Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager) IE8: Select an address, choose "Live map" from a context menu and get a Live Map view of the place. Web slices: User can subscribe to parts of a web page. Hover on a part of the site, icon shows up, select a "web slice" and subscribe.Displays a new bookmark, live view of the web page "extract". Beta 1 of IE8 available for developers after the keynote Scott Guthrie Quick peep of live Silverlight sites. 1.5 million installations of Silverlight per day, should accelerate with SL2 SL2 Beta 1 available today Silverlight 2.0 now runs on mobile devices. Bandwidth can be an issue --> adaptive streaming added to SL2. Switch between bitrates automatically as CPU and bandwidth change. No need to write any code for that, SL takes care of it dynamically.
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