Intel and Microsoft have announced cooperation to introduce Microsoft's sliverlight into the Linux operating system.

 

Intel and Microsoft have recently announced cooperation to introduce Microsoft's sliverlight to the Linux operating system, so that thisProgramIt can run on Intel's moblin operating system and add sliverlight to"Atom Developer ProgramIn this way, sliverlight will become an important part of Microsoft's appstore. The moblin operating system is based on Linux and is a product dedicated by Intel to correspond to atom-based netbooks.

Microsoft has provided intel with sliverlight'sSource codeAnd testing tools, while Intel will release a specially optimized moblin version for sliverlight, Microsoft will provide this version to OEMs.

This cooperation was somewhat surprising. At present, Microsoft is already cooperating with Novell In the moonlight program, which is specifically responsible for introducing the Silverlight program into the Linux system. Why does it seem like repeated cooperation with intel in this regard? To this end, we asked Microsoft's senior executive Brian Goldfarb. He explained to us that the two cooperation items are of different nature. The cooperation with Microsoft is a version optimized specifically for Intel's atom netbook system moblin, working with Novell is a universal version of various Linux systems.

Brian Goldfarb expects the moblin sliverlight project to be completed in the summer of next year. He also said that Microsoft will reveal details about the product at the MIX exhibition in March.

Other programs supported by the Intel Atom netbook platform include NativeCode, Java, Adobe AIR, etc. However, these applications are desktop applications, while sliverlight is browser-based. Although sliverlight's latest version 3.0 can run independently from the browser, but it still needs the support of the browser to run. Will intel develop sliverlight into a desktop program that can be completely separated from the browser? "I know very little about this, but I think it is unlikely," Goldfarb said ."

Sliverlight's strong support from Intel is obviously a good thing, and the message from the cooperation between the two parties to develop a special version of sliverlight also has a certain publicity Effect on sliverlight, bringing sliverlight to the same level as Adobe AIR, the latter seems to be more suitable for a moblin-based netbook system.

Another interesting question is, since it is so easy to import sliverlight into Linux, why should they step on two ships and cooperate with Novell to carry out the moonlight program?

To this end, Goldfarb said: "We will abide by the promises we made when we set up the moonlight project. We believe that Miguel and moonlight are part of our core strategy, and we will stick to our Linux strategy to the end ." -- It seems that he is a little angry with this question, so that the answer is even a little protest.