Microsoft will reveal more details on Silverlight 3 at its forthcoming Mix 09 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company has promised deep dives at the March show into controls, rendering, and latest media features, and promised to discuss what's new in its third installment.
The next two releases of Silverlight will take Microsoft's media player in completely new directions, the technical executive in charge has promised.
On the "Engineering Windows 7" blog, Windows development chief Steven
Sinofsky announced that there will be just one
beta of Windows 7.
The European Commision is considering to force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.