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Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week

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It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. (Update: I originally said "Silverlight 2.0 in this post. But I've heard from a couple of Softies they are calling the next version plain old 2.) 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. Microsoft released the near-final test build of Silverlight 2 for both Windows and Mac OS X clients at the very end of September. Silverlight 2, unlike the 1.0 version of Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash, includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .Net Framework. Silverlight enables developers to write applications using any .Net language, including JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby. Silverlight 2 also features a Windows-Presentation-Foundation-based UI framework for building rich Web apps, and out-of-the-box support for REST, WS*/SOAP, POX, RSS, and standard HTTP services.

posted by Mary Jo Foley
October 10, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

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