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
There’s 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, Microsoft’s emerging cross-browser media plug-in.
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5.6.2008 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 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 Microsoft’s 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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19.12.2007DeepZoom & PhotoZoom From Microsoft.
Microsoft announced new features in Silverlight 2. One of the most exciting new features is
DeepZoom. This capability allows users to explore collections of
super high resolution imagery, from a 2 or 3 megapixel shot from a digital camera to gigapixel scans of museum pieces, all without waiting for huge
file downloads. Deep Zoom is based on the same Seadragon technology that you have seen in our demos and in the Photosynth preview.
PhotoZoom is an experimental project developed by a small group of Microsoft developers, and it is definitely not an official, supported Microsoft
product.
PhotoZoom is a web site where anyone can upload their photos and turn them
into zoom-able, pan-able albums, using the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 2 Beta 1.
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10.03.2008Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
Microsoft
today announced the
availability of Silverlight 2.
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in to rival Adobe's Flash. It
allows for developers to build interactive applications for the Web.
Microsoft also announced further support of open source communities by
funding advanced Silverlight development capabilities with the Eclipse Foundation’s integrated development environment (IDE) and by providing
new controls to developers with the Silverlight Control Pack (SCP) under the Microsoft Permissive License.
“We launched Silverlight
just over a year ago, and already one in four consumers worldwide has access to a computer with Silverlight already installed,” said Scott
Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft.
Silverlight 2 features include:
- Support for Mac,
Windows and Linux in Firefox, Safari and Windows Internet Explorer
- Improved server scalability and expanded advertiser
support
- Advanced content protection
- Deep zoom, for zooming and navigation of ultrahigh resolution imagery
- Advanced skinning
and templating support
Silverlight 2 will be available to download tomorrow at
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13.10.2008Internet Explorer 8 and Adaptive Zoom
Saloni Mira Rai, a program manager on the Internet Explorer 8 Layout team provides a walk through of the changes in Zoom for Internet Explorer 8:
Zoom lets you enlarge or reduce the view of a web page to improve readability. The feature is particularly useful on really large
and really small displays, allowing for scaling of content while maintaining the intended layout of the page. The second iteration of the zoom feature
(first shipped in Internet Explorer 7) focuses on improving the existing experience by providing a higher quality, more predictable, and persistent
zooming experience.
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26.03.2008Download the Preview of the Deep Zoom Composer
Deep Zoom Composer allows you to quickly import your own images, arrange and position them to your liking, and export the final output as either a
Deep Zoom Image or Collection that can be fed into Silverlight's MutliScaleImage control. This means that you too can use your own images and display
them using our Deep Zoom technology.
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06.03.2008Final 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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14.10.2008Firefox 3 gets full-page zoom
The much-anticipated page zoom
feature has finally landed in
Firefox 3
nightly builds. Firefox 3
will now be able to zoom the
entire page, including images
as well as text, just like
Opera and IE 7.
The page zoom feature
request was originally filed
in Bugzilla in 1999, but
implementation was delayed
because it wasn't considered
practical in Gecko 1.8, the
current version of Firefox's
HTML rendering engine.
Scheduled for inclusion in
Firefox 3, the new version of
the rendering engineGecko
1.9leverages the open source
Cairo vector graphics
rendering framework and
includes a number of extremely
significant improvements to
layout and rendering. The page
zoom feature was implemented
as part of the Gecko overhaul
and will now be included in
Firefox 3.
Although the page zoom
feature is fully implemented,
the user interface doesn't
expose the page zoom
functionality to the end user
yet. Until menu items, toolbar
buttons, or keyboard shortcuts
are added to facilitate access
to the page zoom feature, most
users probably won't be able
to make much use of the new
feature.
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28.07.2007Windows Live PhotoZoom Alpha: Silverlight powers new Microsoft Live Labs project
There's a new project brewing
in Microsoft Live Labs,
Windows Live PhotoZoom. This
alpha project from Ray
Ozzie's Concept Development
Team is Silverlight based and
allows seamless zoom controls
on consumer photos in a web
based application. PhotoZoom
also makes use of the
Photosynth / Seadragon
technology developed by Live
Labs, which most recently has
been seen in the
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y/bbc-launches-six-photosynth-
collections/>Photosynth
collections released by the
BBC. While you may not yet be
able to recreate the BBC's
work, PhotoZoom is another
step towards this.
