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Silverlight 2 was finally released to the world today!  Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft made the official announcement today at 9am PDT. This is a significant event as it not only marks a huge milestone for the Microsoft Silverlight Team, but ...

Microsoft released the official PDC 2008 and Windows 7 Promotional Video today finally after a huge amount of hype.  We tried to reach Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates for comments but our phone calls went un-answered.  Chances are they are stuck trying to figure out what to do with the new bo...

Starting a new software development project in the next little while?  Praying and hoping that it goes well?  Are you worrying about all the little software development intricacies like: Making sure you have a proper source control, ensuring you have a continuous integration environment, m...

John Bristowe has been hard at work on TechDays, but today he decided he would take a break and create a list titled “You might be a web developer…â€�.  I laughed, I cried, I called my mom.  Seriously though some of the one liners were instant classics. Some of my favorites include: If...

How Microsoft can beat Google and win the Search Game It sounds like everyone wants to beat Google these days.  Great goal, but how do you do it?  Everyone seems to think they have the magic bullet! Microsoft was about to buy Yahoo! for over 44 billions of dollars!  They are investing...

After a couple of weeks of the Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld commercials that were utterly confusing in the short versions that aired on TV, Microsoft has launched its new commercials today that take direct aim at Apple.  "I’m a PC and I’ve been made into a stereotype," sa...

On Tuesday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates focused one of his final keynotes as Chairman of the Microsoft Corporation on Software Developers.  Gate's took the time to remind everyone that the common link between everything Microsoft has ever built was software development tools.  One of his major a...

How Is Silverlight Really Doing? Silverlight  1.0 was released about a year ago now, maybe a good time to do a reality check! About a year ago their were 0 installs of Silverlight out there.  Today, there are nearly 1.5 Million Downloads a day of Silverlight.  Most of the applications...

If you have Adobe Flash player installed like most people on the Internet, make sure you check your flash version and ensure you are running version 9.0.124.0.  If you are running a lower version, your machine is susceptible to sending pretty much anything to the hacked flash applet, and server...