"Microsoft rebooted the web": Silverlight announcements

   On Monday, April 30, Microsoft made several announcements regarding
its Silverlight platform at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas.

   About these announcements, Robert Scoble
<http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/01/microsoft-rebooted-the-web-yesterday/>
wrote:

>In the hallway I met Jeff Prosise, co-founder of Wintellect. He told
>me that yesterday will be remembered as the day Microsoft rebooted
>the Web.

   Silverlight, which essentially places some of the power of
Microsoft's .NET development environment into major web browsers on
both Windows and Mac OS X* together with multimedia delivery
features, offers the potential to help shape the future of how you
and others on campus build and consume rich Web applications.

   Alongside, or in place of, current tools such as JavaScript and
Adobe's Flash and Flex, developers now have a compelling new platform
for creating interactive (Ajax- and Flash-like) Web applications, as
well as services that deliver multimedia content.

   What remains is to see how well Microsoft can deliver on their
promises. Right now, Silverlight 1.0 is in beta, and the really
interesting next release, 1.1, is still in alpha.

   TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has just gathered some useful links
around Silverlight in this blog post:

<http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/take-time-to-understand-silverlight-its-important/>

   One of those links is to Nik Cubrilovic's overview:

     http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/30/silverlight-the-web-just-got-richer/

   Microsoft's Silverlight home page is at:

     http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

   Some videos demonstrating early, commercial uses of Silverlight are
on the MIX07 website (starting at page 2, at least as of this
writing):

   http://www.visitmix.com/

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

*With some discussion apparently having taken place within Microsoft
about possible future support for at least one Linux browser.

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Received on Tue May 01 2007 - 20:34:50 PDT