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Is Adobe’s new HTML5 Edge tool Expression Blends replacement?
In October 2010, Steve Ballmer met with the CEO of Adobe the apparent discussion was around how to compete with Apple head-on. Having been an internal lead on Adobe competes within Microsoft, it got...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Adobe casual gaming partnership– Casual love or just gaming...
I often get many theories floated past me from staffers, usually it is a case of mind candy, and ways to figure out the chaos within Microsoft – kind of like reverse detective work? Today, I got a...
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Silverlight huh, bit of a …hot topic..wouldn’t you say?
So.. I did a bit of a video post on it; I think it was a balanced on what my thoughts where around how the current release was dumped in what West Wing used to call “Take out the Trash Day” It still...
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The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011
The calendar increments by 1 year now and as it does I think about the last year and ponder what I liked and disliked in my sandbox that I call the Microsoft ethos Windows Phone 7 I liked Nokias...
View ArticleEx-Silverlighters and how they influence the vNext
On the Interwebz, when you stumble your way through the various “Silverlight is dead”-style blog posts, what you will most likely see is the theme around skill transference. Silverlight advocates of...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 is the reset we have to have.
I’ve been reading quite a lot of narrative around Windows Phone 8 and mostly around how existing devices are going miss out on functionality. Looking at the two phones) in theory there is little...
View ArticleEnterprise Adoption & Windows 8 Hijackings.
In a business today there is a sales team who are out on the road or in a customers cubicle giving the said sales pitch about their vNext software. The sales pitch is a normal one filled with roadmap...
View ArticleThe consequences of declaring WPF is dead.
When you write a blog post like the one I wrote around WPF being dead, you tend to get a few emails that are either filled with confusion such as “it’s dead?…wtf?” or worse you get the email that...
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Microsoft officially supports Flash’s future over Silverlights past.
In late 2008, I remember being in a strategy meeting to discuss how the ubiquity problem for Silverlight could be energized more. In that meeting we were throwing ideas around how to get Silverlight...
View ArticleWindows 9 – replacing it with a triumvirate of products
This morning I saw a question posted to the local OzDotNet mailing list I subscribe to (i love me some DL action). I thought I’d keep this response on my blog for two reasons – I love the sound of my...
View ArticleXamarin & Microsoft merger may yet prove useful to designers.
The .NET community has been fractured for quite some time when it comes to mobile development, and a large amount of hate debt has been banked as a result. Products like Xamarin have been given the...
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