MIX 10
MIX 10 was held from March 15–17, 2010 in Las Vegas. The main focus of MIX 10 was on the next version of Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer 9, and Microsoft's highly anticipated next-generation mobile platform, Windows Phone 7. Microsoft's Silverlight technology also had a large appearance at the conference, as it has for the last few years at MIX.
On the first day of MIX 2010, Microsoft released a number of software development toolkits for Windows Phone 7 application developers to use, including a Silverlight 4 multimedia toolkit, for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and a beta release of Microsoft Expression Blend 4, a GUI-designed and code-generating toolkit. The tools will run inside Windows PC Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft demonstrated a number of applications that had already been created to run on Windows Phone 7, including a news reader app from the Associated Press and an app called Seesmic for managing Twitter accounts and feeds.
On day two of MIX 2010, Microsoft presented details on the Web browser that will go into Windows Phone 7, explaining that it will be based on the Internet Explorer 7 desktop browser and will replace the IE Mobile 6 browser that was included in Windows Mobile 6.5, the predecessor to the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Key features of the new browser are four-point multitouch functionality, zoom-in and zoom-out using a pinching finger gesture on the screen, and what Microsoft called "deep zoom" for high fidelity closeups.
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