Whats coming over the horizon at MIX?

Whats coming over the horizon at MIX? 03 Mar 2008 10:48

Only a few days before MIX 08 and it looks like ScottGu is well practiced on his keynote demo :) From the surrounding articles and other noise coming out lately I am personally expecting to see the following things talked about at MIX (although who knows if there are any other surprises waiting?):

Silverlight 2 (including Beta 1 bits)
Internet Explorer 8 (including Beta 1 bits)
Visual Studio 2008 designer support for Silverlight 2 (Beta 1 bits?)
Expression Blend 2.5 March CTP

Once again, Silverlight is very much at the fore. While its taking quite a bit of time to take hold in the market, particularly given its largely "beta" status during v1.0, I think its without question that everyone is very interested in developing richer applications on the web (RIAs) and how they can be delivered while still accepting accesibility and interoperability as key constraints so take note.

Also interesting in terms of timing, is last weeks launch of Adobe AIR. With Flash now reaching out to the desktop market, I think we will start to see a bigger push from Microsoft in getting developers to move towards WPF on the Desktop and Silverlight for the Web. Battle on, and I expect plenty of salvos to be fired from MIX.

On a side note - what do people think about the version numbering being shown there for Expression Blend?!? We dont even have version 2.0 released yet and they are already onto pushing out previews for a version 2 releases ahead.. Hmm.. So why would I use version 2.0 again? Curious.. :)

So looks like it will be an interesting week ahead - cant wait to get playing with the new Silverlight bits! :)

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