I’m not gonna lie: Infoworld’s got more information on Silverlight 2 Beta 1 than I do. There’s like this informational blockage between our regional dev evangelist folks and us doing formal account work. They never distribute information to folks locally, so it’s a rare day that I get decent developer news internally.
So here’s an excerpt from Infoworld’s reporting:
[Silverlight] Version 2 features support for managed code and developing with multiple languages, including IronRuby, IronPython, JavaScript, and .Net.
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With Silverlight 2, Microsoft brought out a host of early adopters, including NBC Sports, which is using Silverlight for upcoming Olympics coverage; Hard Rock International, of Hard Rock Cafe fame; and Cirque du Soleil. Display capabilities both for the Web and mobile devices were highlighted.
NBC Sports plans to use Silverlight to Webcast 2,200 hours of coverage. "You’re going to be able to go online and you’re going to be able to consume video how you want it, when you want it," said Perkins Miller, senior vice president of NBC Sports and Olympics.
Hard Rock showed a Silverlight application enabling users to zoom in onto pictures of rock memorabilia, while Cirque du Soleil showed a performer-casting intranet application featuring video. In the mobile space, Weatherbug demonstrated a weather information application running on a Nokia phone.
READ:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/05/microsoft-mix08-silverlight-beta_1.html
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