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  • Developers want Ballmer to show money

    Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.

  • Third Chrome beta another notch faster

    Google began updating Chrome users with the new beta version, and performance tests show the company has ratcheted the browser's speed up another notch

  • Silverlight 2.0 due today

    Microsoft has scheduled a conference call today in the US to announce, among other things, that it has completed version 2.0 of Silverlight, its rival to Adobe's Flash.

  • Windows Mobile 7 delayed

    Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its handset operating system.

  • Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?

    The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning.

  • Google plans Chrome extensions

    Google yesterday in the US said it planned to develop an add-ons system for its new Chrome browser, similar to the functionality that can be found in rival Mozilla Firefox.

  • Second Silverlight 2.0 beta to take up Flash fight

    Microsoft is launching a revamped test version of its Silverlight software that is designed to broaden the appeal of the company's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash.

  • Twitter lets staff "trigger nuclear option" on bosses

    Mark Pesce, Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, says that the days of bosses' bad office behaviour are well and truly numbered.

  • Open-source Silverlight released for developers

    The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, JavaFX, and Apple QuickTime.

  • Sun: JavaFX can take on Flash

    This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight.

  • Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda

    Companies building Web sites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.

  • Mono brings Silverlight and Adobe AIR closer

    Miguel de Icaza, who heads up the open source Mono project, has provided an update on a project to create Silverlight applications that run out of the browser, moving a small step toward what Adobe Systems offers with AIR.

  • Microsoft launches IE-enhanced Windows Mobile 6.1

    Microsoft has officially announced version 6.1 of its Windows Mobile operating system.

  • Microsoft releases more XAML details

    Microsoft on Tuesday made more technical information available for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications.

  • Microsoft tinkering with iPhone SDK

    Ever since the release of the iPhone developer kit, software companies everywhere have been trying to figure out just what they might be able to bring to the device -- and that includes Microsoft.

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