Silverlight
Silverlight 2.0 has today been downloaded about 100 miljon times and the upgrade process has just started. It will be possible to run Ssilverlight out of the browser and not only in the browser as today. There will be a Silverlight toolkit containing:
- Charting
- TreeView
- DockPanel
- WrapPanel
- ViewBox
- Expander
- AutoComplete
- NumericUpDown
- more ...
Visual Studio 2010 will include a Silverlight designer.
Live Services
Earlier this week it was announced that Live Id will support Open Id. Identity (Live Id), Directory, Communication & Presence, and Search & Geospatial are the parts that today makes up Live Services. Today Microsoft announced that Live Mesh will be added to Live Services. Live Mesh wants to bridge data synchronization, applications, devices and users. They also announced Live Framework that makes it really easy to code against Live Services, but the framework really just abstracts the underlying REST APIs, which for some will feel just as natural.A couple of impressive demos was shown of how data was shared between persons and devices, one of them beeing BBC iPlayer.
Live Framework CTP
Live Mesh
Office 14
Office 14 will be much about connecting people and sharing information. Microsoft announced Office Web Applications, beeing Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. This will bring great web experience in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, but also an even nicer based on Silverlight. There is also a Office Live Workspace that could be used to share documents between devices and other. There was some impressive demos of collaborating work between two-three persons on the same documents, one of them in the full application, and another one on the web application.
Summary
The keynote was ending with Don Box and Chris Andersson taking an existing service developed with todays technologies, and moved it forward using a lot of the now announced technologies. This cleared a couple of question in my head and was a 1 hour long coding session without anything goiing wrong. Very impressive!
Microsoft message about the PC, phone and the Web beeing stronger if used all three together is of course a direct answer to the competetion of Google and other "new" companies, since Microsoft is the only one with all three this must success for them to be able to continueing there success story.