MIX (Microsoft)
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MIX was a
On January 24, 2012, the official Microsoft blog stated that there will be no MIX 2012.
MIX 06
MIX 06 was held from March 20 to March 22, 2006. It focused on the new Internet Explorer 7 and WPF (a part called WPF/E later became known as Silverlight). It featured a keynote by Bill Gates in which he said "We need microformats".
MIX 07
MIX 07 was held from April 30 to May 7, 2007. The primary focus of the MIX 2007 was promoting Silverlight. The majority of the session content was focused on demonstrating Silverlight applications and the development tools used to build them. The main keynote, given by Scott Guthrie was also promoting Silverlight. Microsoft Expression Studio was also released to manufacturing thereafter.
reMIX Events
Along with the main conference in Las Vegas, several reMIX events were held throughout 2007 in other cities. The reMIX conferences represented the sessions from MIX with different keynote speakers.
MIX 08
MIX 08 was held from March 5–March 7, 2008. The first beta release of Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer 8 was demonstrated and contained many new features, including WebSlices and Activities.[2]
MIX 09
MIX 09 was held from March 18–20, 2009. Availability of the final version of
MIX 10
MIX 10 was held from March 15–17, 2010 in Las Vegas.[5] 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.[6] 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,
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.[8]
MIX 11
MIX 11 was held from April 12–14, 2011 at the
References
- ^ Tim O’Brien. "Thinking About Developer Events". Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- CNetBlogs. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
- ^ SDTimes.com Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Silverlight Website
- ^ "MIX11". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
- ^ "Windows Mobile 7 UI confirmed for MIX 2010 conference". Ditii.com. 2009-11-18. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ^ Network World MIX10 Day 1: Windows Phone developer tools now available. Retrieved on Jan. 3, 2011
- ^ Network World MIX10 Day 2: Windows Phone 7 browser based on "evolved" IE7 Retrieved on Jan. 3, 2011