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Comes another silver light from Microsoft, as it is all set to release Silverlight 2.0, which has until now been in beta stage.

It seems that the second version to get out of its beta phase and will become the public that today is Tuesday, 14 October 2008. Touted as his rival of Adobe Flash, Silverlight is a web-application programmable web-browser plug-in, which was said to be in the multi-flash.

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 is reported to come up with new features and Internet tools, wrapped in it, including support for Microsoft is very own. NET Framework, programming languages such as Visual Basic, C #, IronPython and IronRuby.

Other features include applications cross-platform and cross-browser support for Mac, Windows and Linux in Firefox, Safari and Windows Internet Explorer. Also comes support for the rest, WAS * / SOAP, POX, RSS, and standard HTTP services.

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 is also boasts a modern and better protection for the content server extend scalability with advertiser support. The rest are built-in controls, which include DataGrid, listbox, slider, ScrollViewer, calendar and other controls and quick-zoom navigation ultra-high resolution imagery. [silverlight]

Microsoft whipped open their wallets again and colossal waving and medium-heavy 486 million U.S. dollars wad in the direction of Greenfield, owners of the popular price comparison website ciao.com. [digital-lifestyles]

Microsoft is set to stop selling long-serving Windows XP operating system, retailers and the major computer makers like today, when the company shunting all the new customers to its newer Vista operating system.

This news has not fallen to a very large slice of Windows users who really do not like being part of using the resource-hogging, the eye candy to treat XP’s successor, but despite Internet campaigns, petitions and calls to keep soldiering XP, Microsoft seems hell bent on retiring to a respectable operating system.

Users will be able to continue to buy XP-powered PCs from big PC makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, as long as stocks are, but when the XP inventory has been cleared, the only way to get back to XP would fork out for Vista Ultimate or Vista Business Editions, and then legally “reduction in the costs of XP.

However, Microsoft will allow the smaller PC shops built to buy XP for the purpose of resale until january at the end of next year, a version of XP available for the remainder of fast-growing markets, low cost ultra-mobile PCs, such as Asus EEE.

Microsoft Stops Selling XP to large RetailersFor they are to be adhered to, XP, Microsoft has at least said it would extend technical support for a further five years until 2014. (via)