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- Moonlight
- An open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight from the Mono project. Moonlight provides a runtime engine that allows Silverlight applications to run on Linux and also provides a Linux...
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ZDNet Resources
- Microsoft officially 'extends support' for Novell's Silverlight Linux port
- On September 5, Microsoft announced that the 1.0 version of its Silverlight competitor to Flash is now done and the final bits are available via the Web to any and all users. Microsoft also announced it is officially has "extended support" for Novell's port of Silverlight to...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Moonlight, Ramji, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Moonlight to pump up Linux desktop, Microsoft's OpenXML standards effort?
- Microsoft is cooperating with Novell on a project code-named "Moonlight" to port its Silverlight web development tool to Linux. On its face, this is big news because it is Microsoft's first real contribution to the open source desktop, reports Miguel de Icaza, of GNOME fame, and...
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Linux Desktop, Microsoft Silverlight, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Moonlight, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
Additional Resources
- Diadem of Maunstraut (zip)
- Diadem of Maunstraut is the first full-length English fan game made with Sword of Moonlight: The King's Field Making Tool. It is a first person perspective action-RPG with a dark medieval setting. It is traditional to the King's Field series only in controls and certain enemies, items and equipment; the...
- Tags: Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership
- Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnershipWhy would you want your competition...selling your product and why would you want to sell your competitions product? I would like to believe this is being done for the good of the customer.I'm trying to think of any other industry where this kind of relationship...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, partnership, Companies, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Linux partnership
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate itRE: really bad storyIt is a slow news day for me. But I thought it was one of the better breakdowns I'd seen and I'm also fishing for .NET/Mac hints.=Ryanreally bad storymust be a slow news day... they blog about...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Blogging, Microsoft Silverlight, Expression Blend
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge economy, killer application, Web browser, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- It's not often when a piece of technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Streaming Video, Microsoft Corp., De Icaza, Linux, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Open Source, Digital Video, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It's a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft's longtime leader won't usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3
- Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- News to know: Microsoft-Yahoo talks (again); OLPC; Gmail themes; Firefox 3.0
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and Yahoo: A new deal in the works? BoomTown: Microsoft to Buy Just Yahoo's Search Business? NYT: In Reversal, Microsoft Proposes...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight
- Novell produces lead pony for SilverlightGood Job MiguelWhen push comes to shove Microsoft WILL unleash the lawyers.Miguel and his friends at Novell have already taken hold of the ropes and pulled the Trojan horse inside the gates. However unlike Troy, the majority of the Trojans in this case are on...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Silverlight, Novell Inc., Mono, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-17
- Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight
- Something has always bothered me about Novell's Mono project. Those feelings came together this week with the release of Moonlight, Novell's implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux. It wasn't Miguel deIcaza's blog post on the software. This is not beta ware, he wrote. It's...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Pony, