Today MIX07 kicks off at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas with the keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and General Manager Scott Guthrie. You can continue to catch live, on-going coverage at the Visit MIX website. Let me take a moment to quickly outline the many announcements that occurred today.   An updated Windows Live Dev ...

Yesterday we officially unveiled the name for what was previously known as the extremely catchy ''WPF/e'' (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters Conference.  WPF/e is now Microsoft Silverlight. OK, so what?  Just what is Microsoft Silverlight?  It's a new cross-browser, ...

Project codename ''Glidepath'' is an Evangelism initiative targeted at helping MicroISVs get started and be successful with a focus on Windows Vista. Project Glidepath includes a free software factory add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that delivers, via RSS, guidance, content, code samples, step-by-step instructions and even custom tools that help ...