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Today, Valleywag tried to string two separate events and some made-up facts together to spin the yarn that NBC was not happy with the performance of Silverlight on NBCOlympics.com, and dumped the technology for Flash for their new NFL streaming site. At first blush, the reasoning sees logical…...

I've been saying this for a long time: The tech industry (and the financial markets associated with the tech industry) has continually underestimated Microsoft at its own peril. At MIX 08 today, Ray Ozzie emerged from his undisclosed location to show us all what the "Ray Ozzie Microsoft" will...

I kind of had a feeling that Silverlight would be coming to Mobile Devices soon... I just didn't realize it wouldn't come on Windows Mobile first. News.com has the scoop : Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year. The two...

Silverlight QuickStart Using Microsoft Expression Blend 2 is live now. It is similar to the the Silverlight 1.0 Beta QuickStart except that it focuses on using the designer tool Microsoft Expression Blend 2 to create Silverlight graphics and UI rather than working directly in XAML code. This tutorial...

Vincent Vergonjeanne just posted BubbleFactory game written with Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. You can play with it at http://cosmik.members.winisp.net/BubbleFactory/ . And if you are really good at this game, you can get yourself in its scoreboard (top 10 scores). Vincent spent five nights working...

Today, Microsoft completely changed the web development game , and chances are, you didn't even know it. If you STILL don't think Microsoft "gets it" after today's announcements, you're probably so ensconced in your tech-religious beliefs that there isn't much hope for you anyways. “Look, I’ve got IronPython...

I thought Microsoft was going to wait until MIX 07 to announce some of this stuff, but chose the National Association of Broadcasters instead to show off Microsoft Silverlight, formerly "WPF/E". DevDiv VP "Soma" Somasegar had this to say : As I mentioned, this Silverlight announcement at NAB is only...