Microsoft Mix Keynote One, Live From Las Vegas

10:58: Silverlight 2 comes with additional controls, such as slider controls. More functionality out of the box that Silverlight 1. All shipped with open source license.

10:55: Silverlight 2 ships with Multi-language support (C#, Iron Python and others), WPF UI Framework, Robust Networking (W Star + others, support for sockets), Integrated Data Support, “high performance, Small download, fast install. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is a 4.3mb download

10:54: got to say, the NBC Olympics site is kickass. Biggest round of applause for the event so far

10:53: you can view up to 4 live streams at once. Sort of like Yahoo Live, but with live sports

10:52: picture-in-picture support. Just like a decent TV, this is good, practical tech

10:51: live updates in the video, for example live events notices, all via Silverlight.

10:50: users will be able to rewind live video on the olympics sites, manually via a running sheet….note that this is live video, impressive.

10:46: Perkins Miller, NBC Sports on stage to demo the NBC 2008 Olympics site

10:40: Scott Guthrie back. Silverlight can be integrated with other ad platforms, hints at Google but doesn’t name them. Ari Paparo from DoubleClick takes the stage. Announces that DoubleClick supports Silverlight 2

10:37: still demoing silverlight dveloper tools. Gives ad publisher “total control over how their ads are displayed”

10:32: into Microsoft Expression Blend demonstration with Silverlight. Is it just me or is Microsoft software starting to look like Apple sotfware?

10:31: demoing Silverlight with advertising. Nice, easy to use interface within Visual Studio. Integration etc…

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