{"id":1812,"date":"2009-09-23T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1812-microsoft-brings-silverlight-not-mono-to-linux-via-intel.html"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:57:45","slug":"microsoft-brings-silverlight-not-mono-to-linux-via-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1812-microsoft-brings-silverlight-not-mono-to-linux-via-intel.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft brings Silverlight \u2013 not Mono \u2013 to Linux via Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I speculated<\/a> about what was meant by the inclusion of Silverlight among supported runtimes for Intel\u2019s Moblin Linux, which is being used on netbooks using the Atom processor. I had assumed it was some new development of Moonlight<\/a>, Mono\u2019s Silverlight implementation, but apparently this is not the case. Here\u2019s what Microsoft\u2019s Brian Goldfarb, director of the Developer Platform Group at Microsoft, said:<\/p>\n

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Microsoft and Intel announced today that the two companies have agreed to work together to bring support for Silverlight 3 to Intel\u2019s Atom-based Mobile Internet Devices (MID). These Atom-based devices run on Windows and Moblin, an open source, Linux-based operating system targeted at Atom-based devices. In order to help bring Silverlight content to these devices, Microsoft has provided Intel with Silverlight source code and test suites, and Intel will provide Microsoft with an optimized version of Silverlight for Moblin devices that Microsoft can then redistribute to OEMs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are a couple of curious aspects to this. One is why Microsoft would not simply feed optimisations into the Moonlight project, which would benefit Silverlight\/Moonlight on all Linux systems. Goldfarb did add:<\/p>\n

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The Silverlight for Moblin announcement is independent from Microsoft\u2019s work with Novell on Moonlight. The Intel\/Moblin effort is specifically about building great out-of-box experiences for consumers on Atom-based devices. Microsoft\u2019s efforts with Novell remain critical as they build an open-source, compatible, and broadly available Silverlight solution for Linux.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another is whether Intel\/Microsoft are devising some way for Silverlight to run as a desktop application, rather than just as a browser plug-in. I\u2019m hopping to clarify these points soon.<\/p>\n

Intel has a press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: silverlight<\/a>,moonlight<\/a>,intel<\/a>,microsoft<\/a>,idf09<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I speculated about what was meant by the inclusion of Silverlight among supported runtimes for Intel\u2019s Moblin Linux, which is being used on netbooks using the Atom processor. I had assumed it was some new development of Moonlight, Mono\u2019s Silverlight implementation, but apparently this is not the case. Here\u2019s what Microsoft\u2019s Brian Goldfarb, director … Continue reading Microsoft brings Silverlight \u2013 not Mono \u2013 to Linux via Intel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,57,77,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-mono","category-silverlight","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}