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

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