Yes, you read that correctly. Microsoft is going to work with Novell's Mono Project on their Silverlight clone called Moonlight. With the release to the Web of Silverlight 1.0, the cool new cross-browser, cross-platform technology for developing rich media experiences and interactive applications, Microsoft...

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The Mono project has announced a plan to produce a Silverlight alternative called Moonlight. I am pretty excited about it. But first, a little background about Mono. Mono support for VistaDB 3 Run your Dot Net app under Linux / Unix. This is one of the coolest features of VistaDB 3 (to me). The fact...

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I got a lot of responses about the previous Silverlight blog, so I wanted to expand it a little here from follow up talks with Microsoft and answer a few questions I saw over and over. What is it? Silverlight is a new technology that runs in your browser as a plugin. But it does NOT just have to be IE...

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