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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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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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Ten years of Microsoft .NET – but what about the next ten?

By tim, on July 6th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Technology products have many birthdays – do you count from first announcement, or release to manufacturing, or general availability? Still, this week is a significant one for Microsoft .NET and the C# language, which was first unveiled to the world in detail at Tech-Ed Europe on July 7th, 2000. The timing was odd; July

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PivotViewer comes to SilverLight – data as visual collections

By tim, on June 30th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released a PivotViewer control for Silverlight. Data visualisation is a key business reason to use Silverlight or Flash rather than HTML and JavaScript for an application, so it is a significant release. But what does it do?

PivotViewer is the latest tool to come out of the Microsoft Live Labs Pivot project.

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Why we love to hate Microsoft

By tim, on June 28th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Mary Branscombe has an excellent ZDNet post on Why do we (love to) hate Microsoft, and asks:

What would Microsoft need to do and say to you for you to be happy to call yourself a fan?

In part she’s reacting to Frank Shaw’s Microsoft by the Numbers in which he highlights the success

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Native code interop in Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight

By tim, on June 11th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The latest versions of Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight both allow access to native code, but with limitations. The two platforms take a different approach though – here is a quick comparison.

Native code access in AIR

The new version 2.0 of Adobe AIR is just about done. The runtime is available now (as

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Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie at All things Digital – a poor performance

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

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie put on a poor performance when quizzed by Walt Mossberg at the All Things Digital conference, judging by Ina Fried’s live blog.

What was wrong with it? They allowed the conversation to be focused mainly on competing products: Apple iPad, Google Android, Google

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What is happening with Silverlight on Intel Moblin/Meego?

By tim, on May 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Last September, Microsoft and Intel announced a port of Silverlight to Moblin Linux. I posted on the subject here, including a quote from Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb:

Microsoft and Intel announced today that the two companies have agreed to work together to bring support for Silverlight 3 to Intel’s Atom-based Mobile Internet Devices (MID). These

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Adobe’s campaign against Apple misses the target

By tim, on May 14th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Nothing better demonstrates Adobe’s concern about being locked out of Apple’s mobile platform than a huge advertising campaign attempting, one assumes, to win public support and pressure Apple into yielding ground.

Still, if you are going to run a big PR campaign it helps to be right. But Adobe seems to be arguing that

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