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[_] [SPAM BL] Microsoft introduces Silverlight; Adobe wet themselves?

Richard Davey rich at corephp.co.uk
Wed May 2 14:06:09 BST 2007

Tim Gaunt wrote:

>> then for "un-supported" versions of Windows (anything pre Vista) 
>> it never will.

> The entire engine is wrapped in a 1.4MB or something installer that is
> downloaded the first time you require it -a little like Flash so even the
> illegal copies of Windows will be able to support it -not to mention Macs
> and Linux...

No Linux support, and no pre XP SP2 support either. This is a very next 
gen technology, although it's a shame it is missing some of the most 
interesting parts of WPF (accelerated 3D in particular), with that 
included it could have been incredible - but then they'd never have got 
it even remotely cross platform.

Cheers,

Rich
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