There we are at the end of the first day of MIX 2009. From all the news we have heard round all day, the most heartening part came from a group of three - Kevin McEntee, Perkins Miller and Scot Guthrie. All of three were speaking about close future of Web design, development and online streaming. The online streaming part was carried out mostly by Kevin McEntee (Netflix president of Web Engineering). He gave out some interesting figures, for instance, number of people who were willing but could not become Netflix customers because they were using Macs is no less than whopping 20 percent of all, and what’s more, another 20 percent didn’t update their Netflix player by reinstalling it. Luckily that is all in the past now and brings us neatly to the headliner of the day - Microsoft Silverlight 3.McEntee’s speech was entirely dedicated to how Silverlight resolves Netflix’s problems and allows new moves for further enhancements, etc. The announced Silverlight 3 is going to be even greater than most of us expected. Firstly, MS have actually prepared a beta version of the third plugin generation which is quite capable and will only go thru one upgrade to its final version. That is going to be pretty soon hopefully. Then we’ve found out that Siverlight 3 will also be a developer’s tool - users are allowed to write programs for both Mac and PC. And finally Perkins Miller from NBC promised 720p from Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 also via Silverlight.
