June 9th, 2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released
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.
There a bunch of new Beta 2 samples to check out. I’m a fan of the Airline demo.
