Silverlight 3 to Headline MIX09
Near the top of the list will be the first public demonstration of Silverlight 3.0, Microsoft's streaming media technology.
At next week's MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft officials plan show off the latest and greatest technologies and products for designers and website developers. Near the top of the list will be the first public demonstration of Silverlight 3.0, Microsoft's streaming media technology.
"Silverlight 3 will include major media enhancements (including H.264 video support), major graphics improvements (including 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration), as well as major application development improvements (including richer data-binding support and additional controls), Guthrie said in his post.
Guthrie, who is one of this year's keynote speakers, also said that Silverlight 3 will be out sometime this year, although he didn't pin it down any better than that.
"Next year [2009] Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express will also support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silverlight, and add tool support for data-binding," Guthrie added.
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform and Live Mesh are also expected to be hot topics at MIX09. Sanfilippo said he expects Microsoft may also reveal more details about licensing Azure.
Of course, this year it's impossible to escape talk about Windows 7 and there will at least be presentations on Windows Vista's planned replacement, although there may not be news regarding the system. The first, and possibly only, release candidate for Windows 7 is expected to ship in mid-April.
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