Many IT managers and system administrators are using WSUS to update their enterprise networks.
Well, we have some good news for you folks:
Starting from today, you can obtain Silverlight for Windows XPSP2 and Windows Server 2003 from WSUS. This blog has more details:
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2008/01/21/new-product-family-silverlight-coming-tuesday-1-22-08.aspx
In parallel Silverlight is also available for Microsoft Update customers that run XPSP2 and Windows Server 2003. This blog has more details:
http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2008/01/18/new-product-family-and-update-silverlight-available-to-wsus-mu-and-mu-catalog.aspx
Going forward Silverlight will also be offered to Windows Vista customers, we do not have time table yet for that.
This is another step in making Silverligth broadly available.
Barak
In December we released the source code for "Tafiti". A search visualization app that uses Live Search in the background and Silverlight on the front end to render search results in a compelling way. Tafiti is the first example we had for a dynamic application that renders temporal service data using Silverlight. We expect this area of synamic application to evolve and offer users more compelling experiences with their online services.
Now is your chance to look at the guts of this app and think how you can use this wizdom to create your own application.