Yes, it’s done.  On 5th September Microsoft released Silverlight version 1.0 to the world.  With so much information made available during the beta stage of products nowadays, it’s unusual to have surprising news at launch time… but they managed it.

Yes, there were announcements about big names who have decided to use Silverlight and a partner program - and we already know that quality streaming is being offered with a starting price of free and that Silverlight will run on Mac’s as well as Windows.

But I was surprised by their announcement that Silverlight would be made available on Linux as well!  Of course Microsoft aren’t well known for their skills in building Unix or Linux applications (!), so here they have partnered with Novell who run the ‘Mono’ project.  The Mono project writes it’s own version of Microsoft’s .NET for Linux (called Mono) - though without any form of Microsoft support.  In this case, there is formal partnership for Novell to make Silverlight available on many flavours of Linux through it’s Moonlight project.

Well, well.  Microsoft software available on Linux, whatever next!

You can see our own steps into using Silverlight here on our ValuedClientSystem.com site.  Take a look at my previous posts if you want to see how they were created.

See microsoft.com/Silverlight or Silverlight.net for more information.

Have fun,
-Mark

Mark Quirk is a director at Know It Use It Ltd http://www.ValuedClientSystem.com - From Prospects to Customers to Valued Clients http://www.VCSHosts.co.uk – Create Your Online Business In A Box

Last year Derek Gehl’s Internet Marketing Center included the UK in their Internet Millionaire Protégé Bootcamp (26-27th May 2006) - and they broke the mould in two ways:

1. The event was completely free
2. The content was genuinely useful

Looking back at my notes, for example, I recorded 26 website references of useful places to go in order to help promote our business (27 if you include their own site).

Now, this year’s Internet Wealth Building Bootcamp isn’t free, but knowing how great Dekek’s content is, it’s more than worth $97 registration free (less than £50 given the current exchange rate) .  And, the price includes 60 days membership to their
Internet Entrepreneur Club and full refund in the unlikely event that you’re not entirely happy with the event.

It’s taking place in London on 3rd & 4th November 2007 - read the details here!

If you decide to go, I’d love to meet up, drop me a note!

All the best,
Mark

Mark Quirk is a director at Know It Use It Ltd http://www.ValuedClientSystem.com - From Prospects to Customers to Valued Clients http://www.VCSHosts.co.uk – Create Your Online Business In A Box