Microsoft Ultimately Launches Silverlight 1.0
Today, Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 1.0 which may prove a big rival for Flash.
For those who dont know ,Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.
Microsoft today also officially partnered with novell to deliver moonlight as the silverlight implementation for linux.
Till the date,Microsoft has also released various Silverlight powered applications that include Live Station, Popfly and Tafiti.
Microsoft will also be launching other products which include Omnicom’s Media Preview TV,Major League Baseball,Halo 3 Videos on MSN ,AOL Social Mail Gadget for Vista Sidebar,World Wrestling Entertainment Player etc.For a complete list visit Silverlight Showcase.
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