Microsoft's Adobe flash-killer Silverlight is entering its next phase with the software maker set to debut Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate late this week.
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.
The head of Microsoft's Windows Live Platform Services group has offered an early description of services and tools that Microsoft will release at next week's Mix08 Web conference.
Microsoft's fourth-generation answer to Adobe Flash, Silverlight 4, was released overnight at the software giant's 2009 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
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.
Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
Thousands of Australian Web technologists and internet workers are attending the Web Directions South conference in Sydney this week. We dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.
Developers and designers are in a constant battle when working together on an application or Web site project; a presentation at Microsoft's ReMIX conference in Melbourne last month described the issues perfectly -- with an egg.
So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?
Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.
Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
Microsoft has learned some very serious lessons when it comes to complying with Web standards after taking heavy criticism from the industry and, more importantly, a beating in the browser market share.
Developers and designers are in a constant battle when working together on an application or Web site project; a presentation at Microsoft's ReMIX conference in Melbourne last month described the issues perfectly -- with an egg.
Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
Don't let the toy-like appearance of the Toshiba Portege A600 fool you, this fully featured portable laptop is packed full of features.
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