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Microsoft Office Documents Editing Coming to the iPhone [IPhone Office]

The developers of Documents to Go—and Microsoft Office documents editor for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian—are finally bringing it out for the iPhone. This is going to be an...

Posted to Gadgets by Anonymous on 10-28-2008
Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Eric Schmidt, one of the developers on NBCOlympics.com, the official Olympics Web site for the USA, just dropped by Fast Company’s offices in New York City for a chat. We used to work together at Microsoft. I turned on my cell phone and videoed Schmidt and we talked about the site and he gave me...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
.NET Rocks! on ASP.NET Dynamic Data

The great folks over in DNR land just posted Scott Hunter's interview on ASP.NET Dynamic Data! In it he talks a lot about not only what is available with VS08 SP1, but also what is coming next. Exciting times! Show #349 | 6/10/2008 (63 minutes) Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 06-10-2008
Microsoft wants bright sparks

Andrew Thomas the Inquirer , Wednesday 16 April 2008. 12:25:00 Offers cheap kit for amateur developers SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH and small rodent, Microsoft has teamed up with hardware manufacturers to encourage hobbyists and academics to get their teeth into developing embedded applications. The Spark your...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 04-16-2008
IE 8 Beta

This email crossed my desk yesterday, courtesy of the MVP program: Microsoft has recently released a public beta of IE8 . Standards and security are of top importance in this release. To that end, the IE team is planning on releasing IE8 in full standards mode. Releasing in Full Standards Mode offers...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-08-2008
More on Paradise

A couple of people have commented on the previous entry , citing, essentially, that Google needs to do this to be "the best". I understand the argument completely: Google wants to attract the top talent, or retain the top talent, or at least entice the top talent, not to mention give them every...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-06-2008
Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions

At Mix08 , several people asked me about the possibility of creating a single source base for both WPF and Silverlight. The scenario folks had in mind was to provide a reach solution with Silverlight that hits *ALL* possible users while also offering a really rich solutions for some users on full...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 03-11-2008
Silverlight and WPF Control Developer Huddle at Mix08

I just ran into Ted Glaza from Ajax Control toolkit and Silverlight Controls fame and he is getting some of the control developers together (3rd parties, Microsoft as well as in house) to talk about building controls for WPF and Silverlight. We will have some folks there are are building...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 03-06-2008
Microsoft hits multiple Internet home runs

I just had dinner with a bunch of Italy’s top tech bloggers and technologists and Marc Canter. Plus I’ve been talking with people all day long. Microsoft hit major Internet home runs today with its announcements, based on what I’m hearing from formerly-skeptical developers. I haven’t...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 03-06-2008
Apple stabs Adobe in the back

On a week when Microsoft landed a big deal to put Silverlight on Nokia phones, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, tells Adobe that there won’t be Flash on the iPhone. This is a real bummer for Adobe and many users and developers, because most of the world’s casual games are written for Flash...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 03-05-2008

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