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Wow, what an exciting week this is! In fact, I'm having trouble waiting for all the info that will come our way tomorrow.
Why tomorrow, you might ask? Well, Mix'08 is starting in Las Vegas in just a few hours. And as expectec, a lot of great info and visions will be shared, mostly during the big opening keynote.

A little further in this post, I have collected some info I managed to find already. Some of the things we'll see being announced tomorrow will greatly expand the possibilities we as webdevelopers/designers have. In fact, the web is wide open, the oppurtunities coming are way are endless.

One of, if not THE biggest announcement tomorrow, will of course be Silverlight 2.0 beta. A great toolset will make it much easier to create next-gen UX for the web. Datagrids will be on the rendez-vous, whom are still missed in WPF however. Today, Nokia announced the availability of Silverlight on their (Symbian) smartphones, so it's a guess, but I think we'll see more on a mobile version of Silverlight tomorrow (as I said, it's a guess...)

I managed to find some info on Expression too... Expression Studio V2 is coming this April appearantly, if we can already believe the rumors. Laurent Bugnion has more info on that on his blog.

And if you're not in Vegas, do use the possibilites of the web to take a look at the future! The opening keynote will be broadcast live (750kbps, 300kbps, 100kbps) at 9:30am Pacific / 5:30pm GMT. Microsoft also made a promise that all sessions will be downloadable within 24 hours! That means, start your download engines, go get soms sleep today, as you won't be having any time to go to bed once all this info is online!

Stay tuned for more Mix info on Snowball.be!