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Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
14 October 2008
Microsoft has announced the availability of Silverlight 2.
Silverlight 2 aims to deliver a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.
"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 represents a radical improvement in the way developers and designers build applications on the Web. This release will further accelerate our efforts to make Silverlight, Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Studio the preeminent solutions for the creation and delivery of media and rich Internet application experiences."
Silverlight adoption continues to grow rapidly, with penetration in some countries approaching 50 percent and a growing ecosystem that includes more than 150 partners and tens of thousands of applications.
Highlights of Silverlight 2 include:
- .NET Framework support with a rich base class library
- Powerful built-in controls
- Advanced skinning and templating support
- Deep zoom
- Comprehensive networking support
- Expanded .NET Framework language support
- Advanced content protection
- Improved server scalability and expanded advertiser support
- Cross-platform and cross-browser support
Silverlight 2 is available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight.
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