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Silverlight 5 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the hp-totally-stole-their-thunder dept.

New submitter CaptSlaq sends word that Silverlight 5 has been released. Microsoft has not revealed whether it will be the last version. "New features in Silverlight 5 include Hardware Decode of H.264 media, which provides a significant performance improvement with decoding of unprotected content using the GPU; Postscript Vector Printing to improve output quality and file size; and an improved graphics stack with 3D support that uses the XNA API on the Windows platform to gain low-level access to the GPU for drawing vertex shaders and low-level 3D primitives. In addition, Silverlight 5 extends the ‘Trusted Application’ model to the browser for the first time. These features, when enabled via a group policy registry key and an application certificate, mean users won’t need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks such as multiple window support, full trust support in browser including COM and file system access, in browser HTML hosting within Silverlight, and P/Invoke support for existing native code to be run directly from Silverlight."

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  1. Anyone uses Silverlight? by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I ask because I have never met a single soul that employs it. Never!

    But again, I agree that I am no geek. Could it be that case that I am using it without explicit knowledge, since I currently use Windows 7 Home Premium? I also know that Microsoft has tightly woven piece of software into Windows in the past.

    Maybe I am using it without specifically agreeing to use it. Is it the case?

  2. Nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So it's officially as awesome as RealPlayer now?

    Great idea for Microsoft here... You guys should come up with a new format to create digital versions of songs from vinyl records to use on our Google machines; and, then come out with http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2148249/silverlight-5-released#a vastly inferior version of your groundbreaking new audio format that pretends to support linux.