Microsoft quietly released the bits for beta 2 of Silverlight 2 on Friday last week. This is the version that will power the Olympics and has all of the features announced at MIX earlier this year.
Microsoft quietly released the bits for beta 2 of Silverlight 2 on Friday last week. This is the version that will power the Olympics and has all of the features announced at MIX earlier this year. There seems to be a bit of a performance boost over other Silverlight applications. On Windows the install experience was good and I didn't even have to restart IE. On the Mac however, it's still a case of uninstalling the old version and installing the new version from scratch. I'd expect the install experiences to be different on Mac and Windows just because Microsoft knows a heck of a lot more about Windows than OS X, but I hope they can do some kind of seamless install for Mac when Silverlight is released.
