Microsoft has decided the next version of its Silverlight Flash-competitor is much more worthy of a 2.0 moniker than a one.1 1.On November 29, Developer Division Common Supervisor Scott Guthrie blogged that Microsoft has made the decision to rechristen its next Silverlight release as two.0. Microsoft plans to make a beta create with the next version of Silverlight accessible under a “Go Live” license in the first quarter of 2008,
Microsoft Office 2010 Key, Guthrie added. (A Go-Live license allows users/developers to begin deploying applications in production based on the beta.)Microsoft produced an alpha version of Silverlight one.one (now Silverlight two.0) offered to testers in April 2007. The final edition of Silverlight 2.0 is due out in 2008.Microsoft shipped Silverlight one.0 for Windows and the Mac OS platforms earlier this fall. Silverlight 2.0 adds support for ASP.Net Ajax,
windows 7 Home Premium x86, Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and JavaScript, as well as support for Visual Common, C#,
windows 7 Starter product key, Python and Ruby, which it will make offered via a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer.Novell is building a edition of Silverlight two.0 that will run on Linux, which is code-named Moonlight.Microsoft is positioning Silverlight — formerly codenamed “Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere,
Windows Seven,” or WPF/E — not only as a multimedia player, but also as a development and delivery vehicle for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).I;ll be interested to see if Microsoft ends up using Silverlight as a way to deliver applications like Word in the not-too-distant future,
Cheap Office Professional 2010, a la Adobe;s Buzzword. I bet it;s not a matter of “if” the company will do so; it;s more a question of when. Do you agree?