"Reaction [beta]"
Silverlight gathering momentum 1 May 2007
Microsoft released a number of significant upgrades to Silverlight yesterday, including integration with .NET and support for dynamic languages like Python and Ruby. For those that haven't heard, Silverlight is a product that enables developers to create interactive web applications. Or as Microsoft puts it: "a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web."
Could this spell the end for Adobe Flash?
[via Read/WriteWeb]
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4 comments so far
VF 1 May 2007 09:55 AM
You have to hand it to Microsoft, Silverlight looks to be one hell of a product.
As is pointed out in Read/WriteWeb's article, you can now build desktop applications with Windows Presentation Foundation, web applications with ASP.NET AJAX and hybrid Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight.
Adobe must have really pi$$ed Microsoft off ;)
Jimbo 1 May 2007 12:09 PM
Now all Adobe needs is for Google to start dipping its toes in the water...
Jan 1 May 2007 04:12 PM
It can only be a matter of time before Jakob Nielsen puts pen to paper and writes "Silverlight is 99% bad"!
Ed 5 May 2007 10:16 PM
It's not the end of Flash, Adobe has the now open-sourced Flex software, which is their take on it. Add that to Apollo, and you've got something that is much more usable than Silverlight.
Oh, and Flash 9/Flashlite works on a ton of platforms and products. Silverlight, well, not so much.