Keynote Messages

    

We just finished listening to the opening keynote. The keynote is full of excitements with the following key announcements and messages.

Silverlight Messages:

• Compelling cross-platform user experiences
• Flexible programming model with collaborative tools
• High quality media with low cost
• Connected to web, servers, and services

Detailed announcements are:

Silverlight Programming Model Details

• Releasing Silverlight 1.0 Beta to support JavaScript/AJAX.
• Releasing Silverlight 1.1 Alpha to support .NET programming for building RIAs.
• Announcing cross-platform .NET (VB, C#) as part of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha.
• Announcing support for dynamic languages (Ruby, Python, Managed JScript) as part of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha.

Preview of Expression Studio and Visual Studio Support for Silverlight

• RTM of Expression Studio
• Releasing Expression Blend 2.0 May Preview to support Silverlight.
• Expression Media Encoder Preview for Silverlight.
• Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 to support Silverlight.

Details on Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

• First 4GB of storage free for Silverlight streaming.

Check out the momentum video from Ray Ozzie's keynote which includes a series of great WPF applications which was uploaded using Silverlight streaming service.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2007
  Earlier this week, I asked some Canadian attendees for feedback about MIX07 for the people who are interested