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Microsoft MIX 2009 - Day Two Keynote
By Doug Holland (Intel) (249 posts) on March 18, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Beginning at 09:00 tomorrow I'll be blogging again through the second keynote address at Microsoft MIX 2009in Las Vegas, NV.
Microsoft will be making available the Day 2 keynote address live at the MIX 2009 site and you can already watch the opening keynote and a question and answer session with Scott Guthrie called Ask the Gu.
During the opening keynote address there was a humorous video of Scott Guthrie getting ready for the keynote speech and this is definitely worth the download and the few minutes to watch it!!!
I'm back here this morning and will update the post with updates throughout the keynote address which is about to begin. It is unlikely we'll see a beta of Visual Studio 2010 tomorrow although it might be possible that we'll see the release of IE 8.0 to manufacturing. You'll have to check back at 09:00 to see...
Another interesting discussion on Channel 9 features Scott Guthrietalking about Silverlight 3.0 in Inside Silverlight 3.0.
09:00am - Internet Explorer 8.0 Released!!!!
Available in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 within x86 and x64 editions.
Tabs within IE8 are isolated and so if a Web page causes a browser to crash other tabs are unaffected and you will therefore be less likely to loose work. IE8 was also shown to outperform Chrome and Firefox in rendering www.blogger.com.
Want more information on IE8.0 for developers? Visit the IE8.0 MSDN Developer Center and the IE8 Team Blog.
IE8.0 provides InPrivate browsing capabilities where cookies will not be able to track your visiting sites and those sites will not be listed within browsing history. If you're a parent you might want to know about this capability before allowing your children to go online and hopefully Microsoft will allow this to be disabled using Windows Parental Controls.
Accelerators in IE8.0 provide new capabilities for developers and users, here is an example of what happens in IE8.0 if you select the address of the Intel Corporation office in Santa Clara. You'll see that there is now a blue square with an arrow. If you click on the accelerator you're presented with a menu of possible accelerators including the one shown below which enables you to map to the address using Live Search.
I can really see how Accelerators will be very useful for research and even my children doing homework online. Of course in the case of my children doing homework online I'll have to first determine how to disable InPriviate browsing on their accounts.
Wow, can you believe it has been 10 years since IE5.0 was released ... the Web really has evolved in the last ten years to become an integral aspect of our daily lives. It will be interesting to see what the Web can do for us over the next 10 years also.
Here is a funny brief history of the Web shown during the keynote speech...
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