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I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08. Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the "Office Ribbon" toolbar. Popfly
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Over at the ISV Developer Evangelism blog, jpelak posted about a couple of preview SilverLight control toolsets, that are now available. They're from ComponentOne ( the Sapphire toolkit ) and InterSoft ( the WebAqua toolkit ). Both are beautiful and usable,
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Check out the video spoof of Bill Gates last day at work from the CES keynote over at Long Zheng's blog. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080107/bill-gates-last-day-microsoft-video/ I've always loved the fact that Bill Gates is able to have fun with
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In the new MIX08 podcast found at " The Signal ", during episode 2 or 3 , it's stated that MIX is all about the Web (not the exact quote). I disagree. MIX is about UX . It's about the tools and technologies from Microsoft to build those experiences. Its
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Tonight was the Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest at the Atlanta Microsoft office. I was lucky enough to be the guy that got to wear "the Master Chief Armour". Putting it on took some help, but once it was on you felt like you just wanted to smack some Covenant
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Tonight at the Microsoft office here in Atlanta there going to be nothing but fun at the monthly .NET group meeting. Doug Turnure , (our local Microsoft Dev Evangelist) will be giving free copies of Visual Studio 2008 (pro) to the 150 people in the door.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w Check out this video for some very interesting UI effects. It's called CompCom , and it's a re-merge of Beryl and Compiz. There's some eye candy effects and some interesting usable effects (dodge). Kudos to the
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Over at Long Zheng's site , he's got a video of the good people over at Microsoft Research Cambridge demoing a tablet version of Microsoft Surface . In the video you'll see Steve Hodges demo the functionality and how they did it. With Jeff Han's work,
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Looks like I was correct in my last post about Microsoft's surface using WPF. Here's a quote from ArsTechinca article about "What lurks below Microsoft's Surface" . <quote> Surface applications can be written in Windows Presentation Foundation or
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It's great to see all of the announcements about multi - touch computer interaction and surface computing these days. How we interact with devices is only going to become more and more interesting. Of course, that also means that how we interact with
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