"At the company's Professional Developers' Conference in October, Microsoft unveiled Live Mesh for applications, including the ability to run DTHML and Silverlight applications offline in a deskto read more » DiscussBury
"Today, Microsoft also released the new versions of its Windows Live Essentials desktop tools that accompany the online services. The Windows Live Essentials suite includes updates for Live Mail, Li read more » DiscussBury
Tim Anderson writes " I wrote a simple test application for Silverlight running on Live Mesh. It is an interesting scenario, which enables Silverlight applications to run offline, in the style of Ad read more » DiscussBury
Netflix's decision to dump Microsoft's Windows Media Player for Silverlight will result in 50 technical experts exiting the online movie specialist." read more » DiscussBury
Steve Gillmor writes, "In the context of Google, a reinvigorated Apple, and the rise of cloud computing, Microsoft has figured out they have just as much of right to be reborn. Ray Ozzie’s tenure at read more » DiscussBury
Ryan Paul reviews JavaFX 1.0, stating "Sun has officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new rich Internet application (RIA) development framework that is built on top of the Java platform. Sun aims to boos read more » DiscussBury
"Like Silverlight and Ajax, the JavaFX scripting language can be used to build rich, interactive Web applications and adaptable user interfaces for smartphones and other mobile devices." read more » DiscussBury
"The first beta version of Moonlight 1.0, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight framework, has been released. The developers aim to have alpha-quality Silverlight 2.0 support..." read more » DiscussBury