Microsoft To Release Silverlight 2 In Late Summer
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative toAdobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of Silverlight developers.
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7.4.2008 Silverlight 1.0 Beta
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.
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3.5.2007 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Silverlight 4 beta now available
Microsoft have just announced Silverlight 4 beta today at PDC09, that is available for download today. Silverlight 4 promises to enhance the overall user experience, improving speed, performance and rendering for browsers.
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18.11.2009 Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.
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13.6.2007 Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available This Week
Microsoft is getting to move Silverlight 2 forward with the next development milestone.
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3.6.2008 Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2
As reported by us earlier here silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 for Windows is now finally available for download
Theres lots of new features in this release including, but not limited.
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6.6.2008 The Mojave Experiment - now with Silverlight!
Many of you might have heard of the Mojave Experiment, and some of you might have snickered at that site's use of another rich client technology. :)
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4.9.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
Microsoft today announced the availability of Silverlight 2.
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13.10.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0
Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to "Light up the web", Silverlight 3 which is now available for download.
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9.7.2009 Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
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29.4.2007 Microsoft Download Center: Silverlight or not?
Thanks for Ben's comment to my last post and a reality check! :) The new download center with Silverlight is in its beta, there are a number of usability issues we need to improve on especially that there are no accessibility features in the current version.
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14.1.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 2 beta
Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released Wednesday initial public beta versions of its Silverlight 2 multimedia presentation technology and the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
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6.3.2008 Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight
Veteran Microsoft ISV partner Infragistics is taking an early lead on Silverlight 2, Microsofts emerging cross-browser media plug-in.
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5.6.2008 Microsoft Silverlight WPF/E Web browser plug-in
Microsoft on Monday showed video pros at NAB Silverlight, a new Mac and PC-compatible Web browser plug-in that provides interactive Web capabilities similar to how Adobe Flash works with streaming video capabilities superior to QuickTime, according to the company.
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23.4.2007 Project Indiana: Could Sun outshine Microsofts Silverlight?
At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana."
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8.5.2007 Silverlight 2, Microsoft's Flash Killer, Gets DRM, Just Like Vista
Microsoft's Flash killer, Silverlight, is on track to get digital rights management just like the company's latest Windows client, Windows Vista. Microsoft has faced a barrage of criticism over the content protection capabilities in Vista, and the subject is bound to yet again come into play with Silverlight 2.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft's Flash Killer, Silverlight 2, Released to Web
Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008.
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13.10.2008 Microsoft confirms Silverlight 3 to launch on July 10
Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 designer tools on July 10 company spokespeople confirmed today.
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29.5.2009 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 InstantUpdate 1.0 Release Candidate
InstantUpdate can ensure users always have the latest versions of your software.
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14.7.2007 Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1
Many of you will know that Ive been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months.
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18.5.2008 Is Windows 7 ready for release now?
Earlier today, I read about the latest leaked build of Windows 7 to appear on BitTorrent. The text on the desktop suggests that build 7057 is part of the release candidate branch.
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13.3.2009 MS06-015 targeted re-release now available
The targeted re-release of MS06-015 is ready. If you are configured for Automatic Update, no need to take any actions. It will detect if you have the problem and deliver the update to you.
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25.4.2006 IE7 Release Candidate builds are on the way
Todd from IEBlog yesterday posted on his MSDN blog about the future of IE7 as well as some tidbits about when to expect release candidate and final builds. You can find this information in the comments section
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4.8.2006 Group predicts May release for Vista
Over the course of the last two weeks, Microsoft has been waging in a public dispute with the European Commission (EC). The EC has raised questions about whether or not Windows Vista complies with the group's antitrust regulations.
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21.9.2006 Just One More Release Before Windows Vista Goes Gold
Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group.
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1.10.2006 Microsoft looks to testers for help with next Windows release
A beta tester's work is never complete, at least not in the world of Windows. Last week, the long awaited launch of Windows Vista began as it was released to enterprises. Microsoft has attributed much of the product's success, as in success by going gold, to its testers.
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4.12.2006 Microsoft to release four critical patches
Microsoft announced plans Thursday to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in its Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP.
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8.6.2007 New iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 Hacked Before Release
Apple's latest effort to thwart iPhone and iPod touch hacking futile.
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10.11.2007Silverlight 1.0 Released, Linux Version Coming
Wednesday marked the final 1.0 release of Microsoft's new Silverlight platform for building interactive Web experiences à la Flash, but
the big news is that Redmond will extend official support to Novell's Linux port of Silverlight...
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05.09.2007Microsoft To Release Silverlight 2 In Late Summer
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative to
Adobe's Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of Silverlight developers. In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft developer
Ashish Thapliyal said Microsoft is "targeting late Summer" for its release of Silverlight 2.0, which is currently in its first beta release.
Silverlight 2.0 supports VC-1, WMV, MP3 and WMA content, but Microsoft has no plans to support the Flash video (.flv), used by Youtube and
many other Websites, said Thapliyal. Microsoft's rationale here is to avoid paying licensing fees and to keep the Silverlight download file size
as small as possible, he added.
