Bob Muglia has provided some updates on his comments made at the PDC last week. Some people misinterpreted his comments to mean that we were abandoning SIlverlight. Clearly this is not correct. The full post can be read here. http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/

Yesterday we published the final sessions which will be delivered at Mix10 in Las Vegas in a weeks time. These will provide lots of details about our Silverlight and XNA development platforms for Windows Phone 7. You can check all these out at the live site here . The event is almost full. If you are...

It amazing that we are now (just) less that 100 days to the Olympic days. The new, interactive Silverlight player was recently launched on http://www.nbcolympics.com so its worth going there to see what is being planned by NBC. The site is going to broadcast the event in full HD using silverlight and...

I have just been checking out the latest Photosynth project on the NASA site. If you have kids, they are going to love this. You are able to zoom into a number of space stations, pan around and take a walking tour. This is all driven by silverlight and all works pretty smoothly and their is a huge amount...

Laurence in the team published a blog this week which provide a lot of great advise for how you can build the best Silverlight installation experience for your website. This is based on quite a bit of research that was carried out during a number of large on-line events, the last one being the US “March...

Roger in the team just posted about the work he has been doing behind the scenes for the March Madness On Demand project with CBSSports . While there is a lots of great content that the viewers can see live, to ensure the correct level of quality for the audience, in the background you need an amazing...

Nice to see that Silverlight is being used to stream live webcasts for the Inauguration. It started with the live stream of President-elect Barack Obama’s speaking in Baltimore’s War Memorial Plaza . Its great to see that so many sites are now starting to use Silverlight for high demand live streaming...

Silverlight 2 shipped today. Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich media experiences and .NET (Rich Internet Applications) within the browser. Its also pretty small in size ( ~4.6MB) and takes only a few seconds to install on a machine that doesn't already have it. Finally...

Busy day. A new open source project “Eclipse Tools for Silverlight” - http://www.eclipse4sl.org/ has just been announced. Full details can be found here. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx . This will bring the Silverlight RIA development experience to Eclipse...

In light of the rapid adoption of the WPF and the continuous requests from partners and customers, yesterday the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) team release the third preliminary version of the “WPF Application Quality Guide”. This third release prelim release contains the...

Keith Combs placed a very cool screencast on EDGE which shows a WorldWide Telescope application from Microsoft Research.  WorldWide Telescope - video demo and information Stars, Constellations, galaxies are all there. Very cool. You can check this out at the following location .  The full story...

The .NET evangelism team just released a revision of the .NET 3.5 SP1 + Enhancements Training Kit, updated to reflect the changes in .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1. The May Preview release includes updated hands-on-labs as well as new presentations. The following features had their labs updated in this iteration...