martymas Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 any one know what is the purpose of the up date silverlighti installed it but i couldnt find it and after searching i found it in my documentsi tried to access it but i couldnt find a way to open it it was sending me round in circlesthe help files dont HELPi saw a post from pete_cwho said he installed and forgot it was thereso obviously it isnt important other wise microsoft would be on our tails any ideasmarty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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isteve Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 If you watched any of the Olympics online this year you probably were using silverlight. I think it's Microsoft first step in to a cloud computing platform. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 If you watched any of the Olympics online this year you probably were using silverlight. I think it's Microsoft first step in to a cloud computing platform.It's a very long step. The underlying platform is somewhere between six and fifteen years old. [Edit: At least six if you only count .NET, twelve if you include .NET's immediate ancestors, J++ and COM, fifteen if you include Java. Silverlight is a 'better Java plug-in' the same way .NET (like J++ before it) is a 'better Java'.] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted September 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 (edited) thanks team after reading set hooks linkit seems silverlight is a developers toolbut as a curious user ile have a look at it with your helpsince i installed vista i seem to be learning all over again from win xpprobut i enjoy the challengetho ime not as tech minded as most of youthanks team for your helpappreciatedmarty Edited September 22, 2008 by martymas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 thanks team after reading set hooks linkit seems silverlight is a developers toolSilverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash: a browser plug-in that supports 'rich' Web applications. The only real-world applications of it that I can remember encountering are the NBC Olympics site (which almost worked sometimes) and a few Microsoft sites.(As I said above, Silverlight is in a sense an evolution of the Java plug-in. One of the improvements is that it's failed in the market immediately instead of slowly withering away over several years as Java applets did.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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