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With MIX09 fast approaching, Microsoft is expected to announce few goodies in the conference, happening in Las Vegas this Wednesday. So here is my prediction on what Microsoft may announce this year:

Internet Explorer 8 RTM
Silverlight 3 Beta
Windows Azure platform announcements, updates
More details on Visual Studio 2010. Not sure whether there would be any public beta

Microsoft demoed IE 8 in the last year's MIX event and IE 8 RC1 was released in January 2009. A week ago, Microsoft released a video to show that IE 8 is on par in speed with its competitive browsers, namely Firefox and Google Chrome.

IE8 Performance

Make sure you don't miss the MIX09 keynote address by Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer, on Thursday which is about the future of Internet Explorer.

Stay tuned for more updates regarding MIX09 announcements. In the meantime, you can check out the MIX09 website and the sessions. You can also download the MIX09 conference guide to get more details on the agenda, sessions, labs and workshops.

(2 replies) #1 skynetXrules on 17 Mar 2009 - 23:09

i just hope they change there mind and compile silverlight in x86-64

#1.1 GP007 on 17 Mar 2009 - 23:26

Maybe for version 3? We'll have to wait and see.

#1.2 Eldoen on 17 Mar 2009 - 23:57

GP007 said,

already been stanted that silverlight 3 will not have a 64 bit version.

Although other things to add to list. Blend 3.0 preview. more than likely bits. already been convirmed of bits for silverlight 3. just not entirely what has been updated.

Hopeing new bits for vs2010, but next bits for vs2010 are beta

(1 reply) #2 Lt-DavidW on 17 Mar 2009 - 23:42

Wow, it seems like only a few years ago MIX06 was here.

#2.1 pauldr777 on 18 Mar 2009 - 00:52

07 08 09 Yup it was just a few years ago....

Sorry I had to, I'm excited to see what they discuss though

(3 replies) #3 ilaugh on 18 Mar 2009 - 00:21

I don't understand why, but IE 8 RC1 is painfully slow on Vista, but lightning fast on Windows 7.. Why!?

#3.1 Chaks on 18 Mar 2009 - 00:55

Not sure about that. It looks to be same for me in both Vista and Windows 7

#3.2 Airlink on 18 Mar 2009 - 09:45

To drive adoption of Windows 7?

#3.3 stezo2k on 18 Mar 2009 - 10:02

probably because windows vista is slower than 7 :p

#4 Omen1393 on 18 Mar 2009 - 00:49

Probably because IE 8 is built into Windows 7? I'm not sure though.

#5 JonathanMarston on 18 Mar 2009 - 02:19

I'm hoping for alot more about Visual Studio 2010 - a public beta would be nice :-)

Although it's MIX and the focus will obviously be more towards Silverlight, I wouldn't mind more info on what's to come for WPF in .NET 4. Having been a major player in the design and development of the WPF app my company is pushing out soon I can say that although I'm generally happy with WPF, there's definately room for alot of improvement. I really haven't been so concerned with Silverlight lately since we aren't working on any big web projects right now...

#6 Pandya on 18 Mar 2009 - 07:51

Pretty stoked on Silverlight 3.0 and VS2010

#7 Dane on 18 Mar 2009 - 14:33

I can't wait for ie.

#8 Quikboy on 18 Mar 2009 - 22:26

I want some more WPF news as well. I hope Siverlight 3 offers more extras.

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