Microsoft has released Silverlight version 3 with GPU Acceleration. The Silverlight web application framework is a direct competition to Adobe Flash.

This version of Silverlight supports Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8 and Firefox 2, 3 on Windows, and Safari 3, and 4 on the MAC platform. Microsoft however; has not included Opera and Chrome browsers which is probably a slap of Google enforcing that they are no force in the browser wars.
The 3rd version of Silverlight came after four months of beta and now supports a lot of new features and APIs including the GPU hardware acceleration. Aside …read more

Microsoft has relaunched their Microsoft Office Labs website with a completely new redesign using the Silverlight development platform.
Milo Riano walks us through the transition and options of availability in his recent article about the change.
There’s quite a bit of interesting tools available from the site that you can use to increase your productivity in Office or just give yourself some new tools to help make Office a little bit more than it is currently.

I’m really excited about the Olympics getting ready to start on 08.08.08. Even as simple as it is, I love the date it’s about to start.
One of the other things I’m looking forward to this year is the ability to really be able to enjoy the highlights of the various events that I will inevitably miss because of work or other responsibilities.
NBC has used the Microsoft Silverlight media technology to make the videos come alive.
The only problem is I’ve gone to the site now a few different times now and I’m continually prompted to download and install …read more

It seems we’ve been hearing about it now for years, but as of July 1st Bill Gates will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of the company he built over 33 years ago.
In his last public speech, he speaks to developers about the past 33 years and some of the products we’ll be looking forward to and using in the weeks, months and years to come.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2
Microsoft Sync Framework
Microsoft Velocity
Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework
Microsoft Oslo

I’m really looking forward to see how Internet …read more