Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

6 of 164 comments (clear)

  1. About time by Aggrajag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As I still haven't installed Silverlight 1.0 or seen a site that requires it.

  2. And nothing of value by sakdoctor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    was gained.

  3. Meh by bonch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was more excited to hear Garfield The Movie was getting a sequel.

  4. Oh this is too precious! by AndGodSed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the silverlight terms of agreement:

    You may not

    Â work around any technical limitations in the software;

    There - right there - it says that if your computer is limited by this software you may not find a way to fix it!

    Oh my goodness! I am so glad I got "your browser or hardware is incompatible with silverlight" or some generic message when I browsed to the silverlight page...

    I wonder if "not allowed to work around" includes uninstalling it...

    7. SUPPORT SERVICES. Because this software is âoeas is,â we may not provide support services for it.

    So if it breaks your computer you are on your own!

    Oh dear - what a chuckle. Trusted computing my left buttock.

    --

    Seven Days with Ubuntu Unity

  5. Re:The Problem by Skye16 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Have you ever tried using Flash *heavily* in a web application?

    ActionScript is an abomination, at best.

    I'll take Silverlight over Flash for that simple reason.

    I'd still prefer neither.

  6. And...where's Moonlight 1.0? by jfbilodeau · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure that Microsoft kindly shared the specs for SilverLight 2.0 with Mono/Novell during the development so that the Mono project would not have to play catch-up once 2.0 came out. Right?

    Otherwise, Microsoft would be releasing a technology that will only work reliably on Windows and shun the other major platforms.

    Hum... I wonder why they just don't do like Adobe or Sun and release a version for Linux, Mac and Windows?

    Surely, I must be misinterpreting Microsoft's intentions with Silverlight!

    --
    Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.