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What is Microsoft Silverlight?
Award-winning* Microsoft® Silverlight™ provides designers and developers with a cross-platform solution for delivering richly interactive experiences for the Web and beyond. The technology integrates with existing Web technologies and assets to provide higher-quality experiences with lower costs for media delivery. Delivered to end-users through a seamless, fast installation, Silverlight supports multiple operating systems (including Apple Macintosh OS X) and combines 2-D animation, video and audio within a lightweight yet flexible browser plug-in (currently under 2 MB).

Here are just a few of the compelling key benefits of the Microsoft Silverlight platform:

  • Deliver media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web that incorporate video, animation, interactivity and stunning user interfaces

  • Seamless, fast installation for users, thanks to a small, on-demand, easy-to-install plug-in that is less than 2 megabytes (MB) in size and works with all leading browsers

  • Consistent experiences between Windows-based and Macintosh computers without any additional installation requirements

  • Create richer, more compelling Web experiences that take greater advantage of the client for increased performance

  • Enhance existing standards/AJAX-based applications with richer graphics and media and improve their performance and capabilities

  • Simple integration with existing Web technologies and assets means Silverlight works with any back-end environment or technology – no “rip and replace” required. Silverlight integrates with your existing infrastructure and applications, including Apache, PHP, as well as JavaScript and XHTML on the client

  • Powerful encoding tools for live and on-demand publishing of media experiences with Microsoft Expression Media Encoder, including hardware-accelerated encoding of WMV and VC-1 at up to 15 times the performance of software alone when paired with a Tarari Encoder Accelerator board

  • Role-specific tools for both designers and developers that take advantage of Web standards and the breadth of the Microsoft .NET–connected software features
*2007 Digital Video Black Diamond Award and 2007 CNET Webware 100 Award

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