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Silverlight 2.0 (formerly known as 1.1) Announced

ScottGu dropping the news as usual. Most interesting feature, IMO, is the upgraded communication support: "The next Silverlight preview release will add support for REST, POX, RSS, and WS* communication. It will also add support for cross domain network...
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JD Confused

JD is confused about the statement made in a MS presentation with don and chris: Chris: We’ve made our intentions clear with WPF/E; we’re not pretending [like Adobe is with Flash] that it is some kind of open standard. People are saying that...
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WPF/E Faster than Flash?

Been busy launching a new product for the last few months ( http://www.articulate.com/products/articulate-online.php ), but getting some time to hit the blogs and noticed this tidbit: "Here are results I got testing with 16 balls on my Pentium M...
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WPF/E CTP Around the Corner

SWEEET! "Microsoft is preparing to release a Community Technology Preview of WPF/E, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation that utilizes cross-browser Web technologies and is designed to run on multiple operating systems and even mobile...
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SVG is Dead

Via JD, Adobe has killed all future SVG player development. With Adobe out of the game due to Flash and Microsoft out of the game with WPF/E, we are one step closer to SVG being know as the vector graphics betamax. [1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html...

SWF, is it Really Open?

So, Adobe is threatening to sue Microsoft in regard to supporting PDF and XPS in Office... I wonder what is going to happen with the supposedly open SWF format... It's a good thing Microsoft didn't follow JD's advice and integrate it into their products...

WPF/E

Tim Anderson has some commentary on WPF/E. He sums up his thoughts like this: In the past Microsoft has been characterised by its single-minded focus on Windows. Why does it now want to create a cross-platform runtime engine? It is the clearest sign yet...
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