The majority of the session content was focused on demonstrating Silverlight applications and the development tools used to build them.
The first beta release of Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer 8 was demonstrated and contained many new features, including WebSlices and Activities.
Availability of the final version of Internet Explorer 8 was announced, as well as a demonstration of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3.0 betas.
In addition, Microsoft said applications built using Silverlight 3 can run offline as well as in a Web browser.
Microsoft demonstrated a number of applications that had already been created to run on Windows Phone 7, including a news reader app from the Associated Press and an app called Seesmic for managing Twitter accounts and feeds.
Key features of the new browser are four-point multitouch functionality, zoom-in and zoom-out using a pinching finger gesture on the screen, and what Microsoft called "deep zoom" for high fidelity closeups.
[8] MIX 11 was held from April 12–14, 2011 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.