Comments on: Microsoft ready for Silverlight's second act

The software maker announces Silverlight 2 and new partners. Despite big numbers for the Olympics, though, Silverlight usage still vastly trails that of its dominant rival, Adobe Flash.

[Mr. Dee]

Will this new version support 64-bit Internet Explorer? My browser on Vista 64 bit end up defaulting to 64-bit IE and when I tried watching the videos on Channel9, they wouldn't play until I found out it was the lack of a 64 bit Silverlight plug in for IE 7 64-bit.

[Dalkorian]

LOL - there is nothing you said there that I don't find hilarious.

[DrtyDogg]

I've had no problem with the silverlight 2 beta on Vista 64

[scoinva]

Put SilverLight into new Windows Mobile OS mixed in the Zune application and take on Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone. Be innovative and mesh it up before someone else does. Increase our productivity and quality of life.

[kenpm]

"Microsoft on Monday announced, as expected, that it is ready with a final version of its Silverlight 2 media player"

Media player? Ina, Silverlight goes way beyond the ability to play media files. It's a cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework which opens up huge possibilties. Calling Silverlight a media player is like calling Java a gaming API for cell phones. They both do so much more.

[Hardcode]

Ina, you might want to cruise over to Silverlight.net to get a good idea of what Silverlight actually is before the next article.

[j_a_s_p_e_r]

I have to agree with kenpm and Hardcode... Silverlight is NOT a media player. Its a development platform, streaming media is just one of its capabilities. It supports quite a substantial subset of .net. Look at the Silverlight showcase, its more representative of the capabilities than the MSNBC Olympic video streaming

[j_a_s_p_e_r]

I have to agree with kenpm and Hardcode... Silverlight is NOT a media player. Its a development platform, streaming media is just one of its capabilities. It supports quite a substantial subset of .net. Look at the Silverlight showcase, its more representative of the capabilities than the MSNBC Olympic video streaming