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The MIX08 conference is wrapping up in Las Vegas, Nevada. What is MIX08?

MIX is an ongoing conversation between web designers, developers, and business decision makers. We showcase topics and solutions that bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft perspectives, and emphasize the inclusive and participatory nature of the next web.

Presentations from Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie, Guy Kawasaki and Dean Hachamovitch are all available on this list. With all the demos someone was bound tidy up all the links, videos, and more. And without further ado, here is that collection by Sarah Perez of Sarah in Tampa!

The Ultimate Link List of Everything MIX!

This list has everything from downloads, keynotes and demos, interviews, and links from the MIX08 conference! So if you couldn’t make it, at least you catch up on it ;)

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I accidentally stumbled upon some links to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for both Vista and Windows XP. So without further ado, here are the links:

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download for Windows XP

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download for Windows Vista

More Versions of IE8

What’s New?

• Activities

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service.

An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user’s blog site with the selection already available in the edit field.

Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.

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I’ve been reading quite a few articles on Vista today, Microsoft’s latest operating system, which I’ve yet to switch to. Andy’s Blog clears up a few misconceptions about the Vista delay (it was delayed by 3 years). The article is great, but the first comment by Iain is awesomesauce!

However, I think it’s cost Microsoft a lot more than 3 years and however-much money: I believe it’s cost them revenue, in the form of customers. (Note: I’m not implying people have switched platforms — to what? — however many customers, particularly business ones, are more than content to continue to use XP… that’s essentially lost revenue, at least until either those users switch or MSFT release an OS that businesses DO want to use).

Perhaps part of the problem is that XP SP2 is so damn good (or at least more than adequate) for the average business user… and Vista’s such a jump in many ways.

He hits it on the mark for this consumer. I’m not switching because I’m content with XP. Everything works! Everything is compatible with it. I don’t have to wait for stability and security. Microsoft’s going to have to do better with Vista in order to get me to even consider switching to Vista. I bought my laptop off of EBay because I didn’t want to switch to Vista! There’s just no good reason to switch. And if you mention the graphics as a reason, my response is to check out WindowBlinds and the DeviantArt gallery for WB. Those are all the graphics I need. Or better yet, Google "Vista Transformation Pack".

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