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Do you want to know Microsoft web strategy in Korea? It's chance that The ReMIX Korea was held on June. 19th by Microsoft Korea. Remix is after event in the world sharing local experiences and results of Mix 2007 in Vegas of this year. Especially it was free for all IT industry people, so over 800 people was attended this event. This event is very similar format with MIX 07 to avoid formal type. It gave various program such as talk show, panel discussion and meetup of attendance with speaker The main agenda of this event was Microsoft Sliverlight too. Mr. ...

Today 72 hours conversations was started between Microsoft and Web in Las Vegas. Ray Ozzie, a keynote speaker of Mix07 turned over all of his best cards of "service softwares for user experience" to be prepared. I saw all of keynote and demonstrations via 500kb live streaming in my home in Korea, and felt fresh changes of Microsoft again after Microsoft Tech Summit in the last month. The most remarkable thing is that you could see both Windows and Mac OS X as well Firefox and Safari in almost of demonstrations. It seems that Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta was very ...

Microsoft's Mix07 is coming soon. In last Microsoft Tech Summit, Loke Uei and Clark Butler showed a demonstration of QR code with Windows Mobile to guide conference rooms in Mix07. If you participate in Mix07, you've better learn it.

It's the third day at last. For me, there was the most waited time "Internet Explorer and direction" as one of web standards evangelists and Firefox developers. In draft agenda, it was written in IE8 and direction by Molly. But, Pete LePage, a product manager of IE team leaded talk with participators. By saying of Pete, Molly could not join this meeting because of speaking on AEA Boston. He said there are some product managers on product part such as security, web developer tool and same structure of product development part by Chris Wilson. I asked how many people ...

It's 2nd. day for MTS07. First session is Michael Howard's, 15years security guy in Microsoft. He introduced Security Development Lifecycle in MS and some of educational courseworks. My interest is out of security in software development. Please check out summary articles of Ben Galbraith, Bryan Hansen and Travisswicegood. Next, it's my favorite session by Sam Ramji about OSS at Microsoft that I already wrote. And Sanjay Parthasarathy, CVP of Developer and Platform Evangelism gave a speech about Microsoft's evangelism for long time since 1995. He introduced Channel 10 for power customers with Channel 9 for all of developers. Please check out summary ...

Also there is very interesting session about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) by Celso Gomes, Designer. He introduced the first preview of Windows Expression Blend. Despite there are a few designer, he excellently demoed Blend to us. He gave the step-by-step tutorial to make 2D and 3D animation and slideshow with Microsoft Expression Blend. The demo clips is now available captured by me. In my thought, it seems to be a mix of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The user interface is very free and smooth to treat behavior of design objects. He said it's important separation between designers and developers. As you ...

IIS7 guys, Bill Staples and Carlos Aguilar revealed Apache-like module written c# code, Tomcat-like configuration based on XML and light-weight web server. It's big changes after IIS6 in 2003, in fact so late. They gave a demonstration of creating an IIS7 module with 40 lines of C# code. So it had already over 30 managed modules over native functions of IIS6. All of the configurations and logs are XML editable in notepad or XML editor, but also offered equivalent of existing user interface. You can read in detail galbraiths and travisswicegood. I was excited to see PHP performance on IIS7. It ...

It was most favorite session to me. Sam Ramji of OSS Lab introduced activities of his lab and colleagues. You can see his dialog with attendees in detail. Firstly He said “In 1995, Microsoft was the company that missed the Internet. In 2005, I don’t think you could say that. It was the company that missed open-source. In 2015, I don’t think you’re going to be able to say that. That’s my vision and the timeline I’m working on.” I want to do that. Sam emphasized interoperablity between Windows Platform and various open source softwares. Most of customers have felt ...