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Marc Jacobs speaks with John Lam about IronRuby and DLR


Daniel Chait speaks with James Pratt about the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8


Here are Mix09, for some reason they thought it was a good idea to set up a stage and invite attendees to play Rock Band in public. Right outside the press work room, where I spend most of my time here. And, they turn it up loud!

All of us in the press work room have agreed, no civilian should be legally allowed to sing anything by Alice in Chains, Queen, or the Chili Peppers in public. Surely the Obama administration can do something about this.

At Mix I had the opportunity to test out the Microsoft Arc Mouse:

It's a geniunely nice product - comfortable, solid feeling (it feels weighty for its size) and clever (folds up nicely and has a magnetic dock for its USB dongle).

From my perspective, there is no more important product release previewed at MIX09 than Expression Blend 3.

As you can see below, I saw someone wearing a t-shirt here at Mix09 that reads, "I'm Not Slacking Off. My Code's Compiling":

Clearly this guy is not using PowerShell or the DLR!

One of the most talked-about developments at the Microsoft Mix09 conference has been SketchFlow.

Microsoft Silverlight 3 is shaping up to be a very impressive release. While Silverlight 1.0 was a relatively narrow-purpose release, relevant mostly to streaming content delivery on the web, Silverlight 2.0 delivered a workable general purpose, cross-platform programming environment that leveraged the growing skills of .NET/WPF developers. But Silverlight 2.0 lacked many features and controls that WPF developers depended on, and it violated the WPF subset principle that Microsoft had set for itself to ensure that Silverlight applications could cross-compile with WPF.

 Scott Guthrie put up a few slides at today's MIX09 keynote showing some interesting adoption data for Microsoft Silverlight.