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Microsoft to work with Novell on Silverlight for Linux
Silverlight 1.0 is finished and available for download, Microsoft announced today.
Microsoft also said it has entered into a formal partnership with Novell to develop Silverlight for Linux. This implementation, known as Moonlight, will support the Firefox, Konqueror, and Opera browsers and Silverlight's v1.0 and v1.1 programming models, according to Microsoft's Scott Guthrie.
Silverlight has been posed as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash client plug-in, but it is also poised as delivery mechanism for YouTube-style video on browsers running on a variety of machines. In a statement, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Silverlight will further accelerate ''the growth in rich interactive applications by giving developers and designers new options for delivering great experiences that span the Web, PC, phone and other devices.''
The Novell Moonlight move was preceded by a skunk works effort by its Mono team, led by Miguel de Icaza, to port Silverlight to Linux. On his blog, de Icaza said the Microsoft-Novell announcement represents ''an historical collaboration between an open-source project and Microsoft.''
According to de Icaza:
*Microsoft will give Novell access to the test suites for Silverlight to ensure that we have a compatible specification. The same test suite that Microsoft uses for Silverlight;
*Microsoft will give Novell access to the Silverlight specifications: details that might be necessary to implement 1.0, beyond what is currently published on the web; and specifications on the 1.1 version of Silverlight as it is updated; and
*Microsoft will make the codecs for video and audio available to users of Moonlight from their web site. The codecs will be binary codecs, and they will only be licensed for use with Moonlight on a web browser.
Read more on SearchVB.com
http://searchvb.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid8_gci1270773,00.html
Read Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on Silverlight on Miquel de Icaza’s web log
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-05.html
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Makes sense
If you've been following Miguel De Icaza's posts about Moonlight, this shouldn't come as a surprise. However, it surprised me to read so many Microsoft bashing comments on other sites that posted this announcement, even though Microsoft obviously seeks to extend an olive branch here. Clearly, MS has a lot of bad will to clean up.
I, for one, couldn't be happier with this release, if only because it brings us that much closer to Silverlight 1.1, where the real magic happens. :) Being a Linux user, of course the MS-Novell agreement made me a little wary, but if it "had" to happen, then hopefully more constructive things like this will come out of it.
David Miles
dieAJAX.com
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