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Silverlight 2.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the opposite-of-sun dept.

rfernand79 writes "Via Scott Guthrie's Blog for Microsoft, we find out that Silverlight 2.0 has been released. The blog post notes some interesting statistics, including the magnitude of video streamed during the Olympics and the Democratic National Convention (both using Silverlight). 'Hello Worlds' and educational links are included in the post."

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  1. Neat, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...call me again when Mono has an implementation.

  2. Re:Great! by psergiu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also no 2.0 for PowerPC Mac! I'm safe too!

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  3. Re:Silverlight $NEXT_VERSION will trounce all come by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft today announced the release of version 2.0 its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest.

    "We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight," announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. "NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. Google haven't called back. My life is an exercise in futility. I'm the walking dead, man, the walking dead!"

    Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 98% of computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.

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  4. Javascript communication by QuoteMstr · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're looking for a replacement for canvas in IE. excanvas sucks. We could use flash, but the Javascriptflash interface is very slow. (It serializes to XML twice.) Is Silverlight's any better?

  5. This is the year! by bonch · · Score: 4, Funny

    This year will be the Year of Silverlight on the Desktop! Just you wait!

  6. Re:The Problem by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Microsoft decided that developer support was more important than porn site support. Uh, that was stupid. Basically, the only way Microsoft is going to get people installing Silverlight is to put up a FREE PORN site that requires Silverlight exclusively. On Windows Vista or later only.

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  7. FTA: "Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform...." by Joce640k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which platforms are available? XP and Vista?

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