Moonlight 2.0 beta 1 released
It has been a long wait but the first beta of Moonlight 2.0 is finally out.
Moonlight is the implementation of Microsoft Silverlight technology for the Linux platform.
Moonlight 2.0 is aimed to bring Silverlight 2 technology support to Linux.
Incidentally, Microsoft has already released a couple of versions of Silverlight 3 for [...]
Microsoft starts talking about Silverlight 3
Microsoft is likely to talk about their upcoming update to Silverlight technology at the upcoming Mix09 conference in Las Vegas this week.
Microsoft Silverlight 3 could be a topic of discussion at this event along with Visual Studio 2010 IDE, the Azure Services Platform for cloud computing and Expression Web.
Market [...]
Presidential Inaugural to be streamed using Microsoft Silverlight
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are to be sworn in and deliver inauguration speeches next Tuesday in Washington DC.
These events would be broadcast online on the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s Web site.
The technology to be used for this broadcast would be Microsoft Silverlight. [...]
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 released
Microsoft has released the second version of their Silverlight technology which competes with Adobe Flash for interactive components on the web.
The company said that the second version of Silverlight is designed to further enhance the usability of this browser plug-in.
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 comes with improved support for web video in addition [...]
Moonlight released for Linux
The developers behind the Moonlight project have now made available the first public release for download.
Moonlight is the Linux implementation of the Microsoft’s Silverlight technology which is officially available only on Windows and Macs.
Microsoft Silverlight has been designed for Rich Internet Applications and provide an alternative for Adobe Flash platform.
The developers said [...]
Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta is out
Microsoft has now made available the beta version of their Silverlight 2 application. The company has also just released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 web browser.
These two applications have been released at the ongoing Mix08 conference in Las Vegas.
Microsoft said that the version 2 of their Silverlight technology [...]
Adobe releases AIR 1.0 and Flex 3 platforms
Software giant Adobe has announced the release of their AIR 1.0 and Flex 3 platforms.
The company said that these platforms provide tools, frameworks, services, servers and runtimes.
Both of these technologies are designed to provide developers capabilities to create rich Internet applications.
They combine the power of web with [...]
Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta coming up next
Microsoft’s Adobe Flash killer Silverlight is being developed at a rapid pace. The company is almost done with the beta of the second version of this browser add-on.
The company said in a statement that the second version focuses on emphasized RIA (rich Internet application) development capabilities.
Sources say that the [...]
