May 30th, 2008 — OSX
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.
September 8th, 2007 — OSX, Silverlight, Video, WPF
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.
August 18th, 2007 — OSX, Silverlight
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.
