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01 May 2007

MIX07 - Day 1 - Keynote notes.

  • Expression Studio was just announced as being public today by Ray Ozzie. Silverlight story was told, and overall the kids are happy so far (few cheers).
  • Windows Live Platform Group are going to make some announcements tomorrow as well.
  • Silverlight + Photosynth Zoom capabilities are also now in the room.
  • Silverlight Streaming announced. It's a companion services to Silverlight, and taps into Microsoft online cloud. Silverlight will be picking up the tab in empowering users to post Silverlight centric content onto Microsoft servers to then be streamed out to the world-wide-web (aka interweb).
  • Ray Ozzie's keywords "Experience First" which is the key ingredient behind our new toys.
  • Silverlight now has a x-platform version of the .NET framework and installed under 20 secs (install time).
  • There is now a Silverlight preview version on the web with both design and developer tools made available! (which is uber cool).
  • 700,000 sites today have ASP.NET AJAX keeping the RIA concept flowing.
  • Silverlight media can stream to XBOX 360.
  • Our streaming service is 3-4 times cheaper then any other on the market today.
  • More later...
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# DotNetKicks.com said:

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30 April 07 at 2:00 PM
# Steven Nagy said:

Any chance you'll post the link for the Silverlight tools?

30 April 07 at 6:04 PM

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About scbarnes

Scott Barnes currently is a Rich Platform Product Manager (WPF & Silverlight). He has been working with Adobe/Macromedia technology for the past 10 years with a main focus specifically on Internet Applications (aka. RIA, Rich Client Technology etc).

Scott first started out as a graphic designer in the late 90’s and over the years developed a passion for programmatic art (Designer + Developer mind). He recently has branched out further into 3D modelling and animation making full use of both his designer + developer mindset.

"..The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man..." - George Bernard Shaw
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