Microsoft has decided the following version of its Silverlight Flash-competitor is more worthy of a two.0 moniker than a 1.1 one.On November 29, Developer Division Basic Supervisor Scott Guthrie blogged that Microsoft has decided to rechristen its next Silverlight release as 2.0. Microsoft ideas to make a beta build of the next edition of Silverlight offered beneath a “Go Live” license in the first quarter of 2008,
Windows 7 Professional Key, Guthrie added. (A Go-Live license allows users/developers to begin deploying applications in production based about the beta.)Microsoft made an alpha edition of Silverlight one.one (now Silverlight two.0) available to testers in April 2007. The final edition of Silverlight two.0 is due out in 2008.Microsoft shipped Silverlight one.0 for Windows and the Mac OS platforms earlier this fall. Silverlight 2.0 adds support for ASP.Net Ajax, Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and JavaScript, as well as support for Visual Basic, C#,
Windows 7 Home Basic X86, Python and Ruby, which it will make readily available via a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer.Novell is building a edition of Silverlight 2.0 that will run on Linux, which is code-named Moonlight.Microsoft is positioning Silverlight — formerly codenamed “Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Key,” or WPF/E — not only as a multimedia player,
Office Professional, but also as a development and delivery vehicle for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).I;ll be interested to see if Microsoft ends up using Silverlight as a way to deliver applications like Word in the not-too-distant future,
Office 2007 Ultimate Key, a la Adobe;s Buzzword. I bet it;s not a matter of “if” the company will do so; it;s much more a question of when. Do you agree?