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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...

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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...

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Wellington Dot User Group meeting this evening for my presentation on Silverlight 2.0. We were close to standing room only, which is an indicator of the great interested within the local .NET community around Silverlight. If you are interested in developing with Silverlight, then http://www.silverlight.net is the one stop shop to help you get started. Silverlight... More Posts Next page »