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I came across a number of web news reports that though unrelated indicate the massive technological changes that are occurring now and also going to sweep through our society over the coming years.
The machinations at Nokia are fascinating: When the previous CEO was regularly coming out with put downs targeting the Android platform, I was thinking “What planet is this guy on?”.
I just upgraded to the Infragistics 2007 Volume 1 release which includes support for a ribbon based user interface. It was annoying to come across this dialog during the installation: !Infragistics...
Yesterday's post contained an excerpt from the What's coming in ADO.NET video that I thought was great. In particular it was the thought that SOA is great technology but in the end is just plumbing.
When I first heard about WPF/E (WPF/Everywhere) it sounded like a waste of time. My interpretation was that it was just a XAML display engine with no support for .NET code.
It looks like there's a possibility of the .NET CLR being available for XBox 360 development. Check out these Microsoft blogger posts from Mike Zintel and David Weller.