Entries Tagged 'OSX' ↓

It seems that Microsoft is running a closed Beta of Live Mesh for OSX. When I visit my Mesh I see this:

Anyone have an invite? If so please let me know. I’d love to try it out.

According to BetaNews the public beta of Moonlight, a Silverlight runtime for Linux that is part of the Mono project, will be released within the next several days.

In the next stage of what has turned out to be a more successful project than even its creators envisioned, the public beta of Moonlight — a runtime library for Linux supporting sites that expect Silverlight — is expected within days.

Earlier this week The New York times released Time Reader Beta for Mac. This is a port of the WPF application that is currently available for PC.

The New York Times Reader lets you download full editions of the NYT to your desktop where you can browse the contents offline in a newsprint format.

Microsoft bought an island in Second Life, they’ve named it Visual Studio island.

Several Weeks ago Brad Abrams hosted a presentation about Silverlight for MAC from this virtual world. He has since made the Power Point slides and media available for download.

Don’t miss the videos showing Silverlight Media on MAC, and Silverlight RIA’s on MAC.

According to this blog post on the Netflix community site. Steve, who says he’s in charge of instant watching on Netflix, is hinting at using Silverlight to get around DRM issues on OSX.

A key issue for delivering movies online is that the studios require use of DRM (Digital Rights Management) to protect titles. And that’s our holdup for the Mac - there’s not yet a studio-sanctioned, publicly-available Mac DRM solution (Apple doesn’t license theirs). I can promise you that, when an approved solution becomes available for the Mac, we’ll be there. I’ll also say that Silverlight 1.1 looks like a promising candidate - but that its DRM isn’t likely to be fully available until 2008.