<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Software &amp; Services Bret Grinslade : Windows 7</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/archive/tags/Windows+7/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Windows 7</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Vista and Windows XP Upgrade to Windows 7</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/archive/2009/03/12/vista-and-windows-xp-upgrade-to-windows-7.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9471868</guid><dc:creator>bretgrinslade</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/comments/9471868.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9471868</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9471868</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;I am definitely not an expert on Windows 7.&amp;nbsp; I have been using the beta and it is working well for me.&amp;nbsp; I noticed this post from a several weeks ago about the upgrade thinking.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/upgrading-to-windows-7-what-xp-and-vista-users-need-to-know.ars" target=_blank mce_href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/upgrading-to-windows-7-what-xp-and-vista-users-need-to-know.ars"&gt;Ars Techinca: Upgrading to Windows 7: what XP and Vista users need to know&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;On a related note, I have been using more and more ClickOnce apps.&amp;nbsp; It is really great when app deployment just works. I think we all appreciate that.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;All of this got me thinking about Silverlight. As I have posted before, we are actively developing much of our new UI in Silverlight. With &lt;A href="http://2009.visitmix.com/" target=_blank mce_href="http://2009.visitmix.com/"&gt;MIX09&lt;/A&gt; just around the corner there are a lot of good resources popping up on Silverlight.&amp;nbsp; Check out the Robert Hess &lt;A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Brad-Abrams-Silverlight-30-for-Great-Business-Apps/" target=_blank mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Brad-Abrams-Silverlight-30-for-Great-Business-Apps/"&gt;interview of Brad Abrams on Silverligth 3.0&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9471868" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/archive/tags/Windows+7/default.aspx">Windows 7</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/bretgrinslade/archive/tags/Deployment/default.aspx">Deployment</category></item></channel></rss>