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Silverlight GDR1 shipped just a few months after Silverlight 2 was released to web (RTW), with Microsoft claiming that it was nothing more than just a minor release. According to Tim Sneath, Silverlight 2 GDR1 was designed to bring to the table a few updates set up to resolve a number of issues reported to Microsoft ... |
20 February 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Microsoft released Silverlight 2 in mid-October 2008 and, five months later, an upgrade is available for download. Hundreds of millions of downloads later, users have the opportunity to update Silverlight 2 to the latest version available. In this regard, Silverlight 2 GDR 1 is now available as the successor of Silve... |
20 February 2009
03:09 GMT |
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In parallel with the development of its alternative for Adobe Flash, Microsoft is also catalyzing the evolution of a tool intimately connected with Silverlight. The Deep Zoom Composer is a solution designed to take the traditional digital photo viewing experience via the web to the next level with the help of Silverl... |
19 February 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is ready to pay top dollar for nothing short of a top game built with Silverlight 2. Via the Server Quest Developer Contest 2009, the Redmond company is offering Silverlight developers a chance to win no less than $5,000 cash, and to have their content featured in ServerQuest II, for a game put together usi... |
12 February 2009
05:16 GMT |
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In October 2008, Microsoft shipped the gold version of Silverlight 2, and the company moved onward with the development of its Flash killer. With Adobe having announced earlier this month that it accounted for record installations of Flash 10, revealing that the latest release of the technology was already deployed o... |
2 February 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Silverlight, Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash, has evolved to version 2 (available for download since mid-October 2008) on Windows and Mac OS X, with Moonlight trailing behind for Linux. Already reaching over one in four consumers worldwide, Silverlight's support for browser involves an official list ... |
23 December 2008
07:42 GMT |
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An updated version of the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2 is available for download since the end of the past week. Microsoft's Janete Kirupa revealed that the focus of the update was to deliver fixes for the bugs reported via user feedback. At the same time, the update, which went live on December 19, fixe... |
22 December 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Deep Earth is a project created at the intersection of Microsoft Virtual Earth, Silverlight 2, and open source. Hosted on the Redmond company's open source repository CodePlex, version 1.0 of Deep Earth is available for download as of December 17, 2008. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech evangelist... |
19 December 2008
09:18 GMT |
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With the launch of Silverlight 2 for Windows and Mac OS X, Microsoft applauded its alternative to Adobe Flash for the fast pace of adoption, indicating that the technology had been deployed on over one in four machines worldwide. With room to grow, Silverlight is gaining more and more traction, and an illustrative ex... |
4 December 2008
10:52 GMT |
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Deep Zoom, a feature based on technology developed by Microsoft, which allows for unprecedented zooming and panning capabilities of online images, is coming to Silverlight on Linux. Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux and Unix, will support Deep Zoom starting with Build Alpha of version... |
24 November 2008
13:11 GMT |
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In mid-October Microsoft made available for download the RTW (release to web) Build of Silverlight 2, and now the company is already looking forward to the next iteration of its Adobe Flash killer. Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform, revealed that Silverlight 3 was planned for ava... |
24 November 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration. Silverlight 2 was released to web in mid-October 2008, and, for next year, Microsoft is cooking the third release of what it is defining as a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-... |
18 November 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is indeed challenging the dominance of Adobe in the field of cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device plug-ins by supporting rich interactive applications and .NET based web experiences with Silverlight, but Flash is still the indisputable market leader. The ballet for the largest slice of the market ... |
15 October 2008
07:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving not only its cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device alternative to Adobe Flash to the next stage in evolution, but also the collection of solutions built around the plug-in. In this context, the delivery of the Silverlight 2 was accompanied by a range of offerings designed mainly for devel... |
14 October 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Microsoft announced the releasing to Web of Silverlight 2 on October 13, 2008, and the availability of the gold bits the subsequent day, on October 14. As promised, the Adobe Flash killer, namely Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device browser plug-in is now up for grabs. This is, of course, t... |
14 October 2008
07:32 GMT |
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Following the RTW stage of Silverlight 2, Microsoft has also made available for download a new version of Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1. Up until the bits for Silverlight 2 went gold, the Expression Blend 2 SP1 release on the Microsoft Download Center came with the Preview label. However, the Redmond giant has sc... |
14 October 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008. At the same time, users who have already deployed Silverlight 2 on their ma... |
13 October 2008
12:23 GMT |
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The start of August has brought along with it an update to the Deep Zoom Composer. According to Microsoft, the new version of the Deep Zoom Composer serves to resolve stability issues, to kick quality up a notch by delivering bug fixes and enhanced performance. Additionally, the new iteration of the solution delivers... |
4 August 2008
05:33 GMT |
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It will still be some time before Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in is able "to power" automobiles but not the same can be said about web-based automotive experiences. In fact, the latest version of Silverlight 2.0, namely Beta 2, released during the first week of June 2008, was... |
18 June 2008
10:11 GMT |
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The final version of Firefox 3.0 doesn't play well with the first version of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer. The faulty integration between Mozilla's latest iteration of the Firefox open source browser and Silverlight 1.0 is caused by a bug which has survived all the way into Firefox 3.0. Mozilla is aw... |
17 June 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is now available for download for Windows and Mac OS X. The Redmond company's cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in positioned as an equivalent of Adobe Flash, evolved to Beta 2 stage along with a range of solutions. In this respect, Microsoft is now offering not only Silve... |
9 June 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting to move Silverlight 2 forward with the next development milestone. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference in Orlando, that the second Beta for the plug-in would be made available to the general public by the end of this week.... |
3 June 2008
09:20 GMT |
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At its web-centric conference in Las Vegas - MIX08, Microsoft unveiled Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Along with the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie, and Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team, at this year's MIX, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Di... |
6 March 2008
06:46 GMT |
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