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Microsoft just released Silverlight in September, a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering media experiences and interactive applications for the Web. A direct competitor to Adobe’s market dominant Flash application, Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, Visual C#, Visual Basic, and other languages. Developers are lining up to get started with Silverlight and take advantage of the powerful WPF graphics platform. Wrox Press is releasing SILVERLIGHT 1.0 (Wrox Press, an imprint of Wiley; $39.99; October 2007), a one-of-a-kind reference with full-color illustrations shows developers how to create rich interactive applications with Silverlight. (more…)

Microsoft has released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering a richer user experiences on the Web.

“Silverlight is a popular new way to build and deliver cross-browser, cross-platform experiences on the Web,” said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of Developer Platforms and leader of the Mono project at Novell. “Novell is excited to work with Microsoft to extend

Silverlight beyond Windows and Macintosh to Linux with Moonlight, so Linux users everywhere can enhance their rich media and interactive experiences on the Web.” As of now more than 35 companies have already signed up to support Silverlight.
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Ted Says:

1. Flex is available today and works.

2. Flex 2 is viewable in 85+% of web browsers, Flex 2 SWF files run in Flash Player 9.

3. You can use any HTTP Server and any backend technology (.NET,JAVA,PHP,Ruby,CF, Python) with Flex via XML, SOAP, Sockets, ZLIB, Etc. (more…)

Straight from Arpit’s Blog,  I agree with the idea of thinking about the usability and creativity despite of caring about any Technology. Although my thoughts always get inclined towards OpenSource options but still if a tech can deliver better than any available than we surely go for it. I repeat that our motto should be to use technology work for us do not work for a technology with blind eyes. It will never be beneficial for the technological world J.

As he said that there “has been a lot of new activity in the UI world: Apollo, Silverlight, JavaFX, WPF and now Ted Patrick’s sneak peeks on the new features of Flex 3, and a lot of people have very strong sentiments about it”. It looks like technology is driving us we aren’t driving it. In this way the end-user and their requirement will be lost or molded according to the technology offered.

Silverlight can be a technology sharing the same space as of Flash but it can not fade the rainbow colors of Flash apps. Today RIA is being driven on Flash platform and silverlight will be just a step of improvement in this era. If  we keep OpenSource fundamental theories in mind we will realize that A competition or improvement always enhances the product. I am expecting lots of new changes in Flash platform for the betterment just because of the competition and no doubt will be always beneficial for the end-user. J

Lets be focused….