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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 version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

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, (remember that UX is not just about looks) and would be at home ...

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, the good people at Fingerworks (oh, I mean Apple's iPhone) work, and the work ...

  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 devices will become more confusing.  Don't be surprised to see ...