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title: "Poll: What do you think of Microsoft Silverlight?"
date: 2007-04-30
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
---

# Poll: What do you think of Microsoft Silverlight?

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20110501145347im_/http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/images/silverlight_logo_mix.gif)As noted in [our coverage](https://web.archive.org/web/20110501145347/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ray_ozzie_keyno_1.php) of Ray Ozzie’s MIX keynote this morning, Microsoft has released a number of significant upgrades to its [Silverlight](https://web.archive.org/web/20110501145347/http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/) product. Silverlight is essentially a competitor to Adobe’s Flash, in that enables developers to create interactive web apps. It’s officially described as “a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET’based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.” [Ryan Stewart’s definition](https://web.archive.org/web/20110501145347/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=356) puts it in context of Microsoft’s other dev platforms:

> “You can build desktop applications with Windows Presentation Foundation, build web-only applications with ASP.NET AJAX and now the hybrid Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight.”

The enhancements announced today for Silverlight include integration with .NET and support for dynamic languages – including Python and Ruby. Microsoft also announced new tool support for building Silverlight applications, with Expression Studio and the next edition of Visual Studio, code-named “Orcas”.

Tell us what you think of the new-look Silverlight in this week’s poll, below.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_silverlight.php))*