Bill Gates bids farewell in Tech·Ed keynote

In his farewell TechEd keynote, the last as Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates today announced a Go Live edition of Silverlight 2, a new data caching technology and a partnership with IBM.

Silverlight 2 beta 2 was released with a Go Live licensepermitting customers to use the prerelease software in productionshortly after the keynote had ended. The second beta of the Silverlight 2 tools for Visual Studio 2008 was released at the same time.

The betas feature set is complete, said Jonathan Perera, general manager of Microsofts Application Platform division, in an interview with SD Times. However, he could not confirm whether Microsoft had addressed developers complaints by expanding its isolated storage or by adding support for using HTML and Silverlight within the same application.

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Next Silverlight 2.0 beta could appear this week

Developers going home from TechEd 2008 in Orlando (just as the admin folks arrive for the following week’s demos) could find a delightful surprise in their annual tote bags: the newest plug-in for Visual Studio.

New HP-Microsoft Live Search deal is all about Silverlight

Following the recent announcement of Live Search cashback,
Microsoft has today disclosed a new deal with HP that is expected to
give a slight boost to the usage of both Live Search and Silverlight in
the US and Canada, starting in January 2009. The deal centers around a
Silverlight-powered toolbar (not to be confused with the recently
updated MSN Silverlight toolbar) that Microsoft is specifically developing for HP.

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