Windows Vista music is contagious. Well, actually it is music that has been used for Windows Vista back when the operating system was still in development and referred to with the code-name Longhorn. But one way or the other Windows Vista is inspiring a range of Microsoft products and Silverlight is simply an excellent example. Just because it was freshly unveiled by the Redmond Company the past week.

Silverlight, formerly known as the Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere is a Microsoft product designed as a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in that will enable rich online interactive applications. Microsoft has even set up a Silverlight website where the Light Up the Web video welcomes visitors. Users can either click it to watch, download a high definition variant or simply press play on the video embedded at the bottom of this article from YouTube.

Thanks to a heads up from Sean Alexander, the Microsoft director responsible for the development of Silverlight, Long Zheng has pointed out the similarities between the Silverlight Light Up the Web video and the Windows Longhorn Rock Video presented at PDC 2003. And there is no doubt that the source of the music is the same, namely the Go song authored by Andy Hunter. The Soapbox video at the bottom will offer you a comparison in this respect.

And on an unrelated note, the Silverlight Downloads page offers aside from a Community Technology Preview of the product a collection of wallpapers for various resolutions. Silverlight Dusk and Silverlight Dawn are available for both wide and standard screens.




Video: Longhorn rock video