4. Internet Explorer IE9 released March 2011 “Native HTML5” “people consistently choose native apps over web sites” “every abstraction between your site and the device challenge the experience” “the only native experience of HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9” Windows 7 & IE9 enable HTML5 sites to push the boundaries http://www.beautyoftheweb.com
5. IE10 Preview & HTML5 Labs http://ietestdrive.com http://html5labs.com Prototypes of experimental or unstable specs Prove site-readiness before they go into IE CSS3 Gradients CSS3 Grid, Flexbox ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode
7. Language Support Now supporting 16 more languages 世界您好 Γεια σου κόσμε Moimaailma Всем привет ハローワールド Hej världen Olámundo Hellóvilág Hallo mensen Hallo, verden Cześć ludzie Hej verden 전 세계 여러분 안녕하세요 Ahojsvěte
8. capability HTML5 via IE9 on the phone same core engine as the desktop hardware accelerated UX improved panorama and pivot live tiles – multiple, animated, more update mechanisms access ring tone settings
9. capability core sockets built-in SQL database more launchers & choosers access to the contacts and calendar Silverlight 4 sensors raw camera access compass support (& gyro in the future) performance & graphics improvement
10. capability multi-tasking fast application switching OS implements common multi-tasking scenarios (audio, download, alarms etc) live agents for background code without damaging battery life/UX tools emulator adds accelerometer control emulator adds location simulation profiling support in the (free) phone tools
12. Silverlight 5 beta released at MIX11 tooling for Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 Expression Blend Preview for SL 5 highlights 3D API offering direct GPU access PInvoke support trusted applications in the browser debug your data bindings will release in 2011
14. tools/frameworks Nuget find, download, use libraries in Visual Studio jQuery highlighted MS jQuery plugins MVC3 tools update available EF 4.1, HTML5, jQuery1.5, Scaffolding tooling also adding Modernizr Orchard CMS new release V1.1
16. Kinect SDK for Windows Kinect is the fastest selling electronic device (ever) with 10 million devices Windows SDK coming later this Spring both managed and native code initially with a non-commercial license
18. Windows Azure Release V2 of the Windows Azure Access Control Service Release of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service Preview of Windows Azure Content Delivery Network for IIS Smooth Streaming Preview of Windows Azure Traffic Manager route traffic to different data centres based on locality
20. Windows Azure Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone Support and tooling for ACS 2.0 Push notifications Windows Azure Queues SQL Azure REST api’s Multiple servers JDBC Driver DAC Framework Codename “Austin”, StreamInsight as a service