According
to Matt Augustine of the
PhotoZoom team, "PhotoZoom is
an experimental site that
brings the zooming
capabilities first shown
during the Silverlight demos
in the Mix07 keynote to
consumer photography." Note
that the currently available
alpha/beta builds of
Silverlight do not feature the
zooming feature that is
required for PhotoZoom, so the
timeline for this Live Labs
project being released is
dependent on when this
Silverlight update becomes
public...
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07.06.2007An Update to Deep Zoom Composer
Ever since we released Deep Zoom Composer during MIX, there has been a ton of great feedback you have all sent us on what you liked and what you would
like to see improved in future versions. To give you a sneak peek at where we are currently, we're releasing an updated version of Deep Zoom Composer
for you all to play with.
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04.05.2008Silverlight 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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05.09.2007Google Chrome 2.0 pre-beta released
After the release of the Internet giants first web browser, titled Chrome, Google is hard at work on making their next version of Chrome up to
standards with other browsers. The team at Google has taken the feedback received from the first official release, and made changes accordingly. You
can expect to see the following new features: Form Autocomplete: Something browsers currently have, and a small, yet important feature to implement
into Chrome. Full-page Zoom: The ability to zoom in on text and images using your keyboard shortcuts, making text easier to read. The image zoom
will also utilize your keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl – and Ctrl + to zoom in and out.
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09.01.2009TringMe 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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03.02.2009First 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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22.02.2008An 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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19.03.2009Viewing Google Sky through a browser
Google unveiled a
browser version of its Google Sky application on Thursday for people
who don't want to download the Google Earth software.
The browser version allows you to zoom in and out and pan around the
celestial bodies, search for planets and galaxies and view the sky through infrared, x-ray, ultraviolet, and microwave views.
There are also galleries of some of the best shots from the Hubble telescope and others. You can also listen to podcasts and look at historical
maps of the sky.
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14.03.2008Silverlight 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.
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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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08.11.2007Silverlight 2 final set for this summer, won't play Flash video
Microsoft developer Ashish Thapliyal has published a roadmap for the Silverlight 2 Web platform, confirming a final launch scheduled for the summer,
and noting that Silverlight won't be able to play back .flv Flash video files...
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04.04.2008Microsoft 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. Silverlight
3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to
Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin. Dramatic video
performance and quality improvements are also expected. Microsoft is currently running a Silverlight 3 beta for developers and will be launching the
final product on July 10th. Silverlight 3 was not expected until later this year but yesterday company officials began sending out press invites for
the launch.
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29.05.2009Silverlight 2 Beta 2 arrives on time, available now
As promised by Bill Gates
earlier this week,
Microsoft has now released
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 as a 4.66MB
download. The
Silverlight homepage does not yet have the new download links, but as things change
(like the Mac installer being posted), this post will be updated. Just like previous Silverlight betas, the installation is very quick and the browser
may have to be restarted for the changes to take effect.
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07.06.2008Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0
Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to "Light up the web", Silverlight 3 which is now available for download. Silverlight has come a long
way since its version 1.0 launched in 2007. It has even attracted big players like Netflix who use it as their primary video player. 3.0 brings a
host of improvements such as "Smooth Streaming" and "out of browser experiences". Web developers will also appreciate the built in support for GPU
acceleration. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser
capabilities to Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin.
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10.07.2009Microsoft Launches Licensed Contract Manufacturers Marketplace for Hardware Technology
At COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2008, Microsoft Corp. is announcing the expansion of its intellectual property (IP) licensing program for Microsoft Hardware
technologies with the launch of the Licensed Contract Manufacturers Marketplace and the expansion of its IP licensing portfolio with three new
technologies Instant Viewer; Magnetic Recharging Cable; and Video Conferencing Digital Pan, Tilt, Zoom and Face Tracking to further demonstrate its
commitment to shared industry success.
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