[MIX08] pre-conference day

Today march 4 was the MIX08 VIP pre conference “Together@MIX”. We had sessions and panels on the morning and an afternoon full of fun activities (I chose the Las Vegas Extreme rides!).

Here is the speakers and a bit of what they said:

Steve Guttman (PM for Expression Web)

• Expression branding


• Expression Web 2
  
  
  
  • PHP support (intellisense & syntax highlight, cassini for web server)
  
  
  • Photoshop layers support
  
  
  • ActiveX for Flash
  
  
  • AJAX


• Expression Encoder 2 “a real post-production tool”
  
  
  
  • lots of new features
  
  
  • XAML and video overlays
  
  
  • Edit player in Blend


• More at the keynote “I’ve been in Microsoft for years and the number of announcements at the keynote tomorrow is un-be-lie-vable !!”

Doug Olson

• Designer/Developer workflow


• Expression Studio 2 for April (focus on Silverlight)


• Expression Blend 2 (for Silverlight 1)


• Expression Design (XAML slice like Dreamweaver)

George Moore (GM Live Platform)

• Live Messenger API


• Silverlight Streaming


• Audience Analytics

Brad Abrams (ASP.NET Team)

• Silverlight ASP.NET control


• Silverlight Localization


• Silverlight 2 UI controls


• MVC sample app

Tim Sneath

• WPF
  
  
  
  • “WPF is the Ferrari, Silverlight is the Mini Cooper…”
  
  
  • Service Pack in september
  
  
  • Light .NET client install

Daniel Makoski (Interactive Design Manager for Surface)

• Microsoft Surface User Experience Team, or Microsoft Surface UX or Microsoft SUX…


• Very funny video on Surface “Big Ass Table” !

We had some keynote leaks today, but… let’s wait for tomorrow !

The afternoon was busy trying every roller coaster of Las Vegas !!!!