MIX is a Microsoft conference held annually for web developers and designers at which Microsoft showcases upcoming web technologies. The conference is held each Spring at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Unlike many of Microsoft's technical conference, MIX has been promoted more heavily to designers by inviting popular speakers from other popular web design conferences, such as SXSW, and has sponsored a CSS design contest each year to promote the conference. Microsoft has also used this conference as an opportunity to promote new web design and development tools such as Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Studio.
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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.[1]
MIX 09
MIX 09 will be held from March 18–20, 2009. Availability of the final version of Internet Explorer 8 will be announced, as well as a demonstration of Silverlight 3.
References
- ^ Mary Jo Foley. "IE 8 to feature WebSlices, Activities". CNet Blogs. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1241. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.