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Microsoft has just announced the details of its plans for building the .NET runtime and .NET class libraries into its new Silverlight, cross-platform, cross-browser Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. It’s an important announcement. The devil is in the detail with all this stuff, and from what Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has said, I [...]
Usually, I don’t find Apple’s series of “Get a Mac” ads all that compelling. You know the ones, they start, “Hello. I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC”. It’s not that they’re not well-made. They are. The reason why I don’t find them compelling is that they’re often based around ideas that [...]
Yesterday, I was at a conference, and got talking to someone who works at a medium sized company that is currently based around Macs on the corporate desktop. They’re a large enough company that they do a lot of custom software development for the Mac for internal use in the company; and large [...]
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - WPF/E could be massive for Microsoft. However, as is the case with many things, the devil is in the detail. And my assertion is that, whether or not it turns out a success depends critically on how well they execute on the “E” in [...]
Microsoft has invented developed a new image format - called Windows Media Photo. From a quick glance, it looks pretty good (check out the nice work that Bill Crow, Microsoft’s Program Manager for Windows Media Photo, is doing on his blog). I’m more than a little interested in image formats at [...]
Apple has announced a public beta release of a new software product, Boot Camp, which allows users of Intel Macs to dual boot their machines into either MacOS or Windows XP.
I think a lot of people will find this an attractive option. Hopefully, the next step is full virtualization, enabling people to run Mac [...]
Over the past week, news sites and blogs have been full of stories about delays in the launch of a couple of big products: the new version of Microsoft Windows - Windows Vista; and then new games console from Sony Corp, the PS3. In some of these stories, and the community comments responding [...]