MS Silverlight Goes General Availability with V1.0

Today (Sept 5th,07) Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 1.0, the fully supported version of its cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media and rich experiences on the Web.

Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser. Some of its features include:

• Built-in codec support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and MP3 and WMA audio within a browser
• the ability to progressively download and play media content from any web-server
• Silverlight supports built-in media streaming
• Silverlight enables you to create rich UI and animations, and blend vector graphics with HTML to create compelling content experiences (read our coverage of Tafiti)
• Silverlight makes it easy to build rich video player interactive experiences

Download the Final Release of Silverlight 1.0!

You can watch some showcases HERE!

For Windows Mobile users, Silverlight developer has already a prototype for you. Watch this video from MEDC2007. However the availability on mobile platform is still unknown.

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