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I sat down with Darren and Nathan of Stimulant, to find out more about the mobile-based Silverlight app they showed in the keynote.  These are the guys that did the Northface kiosk, as well as the largest gesture-based interface ever.  They demo the app here in-depth, including the first…

The folks at Adaptive Path contributed to our new UX track at MIX08 with four full sessions on user experience.  This was a slimmed-down yet intense version of their "UX intensive" course, tailored to be immediately relevant to both developers and designers.Nishant sat down with…

Karsten just posted 3 more days of intense WPF Boot Camp training at MIX University.  This is our most updated training, delivered recently here in Redmond by several experts from Microsoft and our partners.  It takes you from beginner to intermediate in the first two days, and then dives…

During today's keynote, AOL showed off a blazingly fast webmail client based on Silverlight.  Some people didn't believe that this was an actual live demo, flipping through thousands of contacts and mails almost instantly.  But this was real code running against their production mail…

Elvis had so much fun last year at MIX07, he registered early this year and reserved his spot.  Proudly showing his "The King" attendee badge and waiting anxiously to be the first to get into sessions, he would blend right in if not for his flamboyant clothes and signature…

In part one of this two-part interview, Scott Guthrie gives a preview of the technology that will be discussed at MIX.  Scott talks about IIS 7.0 for developers, how they've improved hosting scalability, improvements to configuration management and deployment with the recent release of Web…

As mentioned earlier,the MIX08 BlogZone is open for you to mingle with fellow bloggers and interact with Microsoft spokespeople, Microsoft customers/partners and session speakers as they casually drop in. Stop by this evening for Free Food and Drinks (Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic). 

The Fallen Angels won the Rock Band event at MIX08 on Thursday night with 992,204 points! The Angels formed here at MIX08 and practiced pretty much every break between sessions.  They actually picked a song they’d never played together at the last minute after the band leader Rich got a tip…

The PDC is part of a whole family of Microsoft technical conferences. Just as the PDC is focused on the future of the Platform and technical strategy, our annual Tech-Ed Developers Conference (June 3-6, 2008 in Orlando) offers in-depth technical training on our current products. Our annual MIX…

Yesterday, Microsoft became the first in the industry to announce a data center designed entirely with shipping container-based server modules.  It's a sizable data center, supporting somewhere between 150,000 an 440,000 servers.  Mike Manos revealed some specifics about the…