Why are Google and Microsoft creating large centralized databases of people's medical histories? Why are two Internet giants getting involved in medicine? And what is Microsoft doing to protect…

The search features of IE8 have really changed the way I work. One of the coolest new features is Visual Search, which is kind of like search suggestions, but more awesome. Check out this quick…

Did you know that the new Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 8 includes some new features to help protect your privacy? There are some similarities to the privacy features of Safari, but some…

Visio is a surprisingly flexible tool, and many designers now use it to create wireframes. Po-Yan Tsang is a PM on the Visio team responsible for designer-oriented features. In this interview, she…

Cynthia Shelly has worked with web accessibility both inside Microsoft and with our partners. She currently works in the Accessible Business Unit; the team who bring you the accessibility center on…

Rich user experiences are going mainstream on a wider variety of devices and putting pressure on web standards. This trend is changing the face of the web as we know it, and we've covered this trend…

The Seattle Times yesterday wrote about the growing influence of design leaders inside Microsoft. Two of the prime examples of this trend are Eric Zocher, General Manager for Expression Suite, and…

When I first started reading David Armano's blog posts about the "Fuzzy Tail" and the blurring of boundaries between roles in our industry, I knew we had to have him at MIX.He gave a session…

Dan Roam, author of the new book, "The Back of the Napkin", was at MIX08 to contribute to our new UX track. The feedback from attendees about his unique presentation was overwhelmingly…

The Web has created a common vocabulary for publishers to distribute content and applications to billions of browsers around the world. But people sometimes forget that the Web has also created a…

Aston Martin make some of the hottest cars in the world, and they showed off a really hot application during the MIX keynote. Nishant sat down with Marek Reichman from Aston Martin and Paul Bishop of…

One of the surprises in the keynote was the announcement that Move Networks would be using Silverlight. Move powers the streaming media for some of the biggest broadcasters, and tend to be rather…

From NBC to AOL, Nokia to Move Networks, the broad range of spotlight Silverlight applications attest to how much maturity the platform has gained since being launched last year.Accessibility has been…

Browse through thousands of pieces of Rock-n-Roll memorabilia in the Hard Rock collection! Hard Rock just launched the Hard Rock Memorabilia site using Silverlight 2 "Deep Zoom" technology,…

Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Watch Jane Kim explain how these features bring the power of mashups to the browser, and how you can tie your web site or…

Kirupa Dot Com, also known as Kirupa Chinnathambi, runs the hugely popular Flash and web development community named after him. He's recently joined the Expression Blend team as a PM, and is working…

HTML5 reached working draft status yesterday, and A List Apart just published a thoughtful analysis of IE8's departure from DOCTYPE switching. So what better time to publish our interview with Molly…

Jesse Warden (dot Kizz-ohm) was recently in town to meet with Bill Gates and the Silverlight team. Jesse is well-known for helping people fuse hardcore coding and Flash design. Between the lively…

The semifinals of the PhizzPop design challenge have wrapped up, and the contestants are busy preparing for the final competition to take place at SXSW in Austin.Laura interviewed some of the…

The PhizzPop Design Challenges are some of the coolest Microsoft-sponsored events I've ever attended (along with MIX, of course!). The solutions these agencies build in a three day period are…

Hot off the presses, we just announced that IE8 is successfuly rendering the Acid 2 CSS tests! This is a big deal, not the least because we hadn't publicly committed to doing this. Charles Torre…

IdentityMine is a great design agency on MSFT interactive technologies. Not only did they create the popular Blendables UI controls, they created and delivered the Silverlight training to prepare…

Opera is the 4th most popular PC-based browser, with high usage share in Northern and Eastern Europe. They are also the browser for Nintendo Wii and 100 million mobile devices. Opera is well-known…

Update: It's here! You can read more on Ian's blog.It's been reported that our new analytics tool, code-named Gatineau, will be public any day now. In anticipation, we put together this walkthrough…

Phizzpop is a new part of MIX Online that lets agency designers and developers interact, share, and show off their stuff. We're going to be officially announcing this at ReMIX Boston in a few days,…

Bill Buxton's influential "Sketching The User Design" was published earlier this year, encapsulating much of the wisdom he's gained since the days of Xerox Parc through to today, where he is…

Blue Flavor employs some of the most respected names in web design and development. If you attend any of the popular web design conferences, you've probably learned something from one of their…

In this installment of our series on social browsing, we take an in-depth look at Trailfire, a brilliant implementation of collaborative annotation (letting you put sticky notes on other people's web…

Leaflets are mobile apps for your iPhone, written completely using web standards. Conventional wisdom says that you need to use special SDKs or runtimes to take full advantage of mobile or produce…

Tina Wood recorded this quick demo of Hi-Def video with Ernie Booth. You can view the FOX demos yourself by visiting Silverlight.net. The FOX demo player has been upgraded to use the new release…

Me.dium is a social browsing addon that makes web browsing similar to hanging out in the real world. I've been using it for awhile and it's pretty cool. For example, when the San Franciso earthquake…

How do you encourage your organization to take web standards seriously? How can you enforce standards across a big company with no central dictatorship? What is the one question that you better not…

How do you encourage your organization to take web standards seriously? How can you enforce standards across a big company with no central dictatorship? What is the one question that you better not…

