Breaking news: Silverlight 1.0 Released!

Hot off the presses, Microsoft has released Silverlight 1.0! For those unfamiliar with Silverlight, it’s a lightweight add-in that works with most browsers. It allows you to display incredibly rich content in the browser. Version 1.0 uses AJAX libraries to handle multimedia content, games and more.

Read the Microsoft Press Release at:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-04SilverlightPR.mspx

There is an interview with Scott Guthrie on Channel 9, you can see it here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=339594

You can download Silverlight and learn more about it at the Silverlight site:

http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx

or the Microsoft page (slightly different content)

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

Scott Guthrie has a really informative post on his blog:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/09/04/silverlight-1-0-released-and-silverlight-for-linux-announced.aspx 

If you want to see an example of a Silverlight site, visit the Alabama Code Camp site at:

http://www.alabamacodecamp.com/home.html

Sweet.

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