Not content to let Adobe and Microsoft slug it out, Java and Firefox decide to enter the fray. APC: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight CNET: Schwartz: JavaFX can take on Flash I don’t think that this will amount to more than a distraction. JavaFX seems a bit like a mess. Reading over [...]
Is Microsoft still licensing PMC software? in microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter.portable Microsoft is no longer licensing the PMC software. Here is an announcement that was sent out last year to our PMC partners: In early 2006, Microsoft released the second version of Windows Mobile for Portable Media Centers to our partners. The second version of the Portable Media [...]
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/take-time-to-understand-silverlight-its-important/ I agree that Silverlight is important, but Mr. Arrington gave such a content-light, gushing, oh-my-gawd report of it, that all my BS meters went off. Then they went off the charts when it turns out that HE WAS PART OF THE PRESENTATION, ON THE STAGE INTERVIEWING THE DEVELOPERS. The comments have more meat, but [...]
Flex:Open Source – Adobe Labs this is freaky awesome news. I work at Adobe and I didn’t even know about it. This will totally open up the tool chain and allow lots of cool authoring apps addressing the different needs of Flex developers. I won’t jump the gun and declare Expression or WPF/e dead, but [...]
vs Great post on explaining the benefits and problems with both Microsoft and Adobe’s approaches to rich internet apps. The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft’s Rich Internet Application technologies
[via Mary Jo Foley] David Bennet, a dev on the Vista Parental Controls team is leaving Microsoft and he decided to take some pot shots on the way out. “I just accepted a position to work at Google up in Kirkland, so still in Seattle. I will be starting there on the 30th of April, [...]
SB.com: –Engage! After all this, I realized that MS made a really powerful tool for really expert users. It seems that after all is said and done that it is a tool not for interaction designers, but for interactive designers and thus its real promise is lost because interactive designers don’t design or engineer applications [...]
Simon Brocklehurst thinks so, and I agree with him. Microsoft has a long history of promising to support other platforms and then coming up short or dropping them quickly. We used to joke at Microsoft that cross platform meant both Windows98 and WindowsNT.
Scoble starts a discussion (Why do a reader only for one publication? (Adobe vs. Microsoft for developers)) and Ryan Stewart picks it up (How Adobe started winning developers) I think we’ve got some fun coming on and we developers are going to be in the catbird seat as Adobe and Microsoft fight it out for [...]
The code name for Windows Mobile 6 is “crossbow.” Crossbow is a weed killer used for killing blackberries.
