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Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Flash Player 9 penetration statistics, Microsoft's Ajax technology goes to Beta 2, James Ward presents Flex widgets and Kevin Lynch talks about where Adobe is going.
- Flash Player 9 penetration statistics are out. It is at 35.9% in the "mature markets" which, according to Emmy Huang, is on pace with Flash Player 8 (which is at 89.1%). I expected this number to be higher, because MySpace began requiring FlashPlayer 9 for all of their visitors. Not everyone does the MySpace thing, but I still thought we'd see a bump.
- Microsoft's "Atlas", err… ASP.NET AJAX… went into Beta 2 yesterday. Usually I don't pay a lot of attention to Ajax technologies, but I after talking to folks at Microsoft, I think this is worth tracking because of possible synergies between it and Windows Presentation Foundation. I covered Atlas back in August.
- James Ward, one of Adobe's Flex Evangelists, gave a presentation on Flex Widgets at the WidgetsLive! Conference yesterday. I have a couple of widget-related posts coming up soon, and while I'm skeptical of anyone starting a business based on widgets, I think they are an interesting way to abstract information and there Rich Internet Technologies are a good fit in that space.
- Kevin Lynch, Adobe's Chief Software Architect, has an article over at Sys-Con which talks about Adobe's plans for the future and how Apollo and Flex fit into that. It is good insight into the course that Adobe is charting.