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Its actually being released tomorrow.
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While Adobe has been getting most of the press recently for their 10.1 RC, Microsoft has quietly announced their plans to release the final version of Silverlight 4.0 as early as next week. This major update will provide more fundamental changes than prior iterations, including Google Chrome support, better performance (up to 200% over Silverlight 3), improved with digital signing and sandboxing, and greater control for developers.
Silverlight will also be the primary development environment for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series platform -- the full programming model, not a mobile version -- so those interested in writing apps for these devices may want to tune in to see what's coming. The company is offering a Windows Phone 7 development toolkit for free, including Silverlight, Expression Blend for Windows Phone and a preview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express.
The release candidate of Silverlight 4 has been available for since mid-March 2010, with Microsoft releasing the preview code at the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas. A quick overview of new features can be found here, or you can opt for the gritty details in this technical white paper (Word 2007 format).
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Source: Silverlight 4.0 to be released this month - TechSpot News
Its actually being released tomorrow.
@Crispy: Fix your BB tags
And yet I continue to have no use for Silverlight. Yes it's powerful, but it doesn't seem to be much of a Flash competitor. And the fact that Youtube has an HTML5 player that doesn't use an flash to play videos (opt-in beta) means Flash is gonna die soon, maybe not altogether, but it's going to replaced with HTML5.
I'm just your average everyday computer user. What does Silverlight mean to me? Is it doing anything as I go about my day to day activites?
Thanks,
Bill