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Investment in IE is NOT a Stop-Gap
There was one section of the story that got on ZDNet and CNet that I think is worth a response. "Longhorn isn't going to be delivered in the timeframe Microsoft originally expected, and users probably can't wait that long for a stabilized browser. So Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:46 PM by DMassy | 23 Comments

Why wait for Avalon?
Frank Hillman responded to my previous post of Is XAML a big deal? and asks Why wait for avalon? especially when there are some great tools and libraries available today. That's a great question. In short I don't think you should wait. If you need to Read More...

Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 11:00 AM by DMassy | 3 Comments

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Is XAML a big deal?
Interesting argument that XAML isn't a big deal at http://weslandia.org/blog/archive/2004/04/02/156.aspx . Am I the only person getting confused on who the people are behind some of the blogs? How about an “About me“ link on the page so I'll Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:15 PM by DMassy | 6 Comments

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XAML by itself is not that interesting!
Microsoft should drop XAML like a .... Rory Blythe makes a great post and people respond. XAML is just markup and although incredibly important to allow tools to declaratively put Content, UI and Media together it really isn't that interesting by itself. Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:12 AM by DMassy | 0 Comments

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Avalon != XAML
XAML is not Avalon and Avalon is not XAML. I think we've not been making this entirely clear although it has definitely been implied by Don Box, Chris Anderson and others. See the Holiday MSDN TV show to see some of this. However there seems to be a little Read More...

Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 11:26 AM by DMassy | 4 Comments

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Why Longhorn and Avalon?
I'm excited about Longhorn and Avalon in particular as that is what I'm working on. I thought as one of my first posts here I'd talk about the computer experience I personally see Avalon and Longhorn enabling. I don't know if anyone else out there watches Read More...

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 5:45 PM by DMassy | 1 Comments

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Welcome
Welcome to my blog. I work as a Technical Evangelist on Longhorn here at Microsoft specialising in the new presentation subsystem known as Avalon. I plan to post occasionally here about Longhorn and although I can't promise to post daily I will try to Read More...

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 3:23 PM by DMassy | 0 Comments

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