"Silverlight isn't designed with an extensible codec model in mind, so there is no date/version
announced for this," wrote Thapliyal. A second Silverlight 2.0 beta is due in May, and this version will be very similar to the final release,
according to Thapliyal. He said no details are available about the roadmap for Silverlight for mobile, or Silverlight v.Next, also known as
Silverlight 3.
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07.04.2008Silverlight Release Candidate due before end of July
Microsoft expects to deliver
the near-final test release of
its Silverlight alternative to
Flash before July is over,
according to a blog posting
from a Microsoft technical
evangelist.
Microsoft
officially unveiled the beta
of Silverlight 1.0 at its Mix
07 conference in April. The
company also announced at that
time the availability of an
alpha of Silverlight 1.1,
which adds a built-in Common
Language Runtime engine, plus
support for ASP.Net Ajax,
Language-Integrated Query
(LINQ), JavaScript, Visual
Basic, C#, Python and Ruby.
(No update so far on the
status of Silverlight 1.1.)
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16.07.2007Users Itching for Silverlight 2.0
Microsoft continues to evolve its Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for generating rich Internet applications and Web content, and
users are anxiously awaiting the features due in the next release.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant released Silverlight 1.0 in
September, along with a 1.1 update. Then on Nov. 29, Microsoft announced that it was renaming Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0. And in addition to
adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight further by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful
skinning/theming, data binding and over 20 controls in the box, Microsoft said.
Although Microsoft has not set a specific date
for when it will release Silverlight 2.0, the company expects to release a beta version with a Go-Live license during the first quarter of 2008most
likely in time for its MIX 08 conference in early March.
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11.12.2007Silverlight 2 targeted for "late summer" release
We got a
heads up on
when we'd first see the first release of Silverlight 2, and now we have a timeframe to look forward to for the final version. Silverlight 2.0 RTM is
expected to be ready by Summer
2008.
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04.04.2008First Look at Silverlight 2
Scott Guthrie: Last September
we
shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling
rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model.
We are shortly going to release the first
public beta of Silverlight 2, which will be a major update of Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet Application (RIA) development.
This is the first of several blog posts I'll be doing over the weeks and months ahead that talk in more depth about it.
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22.02.2008Final Silverlight 2.0 ships Tuesday
UPDATED BetaNews has verified that Silverlight 2.0 has been released on schedule, and that the update process has begun. Meanwhile, a number of
Silverlight-related projects will be released as open source...
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14.10.2008Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides
hosting services for Internet
TV, will announce Wednesday
plans to add Microsoft's new
Silverlight technology as a
video delivery vehicle.
The company is
collaborating with Microsoft
on this endeavor. Through
Silverlight, Maven's customer
base of professional media
companies will be able to
leverage familiar Windows
Media technology as well as
workflow automation,
publishing, and player
creation capabilities of the
Maven Internet TV platform.
A rival to Adobe's
Flash technology, Silverlight
currently is in a beta release
stage. It provides for
cross-platform, broadband
video experiences, Maven said.
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13.06.2007Report: MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com
It looks like Microsoft is getting desperate about the dismal rates of Silverlight adoption by consumers and developers since its release earlier this
year. According to NeoSmart Technologies, Microsoft is
preparing a fully Silverlight-powered redesign of their website, doing away with most HTML pages entirely. With over 60 million
unique users visiting Microsoft.com a month, Microsoft's last-ditch effort might be what it takes to breathe some life back into Silverlight. The
article notes: 'At the moment, very few non-Microsoft-owned sites are using Silverlight at all; let alone for the entire UI.'
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03.01.2008Microsoft's New Silverlight Already Out
Everyone was expecting to hear more about Microsoft (MSFT) Silverlight at the
Microsoft
MIX geekfest starting in Las Vegas at noon ET / 9am PT today.
But it looks like things got off to early start: Microsoft fans
on the Web are jumping over the early release of Silverlight 3, which hit the web last night. Site
nextbestgeek.com has links to all the downloads and documentation...
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18.03.2009Microsoft Silverlight RC Due Before End of July
Microsoft expects to deliver
the near-final test release of
its Silverlight alternative to
Flash before July is over,
according to a blog posting
from a Microsoft technical
evangelist.
Microsoft officially
unveiled the beta of
Silverlight 1.0 at its Mix
'07 conference in April. The
company also announced at that
time the availability of an
alpha of Silverlight 1.1,
which adds a built-in Common
Language Runtime engine, plus
support for ASP.Net Ajax,
Language-Integrated Query
(LINQ), JavaScript, Visual
Basic, C#, Python and Ruby.
(No update so far on the
status of Silverlight 1.1.)
Silverlight is a
Web browser plug-in for
playing media files and
displaying interactive Web
applications that was formerly
codenamed "Windows
Presentation Foundation
Everywhere," or WPF/E.
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16.07.2007Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008
This package is an add-on to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. It provides a Silverlight
project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic. The project system includes:
- Visual Basic and
C# Project templates
- Intellisense and code generators for XAML
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Web
reference support
- Integration with Expression Blend
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27.11.2007Microsoft rechristens Silverlight 1.1 as Silverlight 2.0
Microsoft has decided the next version of its Silverlight Flash-competitor is more worthy of a 2.0 moniker than a 1.1 one.
