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Microsoft Silverlight for Linux

Posted by Jason in Linux on May 15th, 2008

The equivalent of ’s Silverlight but for operating systems is available for as of May 13, 2008, under the label . According to the official description of the , is nothing more than the open source implementation of Silverlight, tailored for UNIX systems. With this latest step in the evolution of Silverlight, can finally claim that the is truly cross-platform, because ahead of the May 13 public release of , support was available exclusively for and Mac OS X operating systems.

is a project developed in parallel with Silverlight, but not by the Redmond company. In fact, partnered with Mono, an open source project backed by , in order to port Silverlight to . At this point in time is still in development, and as such comes with the inherent problems associated with any Beta. (more…)

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XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Will Own Linux-Free Desktops until Windows 7

Posted by Jason in Linux, Windows Vista, Windows XP on April 18th, 2008

Even though with the advent of Vista the open source saw the ripe moment for to strengthen its grip over consumer PCs, the fact of the matter is that still holds a firm grip over the vast majority of desktops worldwide. And there is no change visible on the horizon, especially as the two largest vendors of operating systems have no plans to go against . Neither nor feel that has sufficient driving force behind it in order to go against , which until 7 will largely be represented by XP Service Pack 3 and Vista SP1.

President and CEO Ronald Hovsepian, revealed to InformationWorld that will fail to become popular until 7, and even beyond. The immediate reason for this is the slow pace at which the consumer market is growing. “The market for the desktop for the next three to five years is mainly enterprise-related,” Hovsepian explained. As a direct consequence, is focusing the bulk of its efforts on winning over corporate desktops and enthusiasts. (more…)

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