"​Technology X" -- your guess?

This has been mentioned in a few threads, but I thought it might be fun to collect our wild guesses.

For my guesses, I'll aim high:

1. Cross-platform runtime for a subset of .Net
   
   
2. Something akin to cross-platform SQL Server Express for offline persistence of WPF/E smart client data

On a similar note, anyone know what "Silverlight" is?

https://content.visitmix.com/public/sessions.aspx

The SilverLight codename has been replaced with "Advanced ASP.NET" in this case:

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Scott Guthrie, Developing Advanced ASP.NET Applications (part 1&2)

Ok..howabout this thought, MSN Premium/MSN Explorer was at one point in time, suppossed to progress to vers.10 w/ the launch of Vista..then all of a sudden one of the things no one talked about for the last couple years since the Live products began and MSN was supposedly on the way of the dinosaur was this product..it was as if it didn't exist..then MSN it was decided would continue as the entertainment outlet of Microsoft..then in the last few months after confusion at different moments over where Live would be going some things began slipping back towards MSN away from the Live branding...now say MSN Explorer/Premium services would have continued, the next step would've been vers.10 or in a cool microsoft branding type of way possibly the roman numeral for 10...X! I've always wondered how things such as IE7, Live Toolbar, the Windows Live Mail Desktop app, Virtual Earth, all the new other "services", plus the old advanced apps touted by MSN Premium/Explorer, such as the enhanced MSN Money and Calendar (possibly the mysteriously delayed Live Calendar) would end up being bundled together for Microsoft to throw at consumers in one package. Close watchers will note that 2 Live beta apps that dissapeared were Live Essentials and the Wi-Fi center, these things could all be bundled into this platform along w/ the Live Parental Controls, Safety Center and Live Drive and be the basis for what we've heard is Windows Live Core that Ozzie has been working on. Possibly w/ a pretty Vistafied front end? Some of you may be thinking..wow, that kinda makes sense or some might think I've smoked too much funny stuff but I think it makes sense and would be pretty damn cool. "MSN X w/ Windows Live Services" or something?? Anyways, guess we'll see soon enough!! lol 

Paragraphs, Tegument.  Paragraphs.  Your response is interesting but a bear to read.

No hints of "Technology X" in the Mix University. 

JasonOlson wrote:

I could be wrong (as I'm a server guy) but I think Silverlight is perhaps the code name for WPF/E.

Larsenal wrote:



1. ...
   
2. Something akin to cross-platform SQL Server Express for offline persistence of WPF/E smart client data

So, what -was- Technology X? Silverlight 1.1?

Larsenal wrote:



Larsenal wrote:  ... Something akin to cross-platform SQL Server Express for offline persistence of WPF/E smart client data

And I had hoped Microsoft would have built this first.