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The Return of the Revenge of the Webtop
From left to right: Microsoft’s Silverlight, Google’s Chrome OS and Adobe Systems’ AIR are all moving the web beyond the browser. As the oft-repeated story goes, in the latter half of the 1990s, Netscape co-founder Mark Andreessen boasted that Netscape … Continue reading
Kevin Lynch: Clearing the AIR
Knowledge@Wharton today published an interview I did with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Lynch talks in depth about the origins of Adobe’s AIR platform and its potential impact on software developers, consumers, and business users. Lynch also addresses some of the … Continue reading
Scott Guthrie on Silverlight and RIAs
At the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas I spoke with Microsoft corporate vice president Scott Guthrie about the launch of the beta of Silverlight 2 and what it means for Microsoft’s foray into the arena of rich Internet applications. Guthrie … Continue reading
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Pre-MIX Mishmash
MIX — which is more or less Microsoft’s version of Adobe’s MAX — is just around the corner and the rumors are flying regarding potential announcements around Microsoft’s Web application strategy (or, perhaps more accurately, “strategies”). Ryan Stewart cites … Continue reading
Microformats: A New Hope
Two events this past week could help to expand the deployment of microformats. Microformats are a clever way of getting from the Web we know today to a more meaningful “semantic” Web, without breaking what works now. By adding simple … Continue reading
Adobe Engage 2008 and Why AIR
Adobe Systems yesterday hosted “Engage 2008″, an event somewhere between a press presentation and a customer feedback session. As I posted yesterday, AIR and Flex 3 were officially launched the same day. Adobe also unveiled opensource.adobe.com, a Web portal for … Continue reading
Adobe Launches AIR and Flex 3
About an hour ago (at 12:01 ET), Adobe Systems officially launched version 1.0 of its AIR platform, along with Flex version 3. AIR introduces a new method for developing cross-platform software applications that blend the characteristics of browser-based Web applications … Continue reading
