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Microsoft Silverlight coming to a Linux box near you
The largest hurdle towards widespread adoption of Microsoft's Flash/AIR competitor "Silverlight" may have just gotten a little smaller. Miguel De Icaza, developer of the open source .Net-alike platform Mono and star employee of Novell has recently ...
Adobe's comments on Silverlights release
The CEO of Adobe has a few words on Microsofts newest release, Silverlight, and they aren't as harsh as expected. Adobe just released a Flash-based Media Player called Adobe Media Player. It's an online and offline player that is capable of tagging, ...
Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux, First stop: Moblin
Microsoft has announced plans to bring its Silverlight technology to Moblin Linux. This is the first time the company has mentioned anything about Silverlight running on any Linux distribution. Up until now the only way to access Silverlight ...
Microsoft takes the wraps off Silverlight 3
The boys in Redmond are excited about the beta release of Silverlight 3, and it was the hot topic at MIX09 in Las Vegas today. Scores of new features have been packed into Silverlight 3, including native support for h.264 and 720p HD (including ...
SilverX converts Flash video to Silverlight
SilverX is a Windows app that converts Flash (.SWF) videos to Microsoft's Silverlight format. It recognizes all the vectors, images, text and animations from the original Flash file, so you can extract all of those elements and edit them in a ...
Microsoft announces Silverlight, a Flash competitor
Microsoft Silverlight, in Microsoft's wording, is a next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. In other words, a Flash competitor. This is a runtime that will allow the playback of files using various forms of interactivity on ...
Microsoft Download Center Beta uses Silverlight
Things are changing over at Microsoft Download Center, as the new beta introduces Microsoft's take on Flash, Silverlight. That means if you want to check out the beta for yourself, you'll have to download the Silverlight plug-in in order to actually ...
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 ...
Mobile Minute News: Silverlight on Windows Mobile, Skype on a smartphone
In today's mobile Minute, we'll take a look at some of the latest news and software related to Windows Mobile devices. Silverlight coming to Windows Mobile Microsoft's Silverlight technology is taking aim squarely at Adobe's Flash, which currently ...
Microsoft releases Silverlight 1.0 and Linux support
Microsoft's Adobe Flash competitor leaves its beta status behind today. The software maker has announced the availability of Silverlight 1.0, multimedia web browser plug-in. Microsoft is also working with Novell on Silverlight support for Linux. The ...
Silverlight 3 now available for your Flash-killing pleasure
Way back in 2007 I scoffed at a little thing from Microsoft called Silverlight. Well, I'm not laughing any more. Now at 3.0, Silverlight's feature set is growing fast. Apparently MS released the new version a little early, so go here to download it ...
Export Silverlight files on OS X with Flip4Mac
Mac-using readers may well already know of Flip4Mac, the free Quicktime components which allow OS X users to playback Windows Media files within Quicktime. For Windows users, that may seem a bit unusual, but given that Microsoft no-longer develops ...
Microsoft Tafiti: Silverlight is pretty but doesn't really help you search
Microsoft's new Tafiti web site isn't exactly a new search engine. It's powered by Microsoft's search, so you'll get exactly the same results from Tafiti, MSN.com or Live.com. So what's the point of Tafiti? It's pretty. When you first visit the ...
Microsoft releases initial support for "IronRuby"
Microsoft, the captains of closed source, have officially taken the first steps to support Ruby within the .Net environment, a move seen as a way to cozy up to the upcoming generation of hardcore web developers who've cut their teeth on the Ruby ...
It's no Download Day, but IE7 is trying to reduce carbon via download
A brief recap for those just emerging from their caves: Firefox 3 announced the goal of setting the one-day record for downloads of a single piece of software, and on June 17, the browser scored over 8 million downloads. Here's something even the ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
