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Happy New 2009
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. Read More...
View a sneak peak into the X-Files trailer with Silverlight
Here it is: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/x-files/default.htm Read More...
Installing Silverlight became much easier OR Piotr is a hero
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. Read More...
New Microsoft.com video portal available
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). Read More...
Tafiti is now powered by more Windows Live services
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 Read More...
The Microsoft Video Portal will soon be heading your way
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 Read More...
Jumper movie trailer site is available in Silverlight. More to come.
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 Read More...
Share your love for Valentine's day with Silverlight
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 Read More...
We released "Tafiti" Search Visualization (w/source code)
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 Read More...
Happy New Year from the Silverlight team
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 Read More...
Gizmox and bridging the gap between Windows Forms developmnent and Silverlight/Ajax style applications
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 Read More...
Happy Holidays
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 Read More...
MSN delivers Election Central with Silverlight
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 Read More...
On the Surface
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 Read More...
Under the Surface
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 Read More...
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