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Version history of Flex from 1.0 to Gumbo

Here is an another list for Adobe Flex lovers,

Version

Released

Comments

Flex 1.0

March 2004

Code name “Royale”, thanks to FlashGen

Flex 1.5

October 2004

Flex 2.0 (Alpha)

October 2005

Flex 2 was codenamed “Zorn”. Thanks to Josh

Flex 2.0 (Beta 1)

February 2006

Flex 2.0 (Beta 2)

March 2006

Flex 2.0 (Beta 3)

May 2006

Flex 2.0 Final

June 28, 2006

Flex SDK [...]

Microsoft using Flash in place of Silverlight

While searching net I come to know about Microsoft Mojave, the Mojave Experiment. Surprisingly Microsoft is using Flash in place of Silverlight for the presentations.
 
Seems even Microsoft knows who is the leader

Wrox Press Announces Silverlight 1.0 Book

Microsoft just released Silverlight in September, a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering media experiences and interactive applications for the Web. A direct competitor to Adobe’s market dominant Flash application, Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, Visual C#, Visual Basic, and other languages. Developers are lining up to get started with Silverlight [...]

Microsoft Increases Hotmail Storage to 5 GB

VIA various news Sources

Microsoft Corp. will soon let users of its Hotmail service store 5 gigabytes of photos and other e-mail messages, more than double the previous limit. In todays scenario where big giants are providing Mail space upto 2 GB’s Hotmail has just doubled the capacity. Of course, only a small number of Hotmail [...]

Microsoft’s HD Photo Format Soon to Become a Standard

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that they had submitted their specs to Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) and they are  considering standardization of the company’s HD Photo file format. Tentatively titled “JPEG XR,” HD Photo was introduced with the release of Windows Vista.

Microsoft Announces Second Beta of Visual Studio 2008 with SilverLight 1.0 and .Net 3.5

Microsoft announced the availability Thursday of the second beta version of its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 developer tools and the last version of its Silverlight rich media software code before the final version ships.
The second version of VS 2008, which is still scheduled to ship before the end of the year, includes a Silverlight add-in [...]

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