Solve : What does "Silverlight" do??

1.	Solve : What does "Silverlight" do??
Answer» Hi - I am running Vista Home Basic 32 BIT. I recently went from Internet Explorer 7 to IE 8. When I look at "All Programs" I see one named "Microsoft Silverlight". How do I find out what it does and how do I use it? Is there a website that I can log onto and get an explanation of programs? Thanks Bob http://www.silverlight.netIt's basically a censored version of Flash that MS want's you to insist you have...It's a light version of Windows PRESENTATION Foundation, a newer DPI independent and composition-based window management framework, designed for use on the web. Quote from: PATIO on October 22, 2010, 08:15:37 PM It's basically a censored version of Flash that MS want's you to insist you have... Hardly. Although I think it is limited to Windows platforms (since WPF is pretty reliant on DirectX) it's interesting to note that it didn't take infinity+1 years for them to create a 64-bit version, since .NET requires no particular extra effort if you write the program right. Of course neither would C++, but clearly there is something censored in flash if it takes a good number of years just to create a 64-bit version. Flash is ok for movies but considering that firefox and other browsers pretty much needed to run plugins in separate processes specifically because flash crashes so much it makes me wonder how context-sensitive your definition of "censored" might be.Hi - Thanks to those who replied. You answered my question and it is apparent I don't need it. I try to keep things as simple as possible and my NEEDS are few. I don't use the computer much. Thanks again. Bob

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I am running Vista Home Basic 32 BIT. I recently went from Internet Explorer 7 to IE 8. When I look at "All Programs" I see one named "Microsoft Silverlight". How do I find out what it does and how do I use it? Is there a website that I can log onto and get an explanation of programs?
Thanks Bob
http://www.silverlight.netIt's basically a *censored* version of Flash that MS want's you to insist you have...It's a light version of Windows PRESENTATION Foundation, a newer DPI independent and composition-based window management framework, designed for use on the web.

Quote from: PATIO on October 22, 2010, 08:15:37 PM

It's basically a *censored* version of Flash that MS want's you to insist you have...

Hardly. Although I think it is limited to Windows platforms (since WPF is pretty reliant on DirectX) it's interesting to note that it didn't take infinity+1 years for them to create a 64-bit version, since .NET requires no particular extra effort if you write the program right. Of course neither would C++, but clearly there is something *censored* in flash if it takes a good number of years just to create a 64-bit version. Flash is ok for movies but considering that firefox and other browsers pretty much needed to run plugins in separate processes specifically because flash crashes so much it makes me wonder how context-sensitive your definition of "*censored*" might be.Hi -
Thanks to those who replied. You answered my question and it is apparent I don't need it. I try to keep things as simple as possible and my NEEDS are few. I don't use the computer much. Thanks again. Bob

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