At the end of alengthy blog poston the future of Silverlight and its relationship with HTML5, the Silverlight team let loose a piece information that wenearly already knew: that the beta version Silverlight 5 will be released at this year’s MIX event.
From the Silverlight post: “As part of the continued support for scenarios that require plug-in based capabilities, we will ship a beta of Silverlight 5 at MIX, with some great demos for compelling scenarios.”
Rumored to be a part of the Silverlight 5 announcement is the much-anticipated Xbox functionality that would in one swoop add significant turf to the Silverlight realm, and dig deeper its position inside of the Windows Phone 7 ecosystem.
From ourprevious coverage, this is what is generally expected to ship inside of the 5th version of Silverlight:
Silverlight, long nearly written off by boththe pressand the larger technology community, seems to now be making a comeback that is putting it right back on the map.
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Alex Wilhelm is a San Francisco-based writer. You can find Alex on Twitter, and on Facebook. You can reach Alex via email at alex@thenextweb(show all)Alex Wilhelm is a San Francisco-based writer. You can find Alex onTwitter,and onFacebook.You can reach Alex via email atalex@thenextweb.com
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