The Microsoft Silverlight team issued an official supplemental statement on the PDC meeting (Fengyun translation Edition)

Last week, we held our PDC meeting at Redmond on Microsoft campus. More than 100,000 developers have used Silverlight for live streaming (with real-time and on-demand meetings) to watch the live broadcast. If you have no chance to attend this meeting, I recommend you watch it online.

During the meeting, we talked about the details about Silverlight in other things, including the Windows phone7 and Silverlight Technologies, which we highlighted at the meeting. The meeting was accurately reported. However, I was surprised that this caused some controversy and confusion. This is not our purpose. I want to apologize for it. I want to use thisArticleDescribe the position of the Microsoft Silverlight team and discuss the important role of Silverlight in the future development of Microsoft.

Several things I want to emphasize during the meeting:

1. Silverlight is very important to Microsoft and has always been Microsoft's strategy.
2. We are working hard to develop the next version of Silverlight, and it will continue to improve cross-browser and cross-platform, and can run on Windows and Mac.
3. Silverlight is a Windows application development platform. It can provide technical support for the Windows phone7 platform.
Although we have not publicly announced the release date of the next version of Silverlight, we will publish more information about it in the coming months.

Last week, we release some important changes for Silverlight 4. It took only six months to add many new features and development tools to it. Last week, the improved WCF Ria service was updated. The new "portable library project" is easier to shareProgramSet to SL desktop applications, SL phone, WPF, and
. NET Server. John Papa introduced how to create a commercial application project based on Silverlight 4 during the PDC Conference, and Shawn Burke introduced this portable library during the PDC Conference, we recommend that you take a look at the relevant Silverlight content.

Silverlight Policy

For some people who say "our Silverlight policy has been transferred", I would like to say that this will never happen. On the contrary, I will answer about our Silverlight policy.

The following describes some development trends of Silverlight.

1. Users are asking for more experience, and Silverlight developers are gradually creating richer applications, accumulating experience in optimizing specific devices.
Silverlight provides a wide range of methods to build customers' applications. Especially based on Silverlight 4, we are using enterprise application development and now provide a prominent platform, and can create Ria applications outside the browser.

2. the user wants to obtain experience related to optimization for specific factors.
Silverlight can develop rich UI frameworks and smooth animation effects, as well as support embedded devices with touch functions. Last week at PDC, we spent a lot of time talking about WP7 and introduced how Silverlight can be used to develop excellent applications for this great platform.
In the United States, there are already more than 1,000 Silverlight applications on the Windows phone7 platform in just a few days, and consumers of WP7 will be able to buy these applications in a comprehensive market. Recently, we demonstrated that Silverlight applications run on embedded devices, and Silverlight is a part of our three-screen policy.

3. Users want high-quality videos and support Internet Multimedia acceleration (this article will not translate ~).

4 finally, it is provided in a wide range of vendors to do the wide and wide difference of the device and the closed system. When we start Silverlight, the only difference is that the devices connected to the Internet are relatively small, and our goal is to provide the most consistent RIA experience across those devices.
But the world has changed. As a result, our Silverlight Runtime is actually impossible to install on each potential device. We believe that HTML will provide the widest range of support across platforms across all of these devices. At Microsoft, we replied that running HTML 5 for a device running Windows can achieve this goal. In PDC, we showed that
We are making progress and doing these things on IE 9.

Summary: Silverlight has never been used to replace html. On the contrary, Silverlight cannot be used in HTML (other technologies are required), and developers can conveniently complete this process. Silverlight enables enterprise-level application software and rich media experience. It is currently used by more than 600,000 developers around the world, and Silverlight is installed on 2 of the world.
Do not make mistakes; We (Microsoft) will continue to invest in Silverlight and enable developers to use Silverlight to build large-scale application software and application experience in the future.
Supplement: the Microsoft Silverlight team issued this statement in English, which was translated by Fengyun and transferred to Silverlight fans. The level-limited translation content is for your reference only and is not an official Chinese version of Microsoft.

Microsoft Silverlight team
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