Aarthi Ramamurthy

So this is it! After watching the streaming keynote video for more than 2.5 hours now, I can finally talk about what's been cooking inside a lot of Microsoft buildings.

Silverlight was announced a few days ago. In addition to that, in Mix '07 conference that starts today, we announced the RTM (or the final release) of Expression Studio. Trust me, the demos of Expression Studio will blow your mind away! Silverlight will now ship with a cross-platform CLR (a small one at that) which lets people write and run apps on browsers on both Mac and Windows.

My favorite announcement for the day is the DLR or the Dynamic Language Runtime along with IronPython and IronRuby (yes, it's called IronRuby) which allows people to go implement their favorite dynamic language which gets compiled to .NET bytecode. Waaaay cool!

So what are you waiting for? Silverlight 1.0 Beta and 1.1 Alpha lies here.
The blog posts are just rolling in and there is so much buzz all over Internet. You can probably catch the entire webcast here (with the terrific demos and Ray Ozzie + Scott Guthrie's interview with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch fame) in a while.

Whew! So there, I've just blogged it. Exciting times are ahead. Wildly exciting times.

Labels: Microsoft, Mix, Silverlight

..lies not a pot of gold, but someone who wishes for more rain (yes, it rained today!).

Labels: Rain

Someday, I tell myself, someday, I'm going Photowalking with Scoble and Thomas Hawk. What do they do in Photowalking? They take great pictures! I love Scoble Show and I loooove Thomas Hawk's photo collection (especially the portraits) and his camera bag. So there, isn't it worth a trip to San Fransisco and back? :)

Labels: Photography

Shot at about dusk, on the shores of a beach in Chennai..



And with great hesitation, I post this one below - for you might think this is possibly the worst I could get, the blurred flower et al. Nevertheless, I found it quite interesting in a way I can't explain..

Labels: surreal

Labels: Calvin-and-Hobbes

A lot of folks have been blogging about new features that my team has been slogging to complete for the last year or so. What is a blog if you don't talk about your day-job? :)

The next version of Visual Studio is codenamed "Orcas" and here are the primary list of things that we've been doing and in the list there, (2) and (4) are specifically related to my world of things - we have Device Security Manager coming up as well as a new New Project Dialog. So if you are a device developer, and have been playing with the CTP bits ("Orcas" Beta1 coming soooon!), send me a note on what you think!

Labels: Day-job