On November 18, 2009, the day all geeks touched down in LA to become a part of PDC (Professional Developers Conference), Microsoft was in a rush to unveil the beta version of Silverlight 4. It’s been 4 month since Microsoft presented Silverlight 3 and now we are witnessing the 4’s issue release. The motives for Microsoft’s accelerated cross-platform development are shaded. Is it a well-planned project of upgrading web application framework with a glace of web-developers and web-designers’ feedbacks, or is it simply a marketing trick to make Silverilght a household word – we really find it hard to answer. The best way to reveal the truth is to analyzing of “what’s so fresh” in Silverlight 4 beta. (more…)
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Silverlight 4 beta release!Microsoft accelerates production
Monday, November 30th, 2009Microsoft To Team With Intel
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009In its attempts to implement Silverlight RIA technology into vatiety of platforms, Microsoft teamed up with world’s largest semiconductor chip maker Intel to announce Silverlight to be run on Intel Atom-Based systems preferentially on Moblin OS (open-source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and nettops).
According to Intel’s officials Moblin will support Silverlight 3. During a keynote address at the event, Renee James, Intel’s corporate vice president and general manager of the company’s Software and Services Group, and Ian Ellison-Taylor, Microsoft’s general manager for Client Platforms and Tools, announced the news of negotiations over Moblin’s enhancement with SIlverlight being set with Microsoft. The demonstrated. Also the speech gradually turned into presentation of IIS Smooth Streaming on Atom-based devices running both Windows 7 and Moblin.
In addition Silverlight was stated to be one of the technologies supported in Intel’s recently announced Atom Developer Program.