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• When Silverlight 2 Releases, Will You be Ready?

  Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been out since June 6th and the number of sites that have taken advantage of the go-live license has taken off. In addition there are probably hundreds of sites that have been thrown together as little samples or test sites that Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 1:48 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Wow! Olympic Swimming

  Okay, I work for Microsoft on Silverlight and specifically run the http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight site among other things. This was a big weekend for us since NBC decided to use Silverlight to do their US coverage of the Olympics online. But with Read More... Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:04 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments

• Want to learn what this Silverlight thing is all about?

  I've had the opportunity to talk to quite a few Web developers at conferences and so forth, and the good news is pretty much everyone has heard of Silverlight. The bad news is that quite a few haven't reached the point of actually playing with it yet. Read More... Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 10:55 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Washing Machine Fun

  I just got back from vacation and right before I left my washing machine broke down. It wouldn't pump the water out of the tub (it was doing a constant beeping...and then when I unplugged it, let it set for 90 seconds and then plugged it back in, the Read More... Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 8:40 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Silverlight 1.1 Developer Reference Poster

  I had the opportunity during Mix07 to hand out posters that map out the capabilities and classes that are available in Silverlight 1.1 . They were pretty popular so I think I handed out about 1200 to the audience of 2200 at Mix. A number of people asked Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:42 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• "WPF/E" is now Silverlight!

  Tonight we announced the official name of wpfe....Microsoft Silverlight! This is the beginning of a bunch of work my team has been doing which begins tonight at NAB 2007 and culminates with a plethora of announcements and technical information that will Read More... Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:31 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments

• Ode to the Progress Bar

  I'm building the Virtual Machines for a number of the Hands On Labs that will be available at MIX and at TechEd. I had not worked much with Virtual PC before and obviously when you are running two copies of Vista on your machine simultaneously (and VStudio Read More... Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 10:20 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Microsoft and the AJAX Community

  Scott announced that Microsoft joined the OpenAJAX Alliance today. I think this does a lot for Microsoft and for the AJAX community. We are certainly striving to be a big player in making AJAX an easy to use platform both for developers and end users, Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:37 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• How to test your Web site w/ IE6 while running IE7

  Pete put a VPC up awhile back, but the image does have a timebomb. The first timebomb was set to go off on 4/1/07 so an update has been put up so that you can test your Web apps w/ IE6 . Pete deserves all the credit in the world for getting this up for Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:29 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• MIX 07 - It's coming!

  One of the cooler things about my relatively new position here on the Web Platform and Tools Marketing Team is that I'm deeply involved in the planning for a number of upcoming conferences. One of these, that I had not been previously involved in is Mix07 Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 5:16 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Is it just me?

  Is it just me or has this year's daylight savings seemed to effect people more than others? Maybe because of a combination of some recent travel, some late nights/early mornings working on some big events, a number of extended family members experiencing Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 4:58 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Emerson College Musical Theatre Audition

  Audition #2 in the ongoing effort for my daughter Katie to get into a top notch Musical Theatre program. Last weekend it was Emerson College in Boston. This has always been at the top of my daughter's list, partially because last summer she met someone Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:42 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Carnegie Mellon Musical Theatre

  My oldest daughter, Katie, is a senior in high school and therefore is applying to various colleges across the country. She is a pretty talented actor, singer and dancer so she is trying to get into a first rate theatre program, and in particular is trying Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:25 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Air bags + basketballs

  My wife was in an accident last night. Someone turned left on a two lane road right in front of her. She hit the back end of their car at a high enough speed that the air bags deployed. She was in the car with three kids (two of ours and one carpooler). Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:03 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments

• Photosynth

  This is very cool. If for some reason you haven't heard of Photosynth yet, you have to check it out . There was a James Bond movie many years ago where in the movie they had a picture of a freighter of some sort that was linked to the evil doings of one Read More... Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:13 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments