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The past two weeks I have been working long hours with a small band from Intergen on the Backstage With Office 2010 website. I can happily say that today Backstage went live with the unveiling of Microsoft Office 2010 ! Backstage is full of videos from the Office 2010 team who go behind the scenes of Office development and talk about what they have been busy working on since 2007. The main Backstage...
Chris Auld , Intergen director, and Reed Shaffner , Microsoft Office technical product manager, did a presentation at MIX09 showing off ButtercupReader . The mini breakout session was called Building Accessible RIAs in Microsoft Silverlight and focuses on Silverlight’s accessibility features. I have worked quite closely with Chris over the last few years on various projects and Reed and I presented...
For the second Mix in a row Intergen is launching a cool new Silverlight application: ButtercupReader ! ButtercupReader is a free Silverlight 2.0 application for viewing and playing digital talking books ( DAISY ) on the web by blind and partially sighted users. As well as using Silverlight to render text and play DAISY document audio, ButtercupReader also showcases many of Silverlight’s accessibility...
Over the last couple of months I have had the opportunity to work on an exciting project called TextGlow . TextGlow is a Silverlight 2.0 application for viewing Word 2007 documents on the Internet. With TextGlow it is possible to instantly view a document within a web page, with no Microsoft Office applications installed. Since Silverlight is cross platform the user doesn't even have to be running...
For the past few weeks I've been working on my first Silverlight project, an application called TrafficWarden. Essentially TrafficWarden lets you view and report on traffic information gathered from a router. For example if you want to find out how much bandwidth a local user has used, or see what times of the day have heavy internet usage, TrafficWarden shows you. I started working on it after buying...
