Filed under: Developer, Games, Novell, Open Source
You've surely heard of Silverlight, Microsoft's shinier and altogether more-fluffy answer to Flash. Silverlight is now at the stage where the only real feature it lacks is ubiquity -- the only real reason we keep using Flash is because the plug-in is installed on almost every computer in the world. Well, Microsoft wants to change that -- Microsoft wants Silverlight to be as prevalent as Flash. To that end, we just reported on Silverlight coming to Symbian phones -- and now it seems like the iPhone might also run Silverlight apps... but with Moonlight, Novell's open source, cross-platform Silverlight implementation. Full story...