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• I’m excited about Windows Vista

  Windows Vista is finally here. Regardless of the naysayers and gloomy predictions about adoption rates, I'm excited about Windows Vista. It pushes the bar for experience and makes Windows development accessible to a new group of people - devigners. WPF is going to bring about some awesome applications and that should be applauded. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:08 AM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Experience, .NET 3.0, Expression Studio

• Is “Technology X” a desktop version of the .NET Framework for Mac?

  The Mix 07 "About Page" lists a bunch of topics covered including "Exciting new Web experiences with the still-secret 'Technology X'". I haven't been able to figure out what Technology X is but after some research today I wonder if it has anything to do with running WPF/E on the desktop on a Mac. Read More... Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:09 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Mix07

• Microsoft, Developers, Designers and Bill Gates

  I was part of a group that went to Microsoft to talk about the Mix 07 conference and we got a chance to meet Bill Gates and each ask him one question. There were a lot of great topics, and Bill touched on both web applications and the role of the operating system in the future. Here's what he had to say. Read More... Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:47 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, design, Devigner Workflow

• First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere

  Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world of RIAs you come up with traits like cross-platform, designer/developer workflow, rich media and a bridge between the desktop and [...] Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 12:00 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0

• Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere info starting to trickle out

  I'll have a lot more information on Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) coming up on Monday, but it looks like David Boschman has some links on his blog. Including a link to the new WPF/E page on MSDN. (via John Dowdell). It looks like the download is unavailable, but if you look at the Top Downloads [...] Read More... Posted Saturday, December 02, 2006 9:56 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Avalon

• Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006

  A new blog about WPF/E, an update on Novell's Mono, information about SAP's new UI, Adobe Kuler, Microsoft and Sprint team up to do mobile and another reason to embrace the RIA. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:10 AM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Adobe, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Flex, .NET 3.0, Universal Desktop Daily

• Rich Internet Application platforms and the Stack

  Dion Hinchcliffe, my fellow ZDNet blogger, gave a rundown on what he called the "RIA wars". Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:13 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Adobe, Apollo, Google, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Flex, .NET 3.0

• Universal Desktop Daily, Monday, September 11, 2006

  It is amazing how ingrained a date can become in your mind. It is hard for me to believe that it was Read More... Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:55 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Experience, Read/Write Web, .NET 3.0, Universal Desktop Daily

• Windows Presentation Foundation in action - Microsoft MAX

  The Microsoft MAX team announced today that they have a new version of the product out which uses the Read More... Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 3:20 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0

• Windows Presentation Foundation Release Candidate 1 is in the wild

  This actually caught me as a big surprise. For weeks I had been assuming that Vista would be pushed back Read More... Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 7:16 PM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0, Avalon

• The tools and technologies of the Microsoft platform

  In a previous post on Microsoft's Rich Internet Application strategy I talked about the five pillars Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:06 AM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Atlas, .NET 3.0, WinFX

• Microsoft's Rich Internet Application strategy

  I had a phone call Monday with Parimal Deshpande, senior product manager for Windows Presentation Foundation Read More... Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:53 AM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Experience, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Atlas, .NET 3.0

• Hints of support for WPF/E on Mac

  On Tuesday, Nathan Herring blogged that he was leaving the CoreCLR team to work on the Mac version of Read More... Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:43 AM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0

• Microsoft delays Expression Tools to 2007/2008

  While Microsoft had never really announced a ship date for Expression, it was fairly well known that Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:00 AM from The Universal Desktop | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Adobe, Apollo, Flex, .NET 3.0