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Silverlight Goes Gold!

September 11th, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments

Microsoft announced the release to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com.

SilverLight is an application to create rich internet applications that competes Flash/Flex. Microsoft can only hope to catch us with Flash Player penetration.

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  1. Al3baidly
    September 12th, 2007 at 23:15 | #1
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    I doubt that Microsoft can catch the Adobe flash player. But the multi-platform sounds good. Also Novell is doing a great job to reveal that RTW to Linux. But come on guys, flash dominates the web. you can see it in all the sites. I want to end up with a link to the GNU flash player.
    http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

  2. FlashColony
    September 13th, 2007 at 14:38 | #2
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    So far yes Flash is the dominion. But in the future, it is hard to predict. SilverLight is being developed by a huge company, Microsoft, that everyone knows how it tries its best to monopoly computer software market. Everyday more and more articles posted that either shows how Silverlight is better or how Flash is better. Both technology has its pros and cons, just like Mac and Windows.

    I think that more competition is what we really need for advancing of rich internet application faster or any kind of products. Now that Adobe fears the competition of Microsoft, they are going to do better job on their next version of Flash. And I think the next version of Flash and/or Flex is going to shape the new web and break its limitation.

    A good RIA developer should learn both technologies. You can never know when you need anyone of them. Many businesses prefer Silverlight since it is backed up by Microsoft. But many companies prefer Flash because it is dominating the RIA web and it has far more developers than Silverlight.

  3. Al3baidly
    September 20th, 2007 at 14:46 | #3
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    There can be some competition and challenges between Adobe and Microsoft. But I learned from windows that Microsoft is not good in inventing and Flex is going open source. So, I see Adobe will keep its place as the leader of the rich user experience of the web.
    Don’t forget the great text based company “Sun”. They have released JavaFX. It will be shipped in new phones, TVs and can be downloaded in computers. JavaFX has great chance to succeed. Because if they have not succeeded in the web side of course they will succeed in phones and TVs side”as I think”. Sun is ready to change the size of JREs download, speed and performance to spread Java.

  4. Stephen Lowe
    January 25th, 2008 at 01:50 | #4
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    I think Silverlight is probably going to appeal strongly to ‘traditional’ desktop Windows developers, particularly those that do .Net development in C# or VB.NET, since Silverlight uses those programming languages. Silverlight and Windows Presentation Format apps also share most API calls and behaviors. This means Windows progammers are going to be able to work on web apps without having to shift gears to HTML, postbacks, etc. It also means web programmers who happen to use Silverlight will be able to write desktop Windows applications, and even OS extensions, without extensive retooling.
    Stephen Lowe
    Disclaimer: Though I work for Microsoft as a Developer\Architect Evangelist, my opinions (and occasional errors) are my own.

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