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Miguel de Icaza: don’t blame Google for Microsoft’s contempt for developers

By tim, on May 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Xamarin’s Miguel de Icaza (founder of the Mono project) has complained on Twitter about Microsoft’s Windows Division’s “contempt for developers” when it created the Windows Runtime and a “4th incompatible Xaml stack”, in a conversation prompted by the company’s spat with Google over the YouTube app for Windows Phone. Google wants this removed because it

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Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urls

By tim, on December 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

There has been some Twitter chatter about the closure of silverlight.net, Microsoft’s official site for its lightweight .NET client platform. multimedia player and browser plug-in.

I am not sure when it happened, but it is true. Silverlight.net now redirects to a page on MSDN. Some but not all of the content has been migrated

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Infragistics building cross-platform development strategy on XAML says CEO

By tim, on November 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO at Infragistics, maker of components for Windows, web and mobile development platforms. Windows developers with long memories will remember Sheridan software, who created products including Data Widgets and VBAssist. Infragistics was formed in 2000 when Sheridan merged with another company, ProtoView.

In other words, this is a company

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Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie on what has happened to Silverlight

By tim, on June 25th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie last week, during his trip to the UK for a couple of Windows Azure events in Cambridge and London.

Guthrie is now Corporate VP Windows Azure Application Platform, a job he took up in May 2011. Before that he worked on .NET technologies including Silverlight, and I asked if

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Why Microsoft is scrapping the MIX conference

By tim, on January 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is scrapping its MIX conference, according to General Manager Tim O’Brien:

we have decided to merge MIX, our spring web conference for developers and designers, into our next major developer conference, which we will host sometime in the coming year. I know a number of folks were wondering about MIX, given the time of

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Silverlight 5 is done. Is Silverlight also done?

By tim, on December 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has has announced the release of Silverlight 5.0.

Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for Windows and Mac. It is relatively small size – less than 7MB according to Microsoft, though the Mac version seems to be bigger, with a 14MB compressed setup .dmg and apparently over 100MB once installed:

Never mind,

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Reflections on Microsoft BUILD 2011

By tim, on September 17th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from Microsoft’s BUILD conference at Anaheim in California, which lived up to the hype as a key moment of transition for the company. Some said it was the most significant PDC – yes, it was really the Professional Developers Conference renamed – since 2000, when .NET was introduced; some said the most

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A few facts about Microsoft’s new Windows Runtime

By tim, on September 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just come out of Martyn Lovell’s talk on WinRT internals here at BUILD in Anaheim, California.

Make no mistake: Microsoft has re-invented the Windows API in WinRT. Just to recap, WinRT is the API for Metro-style applications, the touch-centric, app-centric API for tablets and, one presumes, eventually for Windows Phone (though Microsoft has yet

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Here comes Windows 8 – but what about the apps?

By tim, on September 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve spent what feels like most of the night trying out the first developer preview of Windows 8, using an Intel tablet PC loaned by Microsoft for that purpose. The early preview is frustrating, in that many of what will be standard apps like Mail and Contacts are missing, but it is already obvious that

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Windows Phone 7 apps, stats and future

By tim, on September 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Justin Angel, a former Microsoft employee who worked on Silverlight, has posted his analysis of the 24,505 apps he found in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, exploiting a loophole that lets you get the download links. A few highlights:

97% of the apps are not obfuscated, meaning that it is trivial (with easily available tools)

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