Official Support for Moonlight

Yesterday Microsoft released to the Web Silverlight but in the same press release announced support for Mono's Moonlight project as the official Silverlight implementation on Linux.

This shows quite a significant commitment from Microsoft to really make Silverlight a true cross platform solution and the biggest official support for an open source project to date. It's also a very promising sign to see Microsoft choosing to partner with Novell/Mono on realising their vision of a true cross-platform, cross-browser browser plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the web instead of providing their own implementation. This is certainly a big boost for the Mono Project who has put significant effort into the Moonlight implementation over the past couple of months.

Now developers can develop Silverlight content with the assurance that their content will run with official support on Windows, Mac and now Linux.

For some examples of Silverlight in action see this post by Scott Guthrie, in particular Jose Fajardo's iTunes implementation series of posts.

[Update:See Miguel de Icaza's announcement for more information] 

[via Scott Cate on Twitter]

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