Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Systems’ Flash Player has an official name–Silverlight–and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the Web.
This could get interesting.
Indeed.
Flash has become so integrated into modern web development, it would almost seem that M$ would have no chance to crack that market. But then you look at the money that M$ can throw at the project and the amount of third-party support that can buy… this is going to get very interesting.
I wonder if extending their market to web development like this will be affected by any of the already existing anti-trust rulings against M$?
another article
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/16/silverlight/index.php
Silverlight Supports both Mac and Windows but apparently not linux
Microsoft just made too much noise! The WPF/E plugin is slow and freezes a lot. And of course it’s not available for those with Win 2000 or 9x/ME. They will never catch up to Flash, not even to Java (now Java 6). Instead of trying to take a piece of Adobe’s cake they should fix dotNet 3 Windows CardSpace; another “promising” technology that just crashes on many WinXP SP2 computers. ;D
Paul Thurrott just did a Windows Weekly podcast that talks about silverlight.
A very insightful talk about Silverlight. I forgot to say that the Silverlight dusk wallpaper looks nice with the XP Royale Noir theme. Sweet.