Articles on Silverlight

Microsoft dishing out ads on Xbox Live? - Jul 1, 2009

Crave Microsoft may be slipping some non-gaming ad banners onto your Xbox console dashboard soon. This was suggested by its director of the company's advertising business group. According to Sean Alexandar, ... Read story »

Microsoft to announce Silverlight 2.0 - Oct 13, 2008

Crave Microsoft has scheduled a conference call on October 13 in the US to announce, among other things, that it has completed version 2.0 of Silverlight, its rival to Adobe's Flash. The ... Read story »

Microsoft Bing Maps adds steet-level imagery - Dec 3, 2009

Crave Microsoft's new street-level imagery in Bing Maps takes advantage of Silverlight to do things Web applications can't, according to the company. Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, ... Read story »

We all love this Olympics, right? Not Adobe - Aug 15, 2008

Crave Here's the way things work at Microsoft: After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, ... Read story »

Second-generation Microsoft Bing coming soon - Sep 14, 2009

Crave Microsoft is getting ready to launch the next iteration of Bing, according to some wayward tweets. Mary-Jo Foley at our sister site ZDNet spotted a few eager Twitter users spilling the ... Read story »

2008 Olympics: The digital games - Aug 4, 2008

Crave Two years ago, watching the Olympics live via the Internet was limited to a single gold medal game of a popular sport. This year, everything from preliminary table tennis matches to ... Read story »

What it takes to bring the Olympics to the PC - Aug 1, 2008

Crave Stage 8H is best known as the place where Saturday Night Live is filmed. This week, though, it's been turned into an ad-hoc data center as part of NBC's efforts to ... Read story »

Skyfire mobile browser gets full-screen mode, Flash 10 - Dec 10, 2009

Crave The Skyfire mobile browser has gone through some dramatic design changes in the last year. The most recent version released on Wednesday continues to adjust Skyfire's visual composition--as well as ... Read story »

Is Microsoft trying to outwit Adobe's Photoshop? - Jul 9, 2008

Crave According to blogger Robert Scoble, Microsoft is hosting a photography summit this weekend at its campus in Redmond, Washington. It may seem a bit puzzling: Why would the biggest software company ... Read story »

IDF 2009: Of MID phones and Moblin 2.1 - Sep 23, 2009

Crave Moblin 2.1 unwrapped. SAN FRANCISCO--In what was a cool demonstration during Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), a prototype MID (mobile Internet device) was ... Read story »

MSN gets new butterfly logo - Nov 5, 2009

Crave Along with redesigning the MSN home page, Microsoft also gave the site's butterfly logo a new look. Aiming to stay relevant, Microsoft is introducing a new look for its MSN.com ... Read story »

Microsoft Bing's plans for the iPhone (and more) - Dec 4, 2009

Crave SAN FRANCISCO--Although Microsoft would rather everyone ran out and bought a Windows Mobile phone, the software maker is aware of reality. And, since it wants people to use Bing on their ... Read story »

Why wait for Windows Mobile 6.5? - Feb 19, 2009

Crave The enhanced usability features of Windows Mobile 6.5 may not be available for a few months yet, but that doesn't mean you have to wait for Microsoft's newly announced mobile ... Read story »

"Wii hacker" part of Microsoft's Natal effort - Jun 3, 2009

Crave Johnny Chung Lee, the former Carnegie Mellon researcher known for finding creative ways to adapt the Wiimote, has revealed himself as one of the minions behind Project Natal, Microsoft's effort ... Read story »

Google shows off Gmail mobile Web app - Apr 6, 2009

Features What Google did with Gmail in conventional browsers five years ago it is expecting to do again with a new mobile version of its Web-based email service. Read story »

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