Microsoft introduces beta version of Silverlight 2

16th March 2008

Microsoft Corporation at the MIX 08 conference in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), introduced the beta version of their three new software products: Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 platform and designersâ€™ tool set Expression Studio 2.
The new release of Internet explorer has recently been highlighted in our column.
The beta-version of the 2 Silverlight technology has become a complex update of the programmatic platform Silverlight designed to work with interactive web applications. Silverlight 2 realizes improved support of network protocols, four dozen of additional elements of management and a number of innovative features, in particular, the system of Deep Zoom. Using the platform Silverlight 2, developers will be able to create web applications of enhanced features and .Net tools. You can work with such applications will be able, through browsers of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari for computers running under Windows and Mac OS X. In addition, Microsoft announced an intention to support Silverlight under the platforms of Windows Mobile and S60 for Symbian OS.
As for the designersâ€™ package Expression Studio 2, its key innovation is the support of PHP in Expression Web, as well as the support of Silverlight in Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Media Encoder and Expression Design.