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Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role

By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has defended the role of Silverlight in the HTML 5 era. Arguing that it is natural for HTML to acquire some of the features previously provided by plug-ins – “because some of these features are so pervasive on the web that they are seen

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Open season for patent litigation makes case for reform

By tim, on August 31st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

It seems to be open season for software patent litigation. Oracle is suing Google over its use of Java in Android. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing is suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and others – the Wall Street Journal has an illustrated discussion of the patents involved here. Let’s not forget that

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Visual Studio LightSwitch – model-driven architecture for the mainstream?

By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I had a chat with Jay Schmelzer and Doug Seven from the Visual Studio LightSwitch team. I asked about the release date – no news yet.

What else? Well, Schmelzer and Seven had read my earlier blog post so we discussed some of the things I speculated about. Windows Phone 7? Won’t be in

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Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch

By tim, on August 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced a new edition of Visual Studio called LightSwitch, now available in beta, and it is among the most interesting development tools I’ve seen. That does not mean it will succeed; if anything it is too radical and might fail for that reason, though it deserves better. Here’s some of the things

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What users want in Windows 8

By tim, on August 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

A number of blogs are running a coordinated poll on what users would most like to see in the next version of Windows. The results so far are unsurprising but still worth repeating, since there is a good chance that they differ from Microsoft’s priorities.

Note that users are less concerned about

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Dynamic language slowdown at Microsoft?

By tim, on August 7th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Jimmy Schementi, until recently a Program Manager at Microsoft working on IronRuby, has posted about why he is leaving the company; and in doing so answers a question I posed a few months back, Why F# rather than IronPython in Visual Studio 2010?

When my manager asked me, “what else would you want to

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Internet Explorer 9 Preview gets to 95% on Acid 3

By tim, on August 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released the fourth platform preview for Internet Explorer 9, which you can download here. This is the last preview before the beta release, expected in September.

When IE9 was first previewed, back in March, it scored only 55% on the Acid3 standards test – well ahead of IE8 which scores around 20%,

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Apple iPad replacing PCs as well as paper?

By tim, on August 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Now here’s an article to strike fear into Microsoft. Stuart Sumner reports on iPad trials at the BBC and in the Army. The BBC’s CIO John Linwood says:

We’re seeding the organisation [with the devices]. We put some iPads into production and some into management and other roles to see if people would be

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Microsoft and the NHS: what went wrong?

By tim, on August 3rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft UK’s John Coulthard, Senior Director Healthcare and Life Sciences, has posted a comment on the decision by the NHS not to renew its EWA (Enterprise Wide Agreement) with Microsoft. His summary:

The bottom line is the NHS benefited from the productivity gains delivered through a suite of Microsoft software worth in excess of

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