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Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux via Moonlight

The head of the Mono project Miguel de Icaza has announced that they would be previewing an open source Linux-based port of Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in.

Microsoft Silverlight was launched by Microsoft at Microsoft’s MIX07 conference earlier this year and this is the Microsoft challenger to the dominating Adobe Flash format on the web.

Silverlight 1.1 is part of the .Net Framework and it enables the web browsers to run multimedia and rich applications.

Microsoft had planned to support the Windows and Mac platforms with preview plugins launched for both these platforms.

Mono developers said that it took them 21 days to code this open source Linux-based port of Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in.

They are going to display it at the European version of MIX07.

Checkout: Microsoft Silverlight | Moonlight