On
November 29, Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie blogged that
Microsoft has
decided to rechristen its next Silverlight release as 2.0. Microsoft plans to make a beta build of the next version of Silverlight available under
a Go Live license in the first quarter of 2008, Guthrie added. (A Go-Live license allows users/developers to begin deploying applications in
production based on the beta.)
Microsoft made
an alpha
version of Silverlight 1.1 (now Silverlight 2.0) available to testers in April 2007. The final version of Silverlight 2.0 is due out in 2008.
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29.11.2007TringMe proves Silverlight-based VoIP (sort of)
In a crafty bit of coding, TringMe has unveiled
a demo of a
Silverlight widget that allows outgoing VoIP calls to be made. The India-based IP telephone software company says that Silverlight does not provide
microphone support, so this widget uses Flash to access the microphone for the exchange taking place in Silverlight...
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03.02.2009Silverlight 1.0 RC1 Now Available
As indicated in a previous
post, we're homing in on the
launch of Silverlight 1.0, and
today marks another milestone
with the launch of the first
release candidate.
Since the beta we released
at MIX, we've fixed
approximately 2000 bugs and
work items and we're now
feature complete with the
final JavaScript-based API.
This version of the runtime is
vastly more stable than the
beta release: our stress test
runs show improvements of two
or three orders of magnitude
in many cases, and the product
demonstrates the polish one
might expect from a near-final
release.
Along
with the 1.0 RC1 release,
we've also refreshed the 1.1
bits. We've not exposed any
significant changes in the
.NET extensions, but the 1.1
"alpha refresh" includes the
same core runtime as 1.0 RC1.
A note on installation: if you
have the beta release on your
machine, there's no need to
uninstall - simply run the RC1
installer and it will
overwrite the existing
binaries on your machine.
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28.07.2007Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0 next week
It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2.0 is done.
Scott Guthrie, Corporate
Vice President of the .NET Developer Division is slated to make a significant announcement related to Microsoft Silverlight on October 13 at 9 a.m.
PT, according to Microsoft.
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11.10.2008An overview of the Silverlight 3 Beta
Just in case you missed our live blogging of the MIX09 keynote, we've got a full list of new features that are in the Silverlight 3 beta. You can
now download the Silverlight 3 beta directly off the Silverlight website. And for all you Mac users out there, there is even a version for you.
Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, highlights of new features and functionality of Silverlight 3 include: major media
enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics
support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity.
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19.03.2009Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 Reach Beta 2; Silverlight 1.0 Hits RC
No fewer than five major
announcements in the
development field are being
issued by Microsoft this
afternoon, the timing of which
is by no means coincidental:
On the top of the list, Beta 2
of Visual Studio 2008 -- which
is quickly losing touch with
its old code-name "Orcas" --
will be made generally
available for download by this
Friday, along with Beta 2 of
.NET Framework 3.5.
But what developers have
been itching to finally try is
building applications for
Silverlight - the company's
new cross-platform graphical
front-end module - under the
auspices of Visual Studio.
Beginning this week,
testers can finally build
Silverlight applications as VS
2008 projects, by means of a
Silverlight add-in. This while
the JavaScript-oriented
Silverlight 1.0 is upgraded to
Release Candidate status, and
the second-generation
Silverlight 1.1 for
statically-typed languages
such as C++, moves from the
alpha stage to an official
Community Technology Preview.
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26.07.2007Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter
Brad Abrams: On November 29, 2007 Microsoft will be hosting Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter on the Redmond, Washington campus. This daylong event
is free to anyone who wants to learn about designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight 1.0.
Don't worry,
if you can't be there in person, I am told we are going to make all the material available on line after the event.
Microsoft
Silverlight 1.0 is a cross platform browser plug-in that enables for easy development of media rich web sites. For more information, visit
http://silverlight.net.
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08.11.2007First Silverlight v1.0 Service Release is Live
Mike Harsh: In
the midst of all the work our team has been cranking on for Silverlight v1.1 (controls, databinding, layout, templates, styling and a package based
app model, phew!), we've also been working with customers to address the top set of issues folks have hit with Silverlight v1.0. Today we're happy
to be releasing an update to address many of these issues. The first Silverlight v1.0 service release is now live and includes the following
improvements and fixes:
- Improved media performance and stability, especially for full-screen video. This includes improving A/V
sync, which provides a better experience on lower-end machines.
- HTTP redirection now works for images and other media.
-
Improved support for font managers & Mac Office 2008 fonts.
- Streaming video through proxied network connections only worked through port
80. Silverlight now respects the proxy port settings.
- Allowing access to all content embedded in .zip files with a non-.zip extension.
- Support for logging with Windows Media Services
- Loading XAML from a script tag will now work on all supported browsers.
The first bullet is the big ticket item. It encompasses 4 sizable perf improvements that really make video in Silverlight hum. This
update will be rolled out to all users running Silverlight v1.0 via the auto-updater built into the plug-in. If youre impatient and want to get the
update sooner, you can get it from the
Silverlight installation
page.
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