Web 2.0 Journal contributing editor Kate Allen (pictured) reports, direct
from MIX06 in Las Vegas: At the MIX06 keynote presentation by Bill Gates,
Gates asked two companies to come out and show what they’re doing to
provide “rich user experience” (always avoiding the term Web
2.0).
As a side note, I’m at an identity discussion and I’ve noticed
that the subtext to MIX06 is “the next web now”- how Web 2.0 is
that?
Anyhow, back to the keynote session, which you can stream. Gates invited Aber
Whitcomb of MySpace, who was surprisingly positive about Microsoft as a
platform. MySpace.com has 65 millions and is signing up 250,000 new users a
day. They have just been ranked as #2 of all websites for the number of hits,
surpassing Google, MSN, etc. Amazing! They use SQL server and ASP.NET. To
show how powerful Microsoft is as a plat... (more)
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Bill Gates gave the keynote presentation that framed Mix06 for the next few
days, which is really about the “web experience” and
“beyond the browser”. He said the world is changing and should
be more user centric rather than device centric. He discussed users’
experiences from the perspective of the computer, the media center, and
mobile devices.
He announced that IE7 has been re-released today, Beta 2. “IE7 is
coming”. Bill Gates predicted that “IE7 is so powerful that most
hardware will ship with it”. He said, as a mea culp... (more)
Kate Allen is a Software Consultant to Federal and private sector clients. Kate is an IT Project Manager with experience in both commercial software and in-house application development. In addition to Project Management and Enterprise Application Implementations, Kate follows, studies, and writes about Web 2.0 and the changes Web 2.0 is bringing to IT. She is also working on a book about Web 2.0 for Addison-Wesley.
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