The authoring tools for Microsoft's Silverlight, the new rich-media Web plug-in, will soon be available for those working on Macs and on open source programs. The software giant hopes to accelerate the use of Silverlight on different operating systems through the funding
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of a project to be undertaken by Soyatec, a France-based IT solutions provider and Eclipse Foundation member. The announcement was made today.
Currently, Silverlight authoring tools are largely limited to PC's, which is surely a limitation to its use as so many in the video production field use Macs.
The company also announced today the release of Silverlight 2.0
On Friday, I interviewed Brian Goldfarb, Group Product Manager for Silverlight. I interviewed him via Skype and the connect was not as good as we would like. But, it's great to catch up with Brian on all the developments with Silverlight. He says the program now resides on computers reaching one in four consumers worldwide.
-- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
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