Lightmaker is the design agency behing such megabrands as Harry Potter and David Beckham's online presence. They built the Orlando Magic online seating selector using Silverlight.Scott Barnes…

Schematic is the interactive design agency behind Xbox Live Arcade, MTV Overdrive on Media Center, ABCNews.com (including the much-acclaimed player design backed by Move Networks), and some of the…

Back when the first web browsers were becoming publicly available, I used to find network security vulnerabilities for organizations connected to the Internet. When someone released a tool that could…

Prior to the aQuantive acquisition, Avenue A was already delivering a number of high-profile WPF and Silverlight applications on several continents. Scott Hanselman talked with Kamran Hameed and…

Back when Vista launched, Yahoo! announced an incredible instant messenging client that runs on Vista. The Yahoo! IM client for Vista uses WPF to give a beautiful user interface. It's the perfect…

Aaron Marcus has been in the business of "Design Intelligence" for 25 years. For any large consumer-facing media company that wants to do business multinationally, it's critical to have…

One of the really popular and highly-rated sessions at MIX07 was the session on "Building a Comic-Book Reader in WPF". Identitymine is the company behind this cool app, and also behind the…

You may have seen people on the subway or bus reading the New York Times on a tablet PC. You might even use the reader yourself. The reader has gotten some really impressive adoption since launching…

Of the many colorful attendees at MIX07, the two giant-sized cartoon mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympics were the most fun. Jingjing and Huanhuan had to fly back to China before the party at Pure,…

You've seen the footage of oxygen bar, massage bar, and Elvis playing Guitar Hero. Here is some final footage from the last day of the event. Good thing we had beanbags and couches for the sleepy…

Well, MIX07 is officially over. We grabbed some tape from behind the scenes of VisitMIX so you can get an idea of how we produced this site during the event. Jeff, Laura, Mahesh and Chris are eating…

Elvis knew by day one that Silverlight was the hot topic. Lori grabbed Mike Harsh from the Silverlight team and Scott Hanselman a Regional Director and asked them for the short, sweet, succinct,…

Ryan Stewart, the well-known RIA guy from ZDNet, interviewed Kevin Gallo and Mike Harsh from the Silverlight team. The interview covers a lot of in-depth back-and-forth about the tradeoffs we made in…

Matt Goyer was at MIX07 to talk about Redfin's use of Virtual Earth. He showed us a couple of demos and answered some questions while he was hanging out in the MIX Sandbox area.

Gavin Gear of Microsoft explains how Ink and pen input integrate with Microsoft Silverlight Beta 1.0. See demos of ink over photos, ink over videos, animation of ink, and more.

On day one of MIX07, Netflix demonstrated a truly sweet UI for video on-demand, using Silverlight. You might have seen the video of that demo. Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, sat down…

Elvis grabbed the microphone and interviewed some of the other attendees about their experiences so far at MIX. He even broke out into some spontaneous song, you can tell he's having a great time…

At yesterday afternoon's keynote, Disney Resorts showed off a cool Vista + Media gadget that they are shipping internationally to introduce people to the Disney experience.

During Robbie Bach's Keynote, we got so see how Nissan and National Geographic are reaching an audience in XBOX 360 and Windows Media Center. This is a whole new world for advertisers and consumers…

Here is the footage of the BBC's demo at Robbie Bach's keynote. Using Silverlight to bridge music festivals and the online world!

Kelly Goto is a well-known expert on research-driven, people-friendly interface design. Her clients love her work, and her presentations always get high marks. She presented at MIX last year on…

Elvis (well, his attendee badge actually says "The King") was one of the many cool attendees at MIX07. He's having a great time mixing it up with the other developers, designers, and BDMs. …

In the keynote, Jason DaPonte showed off a prototype that allows Radio 1 users to share media playlists with one another, using Silverlight and Live Messenger. After the keynote, Rory sat down him…

The guys from Frog Design are here giving a talk about how they implemented the Yahoo! instant messenger client in WPF. Rory sat down with them to hear about their experiences being very early…

What is "Experience Engineering"? Lou Carbone, author of "Clued In: How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again" sat down with Rory to talk about his experiences as a…

Robbie Bach's keynote starts in a few hours. While we wait in anticipation, we thought we'd share some action from the hallways on day one. Oxygen bar, slushies, guitar hero -- it's a lot of fun.

CBS Television Stations Digital Media group is always looking for new and interesting ways to let people consume and share media online. At today's keynote, they demonstrated a cool new app they've…

Here at the Venetian, they know how to broadcast sporting events. Creating an engaging experience that draws people into the game requires a lot more than just a live television feed with an…

In today's keynote, Netflix demonstrated a Silverlight-based video-on-demand player. The UI for this thing is truly impressive. Watch here to see how Netflix used Silverlight to provide a…

Facebook provides a great developer platform to let people write cool applications on top of the Facebook social network. Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager at Facebook, sat down with Rory to…

Code-name "Top Banana" is a really amazing video editing software created for Silverlight by Metaliq. This software is AWESOME. It runs in the web browser, cross-platform. We sat down…

It's just a few hours until the conference starts. Jeff, Laura, Rory, Tim and I are working like busy little bees to make sure you can experience the event from your feed reader. We took a few…

We’re in the final moments leading up to MIX07. The halls around my office are emptying out as people head to Vegas to prepare, or catch up on sleep in advance of 72 hours of activity. Starting on…