I'd like to share some links from MIX09 that might interest some of you.

Silverlight 3 SDK

Silverlight Runtime for Mac beta

Expression Blend 3 preview

Expression Web 3 super-preview

At the center stage of the annual MIX 2009 developer and designer conference, Microsoft throws Silverlight 3 at Adobe which transfers the RIA giants battle to the next level. Microsoft claimed that the Silverlight 3 player will be no more than 4.4MB.

Among the new features of Silverlight 3 is the ability to tap a computer's graphics processor to offer hardware acceleration of the video (both PC and Mac). The company is expected to make the beta version of Silverlight 3 available later on Wednesday, with some pieces of the product already having made their way onto the Web. (Update: Microsoft has officially announced the beta of Silverlight 3.)

 It is known that Flash Player has much higher penetration rate than Silverlight. However, it looks like the Microsoft is gaining more than Adobe in the RIA battle. It looks like only time can tell who will eventually prevail.

Im sure we all have collectivly drooled over the first released videos of this AMAZING !!!!!!!! divice over a year ago but thought that this cant be as wide spread as they have predicted.

but behold the first real word uses have begon to emerge, of wich I have collected some videos of for your enjoyment:

• At BMW Stores

•  At the sheraton hotel

• At AT&T Stores

Mono is a project led by Novell to create .NET compatible runtime, tools and utilities to develop and run .NET applications in various Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, BSD and Others.

 It has also IDE called MonoDevelop and has also many active projects like Moonlight (Microsoft's Compatible Silverlight).

 In 2006, Microsoft and Novell announced a joint agreement whereby Microsoft agreed to not sue Novell which gives a green light to Mono Project.

 Give it a look it is relay worth to try www.mono-project.com

YouOS is an amazing Web-Desktop interface that uses Javascript to communicate with remote server and make you fell like working on workstation or Operating System capable to save state.It has more than 600 applications have been developed by using YouOS API and IDE.

YouOS was chosen to be the 7th in PC World's list "The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year" on 2006.

take it live at http://www.youos.com

Singularity is a Microsoft Research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable operating system which mean Kernel, Drivers and Applications written in managed code using C# and C# extra extensions.

Questions might arise in our minds: Is it possible that Microsoft will replace Windows with Singularity? What make it different from Windows? Is because it was build from scratch or have more to offer than Windows?

Any way you could try it but be careful it is classified under research and don't expect Windows like graphics.

Official home page