Friday 15 April 2011

Microsoft MIX11: IE10, Native HTML5, Windows Phone 7, Kinect SDK

Only four weeks after the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft unveiled the first platform preview of IE10 at MIX11 conference in Las Vegas.
During their MIX11 conference now under way in Las Vegas, Microsoft has made a number of announcements and demonstrated a preliminary version of Internet Explorer 10 (Platform Preview) on an ARM processor powered computer.
In his April 12 keynote opening, outlined Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vise president of Internet Explorer, how the next version of Microsoft's browser is based on the performance breakthroughs and deep native HTML5 support provided in IE9.
The IE10, Microsoft declared that they want to capitalize on the benefits of IE9 and built-in support for HTML5, while integrating additional standards such as CSS3.
With this investment, Microsoft is leading the adoption of HTML5 with a long term commitment to the standards process, said Hachamovitch.
This will especially be the case for CSS3 CSS3 Transitions and 3D Transform is expected of developers.
It's great to be here with those who build Web and the developers, he said in greeting the crowd.
A new platform Preview will be published every 12 week, so developers can test their applications, although Microsoft did not want to specify a launch date for the final version of IE10.During the first day of MIX11, has also made announcements about the Windows Azure platform, with particular to provide safe access and open web applications using identity providers such as Facebook and Google (besides Microsoft).
Hachamovitch also drove home the importance of indigenous technology.
Developers: Windows 7.5 Phone, Kinect for Windows and Silverlight 5The statement made during the second day of MIX11 was mostly related to Windows Phone.
Native experiences are the best experiences, he said.
According to a recent IDC study, Windows Phone will become the second most popular smartphone OS in 2015, ahead of IOS, but far behind Android.
Internet Explorer 10 will push the boundaries of what developers can do on the net additional
The agreement with Nokia will greatly help his presence, this also leads to an increasing interest being taken by the developers.
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According to Microsoft's figures, Windows 7 Phone 38 000 registered developers and close to 13 000 applications available.
Join Hachamovitch on stage to demonstrate some of the power and progress in IE10, showed Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, some of the new features of IE10 and how it compares with competing browsers, such as Google Chrome
In May, a new development kit allow for the free development of applications for the first 7.5 Windows Phone engine that is scheduled for release by the end of the year.
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Application concepts that Spotify has also been unveiled, while the popular game that Angry Birds will be available from May 25
During the second day of MIX11, demonstrated the software giant's next version of Windows phone operating system, and delivered a beta of Kinect Windows SDK (Software Development Kit) and Silverlight Beta 5
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The Skype program is scheduled for release this fall
Microsoft also announced that with the upcoming release of Windows phone, the company will provide developers with more hardware capabilities, better browsing, and better tools, and expanded opportunities, and Windows Marketplace Phone Options
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Another announcement made at MIX11 was that a beta version of the SDK Kinect for Windows has been confirmed for launch in spring
In addition, Microsoft announced that developers will soon have access to updated Windows Phone Developer Tools
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This SDK will integrate the skeleton detection to see if one or two people are in Kinect vision, audio capabilities with a four-piece microphone with background noise and echo reduction, identification of a sound source and integration with Windows voice recognition API's
These enhanced tools include appearances profiles and sensor simulation, allowing developers to build more integrated and high performance apps
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A three dimensional camera will also be present to measure the distance between an object and sensor Kinect
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Already expected, the latest announcement comes the release of a beta version of Silverlight 5, which brings with it new possibilities: hardware video decoding, Trick Play that allows you to play different videos to make audio patches and a XNA-based interface for viewing 3D applications
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