Hot on the heels of Flash 10.1, Microsoft unveils Silverlight 4 beta
Microsoft has been busy churning out news at PDC09, already having announced the arrival of Office 2010's public beta and Internet Explorer 9.
Not to be done by Adobe's recent unveiling of Flash 10.1, Microsoft has taken the wraps off Silverlight 4 beta. A few of the key changes in the new version include support for Google Chrome, performance gains up to 200% over Silverlight 3, and multi-touch support.
Silverlight's Deep Zoom has also been turbo-charged with hardware acceleration. v4 can also tap into your webcam and microphone, and local recording capabilities have been added. Microsoft hopes Silverlight 4 will allow developers to go beyond the browser and create rich desktop applications -- another salvo at the Adobe camp.
There are a slew of additions and enhancements aimed at developers, network administrators, and kiosk environments -- you can check a complete listing out in the offical release announcement.
Can't see the video embed in this post? You need to get your hands on the Silverlight plugin, I reckon. Runtimes are available for Windows and Mac here.
Not to be done by Adobe's recent unveiling of Flash 10.1, Microsoft has taken the wraps off Silverlight 4 beta. A few of the key changes in the new version include support for Google Chrome, performance gains up to 200% over Silverlight 3, and multi-touch support.
Silverlight's Deep Zoom has also been turbo-charged with hardware acceleration. v4 can also tap into your webcam and microphone, and local recording capabilities have been added. Microsoft hopes Silverlight 4 will allow developers to go beyond the browser and create rich desktop applications -- another salvo at the Adobe camp.
There are a slew of additions and enhancements aimed at developers, network administrators, and kiosk environments -- you can check a complete listing out in the offical release announcement.
Can't see the video embed in this post? You need to get your hands on the Silverlight plugin, I reckon. Runtimes are available for Windows and Mac here.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Kris120890 said 4:04PM on 11-18-2009
I do prefer silverlight its just a shame most people us adobe flash. Its one of those things that microsoft have managed ship that works right out of the door.
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Mark_C said 5:03PM on 11-18-2009
Are they serious with the term "evangelist"? The stupidity must reflect in their programming skills too.
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davidhuntley.personal said 7:42AM on 11-19-2009
"The stupidity must reflect in their programming skills too",...Really? I'd wager it is in fact you that doesn't know their arse from their elbow as concerns programming my friend.
Microsoft hating doesn't help anyone. Especially when they're finally producing some great stuff.
Travis Bjorklund said 5:08PM on 11-18-2009
Silverlight 3 was too slow for my liking but if they can get better performance in more mobile platforms, then I'll be sold. Hopefully SL4 can deliver on that, I havent tried it out.
On my netbook Youtube studders way more than I'd like, and SL3 is alright once it gets going but kicks my Aspire One's ass while it loads, slowing the entire system down.
I don't think something like flash or silverlight should slow down any machine that can handle say WoW or other 3D apps without a hitch.
Let's hope HTML5 can fix some of these issues.
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khebs said 9:47PM on 11-18-2009
Where can we get the wallpaper in the LCD Screen? i like it.. post a link for it please ^^
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theos said 11:50PM on 11-18-2009
*Silverlight won't install from Opera ("Not supported"), but once installed through FF it works fine ?! Stupid c%$#&^^ !
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epavilaciones said 2:11PM on 11-23-2009
Ha ha ha....Evangelist.
The crosses on the guy's shirt. John Papa...the name for "pope" in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and a few other languages.
This is too rich.
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