IE8 or IE.Next, Firefox 3 - a set of informations

A good source with loads of articles and info's about wishes and possible features to Microsoft's next Internet Explorer.

Even more information is available about FireFox 3.0 (codename Gran Paradiso), the growing concurrence for Microsoft's IE. Offline capabilities seems to be one of the key features. Here a sample.

Imaging having Browser-Versions of Spreadsheet, Word processing à la Google-Docs available for Online- and Offline-Usage....

Why a private user will be willing to pay for Microsoft Office Software?

"sys is undefined" in AJAX RTM on VISTA solved!

In an older post, I talked about the 'sys is undefined' problem with ASP.NET AJAX RC1.

Last week I updated my samples to RTM Version and ... the problem is gone without doing anything! neither configuration or code changes inside the samples nor configuration changes on vista.

Zattoo WebTV - Quality TV live on your laptop

Wow - Live TV for free (even without swiss-local Bilag fee)! Currently 40 Channels available.

Zattoo was founded in US in 2005 by Sugih Jamin, professor for computer science at the University of Michigan, and Beat Knecht, a swiss software product marketing professional and former McKinsey consultant in Silicon Valley.

Zattoo is a Peer-to-Peer IPTV-Service. The main goal is a fast loading, long running Live-Internet-TV for broadband users, broadcaster, content owners and advertisers.

"Advances in broadband, video compression, and multicast streaming technology are rapidly lowering the technical hurdles for Internet and television to merge on a PC. However, there is still the matter of cost. Our streaming network solves that problem by reducing broadcasters' costs by a factor of ten, making it compelling for them to switch to our technology and broaden their service offering," said Sugih Jamin, CTO and co-founder of Zattoo. "Also, Zattoo's proprietary P2P streaming technology ensures a video delivery and smoothness that has until now been impossible to achieve."

Personally, I was impressed by the quality. No interrupt during 30 minutes test and I was surfing throu the web in parallel (Internet-connection: 4000 kb/s download, 400 kb/s upload).

WPF/E - Vista Emulation

Extreme, extreme - impressive emulation of Windows Vista by slovenians (and in slovenian language...) based on WPF/E technique. Loads of javascript to manipulate XAML (View Source) thru the DOM.

http://www.vista.si/main.htm

Make sure to install the WPF/E PlugIn before running the emulation.

Paint.NET 3.0

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software . It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Paint.NET is written in C#, the Source Code is available.

Windows Vista - beneficial features

Some reasons to use Windows Vista (by Chris Sells). No all are obvious at first glance and easy to detect. That make this list invaluable.

WEF: Leaders get a taste of Web 2.0

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland) 2,400 leaders in business, politics and science do chat about the Future and Past in different areas.

They use accurate mediums to publish informations - a blog. Every participant - including Microsoft chairman Bill Gates - has been asked to post at least once, according to this article.

This afternoon, I followed the discussion about Web 2.0 with Leaders from Microsoft, Flickr, Nike, Fortune and more. The topic aimed less about technique and more about participation, community, sharing, individualization of content and services.... order your individual, unique styled Nike-Shoes... Customize your desktop and web... just be a part of it.

Web 2.0 is everywhere. And Web 3.0 is already on its way....

Update 2007 (WEF): Beyond Web 2.0 -- From Content to Collective Knowledge?

While social networks and community-oriented interactive sites, known as Web 2.0, continue to gain pace, the advent of Web 3.0 is already taking shape. In this Update, panellists (WEF) will discuss how a fundamental, technology-enabled "semantic Web" could develop over the coming four to five years, driven by hyper personalization coupled with advances in meta tagging and search, revolutionizing the way the knowledge is shared.

Hope, I will find the according WEF potcast.

WEF - Please don't mix it with Wresting Entertainement Federation :-)

List of Microsoft software codenames

Project 42, Rosetta, Starfighter, Thunder, Daytona, Metro, Omega, Istanbul, Kahona, Darwin, Monad, Aurora, Lone Start.... Guess the Products behind Microsoft codenames...

Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks exploit vulnerabilities in Web-based applications that fail to properly validate and/or encode input that is embedded in response data. Malicious users can then inject client-side script into response data causing the unsuspecting user's browser to execute the script code. The script code will appear to have originated from a trusted-site and may be able to bypass browser protection mechanisms such as security zones.

ASP.NET developers may wish to use the Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library to encode output. This library differs from other encoding libraries in that it uses the principle of inclusions and provides a high degree of protection against XSS attacks.

Learn more about the Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library
Download the Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library
Follow the tutorials

WPF/E Future - Textbox and other Controls

There are a lot of gadget-examples with WPF/E! Nice - but not more. Flash V. 1.0 :-)

WPF/E does not even contain a Textbox control at the moment. It is in a really early stage. So don't be disappointed. According to this thread, Microsoft is working on adding basic control (TextBox, Checkbox, ...) in the next CTP. Then we're getting closer to business needs.

"We'll also be providing "WPF/E" integration with .NET managed code next year" announced Scott Guthrie, which will bring WPF/E even one level higher (more c#, less javascript).

In the meantime, Tony Lombardo from Infragistics did realize a cool combo (WPF/E and MS AJAX) - a "WPF/E Textbox". Take a look. An enthralling technical chat about WPF and WPF/E to gain insights:

• http://www.sneath.org/tim/06_1220_msdn_wpf.doc