung BlackJack II. The reasons are: Battery life. It's beyond frustrating how low the battery is, I'm constantly in meetings and hardly at my desk most days. Having a phone that can...

I deeply regret ever engaging anyone in this twitter dust off, mainly because it was just stupid :) No excuses, just stupid. I've gotten a lot of positive emails about how well I held my composure and how folks thought Michael was in poor form. ...

To celebrate the Silverlight 2 launch, I've posted just a quick Silverlight application that has home made fireworks in it.. http://www.spidaweb.com/ Click on the screen to create more explosions..well kind of... :)

Note : Michael Arrington has updated and made changes to the original article which removes the below quote sentence in bold. This for me was the part that I felt he overstepped the line on. It's good to see Michael regain composure and do the appropriate...

If you've watched Entourage you may chuckle. The point of this post is simply that I'm silent for a reason, I'm busy, really busy (PDC is coming so behind the scenes work needs to be done). That being said, I had lunch with Glenn Block today and he's...

I was roaming the hallways early today and Michael Bach (Product Manager for Web Platform) was grinning like a he was up to no good. Given we're all working hard on the various efforts required for PDC , Silverlight RC0 etc I was wondering what he could...