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Well that was a non stop presentation of some quite impressive stuff. Mike Arrington is now quizzing Ray and Scott on some predictable things but his opening point was valid - it was very hard to blog about because there was too much going on...

The MLB presentation showed some interesting gui advantages of Silverlight, and previewed some good stuff for the wm6 version including live monitoring and streaming video.

The top banana application built in c and delivered with silverlight showed a simplified video editing tool with some pretty cool means of interacting with the screen elements and extremely rich feel - repeatedly pointed out in less than 50k.

There was also the announcement of ironruby and some talk about the support for dynamic scripting languages. One demo showed a simple silverlight editor allowing editing in js, ruby or python with instant preview and switching between...

Mix07 keynote

Ray arrived to whoops and cheers following the fanfare of the silverlight video you have probably seen. SaaS with the client; or software plus service was a feature early on.

He talked about bringing together universal web and 'experience first' approaches with silverlight, and the forthcoming 2 parts of the announcements about silverlight. As suspected he described it as the .Net runtime environment brought to the universal web as part 2.

Expression studio launched, and the 3rd part is silverlight streaming which provides a CDN for hosting silverlight content. Needless to say, providing consumers with the ability to take advantage of this platform will be a priority for us.

A new version of the silverlight plugin with .Net is available now.

Mixing it up

So, after a 28 hour day with an 8 hour flight losing five and a five hour flight losing three I finally made it to my vegas pit last night. Registration at the mix conference was pretty simple; and it really is an innovative conference; no bag! I guess i always expect to get a branded bag to identify me around the conference city but this time my anonymity is secured (assuming i remember to take the zippy name badge off). We did however get copies of Vista and of Expression Studio - the latter will certainly save some downloading!

It was really pre the main event last night but i briefly hung around at the mashup thing that was being held. It was quite entertaining and there were various people pushing some decent ideas about but not really enough people just yet. Tonight there's going to be a competition where the best mashup created in 4 hours wins - its been done but i've never been so we'll see.

There was of course an ice bar so that's the photo... another hasty and disappointing shot from the BB8300.