by Mark Hachman 10.13.08
On Tuesday, Microsoft will release the second version of Silverlight, its answer to Adobe's Flash technology, Microsoft said Monday. For those users with Silverlight already installed, the upgrade process should be seamless, as Silverlight will automatically update itself over the short term. Silverlight 2.0 offers changes for both the developer and the user. Probably the thing that leapt out at me was the addition of Silverlight DRM, powered by Microsoft's own PlayReady digital-rights-management software, which offers "robust content protection for connected Silverlight experiences". In the past, those connected Silverlight experiences have included Olympics coverage on NBCOlympics.com, which included 70 million video streams viewed by 50 million unique people, according to Microsoft. Microsoft also claimed that CBS College Sports, Blockbuster, Hard Rock Cafe, Yahoo Japan, AOL, Toyota, HSN and Tencent are building "their next-generation experiences" on Silverlight.
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