Microsoft MIX 2009 – Opening Keynote

Microsoft&aposs Web technologies conference is kicking off in under an hour in Las Vegas, NV and if you&aposre unable to attend then at 09:00 open up your browser to MIX Online.

What will Microsoft be discussing during the keynote?  Expect to hear more about the forthcoming upgrade to Internet Explorer, IE 8.0, and maybe even an announcement that IE 8.0 is now RTM. ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, Windows Azure and Cloud Computing, … Web 2.0 is almost history, let&aposs move on to Web 3.0!

9.39am: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released.

              Microsoft .NET RIA Services March &apos09 Preview (4.1 MB)

              RIA = Rich Internet Applications

             

              Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK Beta 1 (9.6 MB)

              Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (31.3 MB)

              The Microsoft Silverlight 3 beta runtime (6.23MB) v3.0.40307.0

9.45am: Web Platform Installer provides unified list of the Web Platform components and enables you to select those you wish to download.

Expression Web 3.0 will provide a feature known as Super Preview which enables you to instantly see how the site will be rendered by different browsers. Super Preview can either use a locally installed browser such as Firefox or a Cloud service for browsers that are not installed locally.

9.51am: Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 released…

              Windows Azure on track to release this year. 

              Windows Azure will now support full trust of .net applications and PHP applications.

10:02am: Silverlight more than 350 million installs and 10,000&aposs of sites built using Silverlight today.

10:14am: Silverlight 3.0 provides support for GPU optimizations and video scaling, new codec support (H.264, AAC, MPEG-4), raw bitstream audio/video API&aposs, and improved logging and diagnostics.

10:25am: 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be streamed by NBC in full 720p HD using Silverlight 3.0.

10:53am: Expression Blend 3.0 provides support for importing and exporting with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PhotoShop.

11:08am: Silverlight 3.0 includes support to run the application outside the browser on both Windows and the Mac within a security sandbox. Using the security sandbox, users will not be prompted for permission to do something scary on their machines.

Silverlight 3.0 download is actually smaller than Silverlight 2.0 given the focus the team gave to ensuring that the size of the download didn&apost increase!!!

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