Tag: MIX10

They've just showed off hardware-accelerated HTML5 at the MIX10 keynote, and it's damn impressive. Main points: Full-screen, HD-encoded video on netbooks -- the keynote highlighted the dropped frames in Chrome, while IE9 rendered it fine -- made possible by the hardware decoder on the netbook. Multiple HTML5 videos on one page? -- then they scroll the page down... and there are two HTML5 ...

It seems, backed by many large corporate partners and its superior video quality, Silverlight has now reached 60% market penetration. That's up from 45% at the end of 2009 -- a rather startling leap! At MIX10 they are currently bragging about Silverlight's superior video quality and its ability, when combined with Microsoft IIS's smooth streaming technology, to deliver 720p content to millions ...

Microsoft's three-day conference for web designers and developers -- MIX -- has just begun in Las Vegas. After a rather odd yo-yo-based introductory fanfare, details about Microsoft's upcoming products have already started to emerge. First, Windows Phone 7 Series will not feature Internet Explorer 9 as its browser -- rather, it will be something 'in between IE7 and IE8'. The first day of MIX ...