Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie, here at Mix07, have announced the addition of a cross-platform .NET runtime within Silverlight, Microsoft’s browser plug-in for streaming video and rich internet applications.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure this counts as a major announcement – after all, this very thing was talked about here at Mix last year. What is new though is that you can download the alpha<\/a> from today, for Windows and Mac. Nothing has been said yet about timing, but I guess the fact that this is described as alpha implies a significant wait before a final release.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, this is a critical development for Silverlight, particularly as Adobe’s Flash now has a JIT-compiled Javascript runtime that in language terms is not that far removed from C#. Differentiation may be mainly in the runtime library that is available, and of course Visual Studio integration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie, here at Mix07, have announced the addition of a cross-platform .NET runtime within Silverlight, Microsoft’s browser plug-in for streaming video and rich internet applications. I’m not sure this counts as a major announcement – after all, this very thing was talked about here at Mix last year. What is … Continue reading Silverlight with cross-platform .NET runtime announced, alpha download available<\/span>