Silverlight 2 Release

The Silverlight 2 has finally release. Silverlight 2 has been beta for some time, but now it has release it stable build. Well good news for Windows user but not Linux user.

For non-technical people, what is Silverlight? It is another version of Flash but not develop by Adobe but develop by Microsoft. It has been slowly gaining popularity in the internet world. Well for most people, it has nothing much different, as long as it can work out at your favorite website. So just grab one today if your favorite website need Silverlight but you have no confidence on the beta version. Silverlight 2 download. You no need to uninstall the previous version in order to install the latest one, which Microsoft has done a very great job to make our life easier.

In the other hands, it was great news to developer like me. Finally we can safe to implement something on this. It has make life easier than before compare with version 1. If you previously already install Silverlight 2 SDK, you might have an error installing Silverlight 2 in the link above, but try this Silverlight 2 for developer download. Don't get confuse with Silverlight 2 SDK, the SDK still in beta, this is just the run time.

Conclusion, Silverlight 2 might be something that can stand again Flash. For non-technical people, just get both as long as it works for the most website. For developer, if you never try on Silverlight 2, but know how to program in C# or WPF, just give it a try, it is easy. I’m still waiting for the SDK to go out from beta. I’m still waiting for the SDK to go out from beta. Besides I’m still waiting Silverlight to fully workable on Linux platform too.