Woot! Silverlight 1.0 Ships!
For organizations that want to reap the benefits of rich interactive applications(RIA) in a cost effective and efficient manner, we are pleased to announce the release to Web of Silverlight 1.0. To make it easier to deliver Silverlight experiences, we are also announcing the RTW of Expression Encoder 1.0.
A number of customers and partners are already planning Silverlight deployments, including:
- External customers: “Entertainment Tonight,” HSN and WWE are ready to light up their Web presences with Silverlight and more customer applications are in the works.
- Internal customers (Microsoft): MSN Extra, Halo3 Preview, Tafiti, MSN Podium ’08.
- Industry partners: More than 35 companies are on board to support Silverlight via the new Silverlight Partner Initiative which encompasses agencies, tools providers, solution providers and CDNs.
Silverlight and Expression Studio are core technologies enabling better user experiences on the desktop, Web and beyond. Microsoft’s user experience approach is part of the broader Microsoft Application Platform strategy, formed with the goal of helping customers realize the benefits from more dynamic applications.
Silverlight has a flexible programming model that allows broad reuse of existing skills and Web investments.The programming model supports XHTML, AJAX, XAML, ASP.NET, and other popular languages and platforms including JavaScript, C#, VB, Python and Ruby. Developers can make use of existing skills while easily integrating Silverlight-based content with existing Web applications.
Silverlight 1.0 runs on Windows and Mac, but what about Linux? In response to customer feedback, we are partnering with Novell to deliver an implementation of Silverlight for Linux called Moonlight. By expanding the cross platform support, customers can experience the benefits of Silverlight regardless of the operating system.
For more information see http://www.microsoft.com and http://www.silverlight.net/.