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, ...

This year's MIX07 promises to be an exciting 72-hour conversation amongst Web devs, designers, advertisers, decision-makers and MS (I'll be there), with Ray Ozzie and General Manager Scott Gunthrie slated to start it all off with their keynote.  Just like last year at MIX06, MS is continuing to ''mix'' it up (the audience, that is) to get ...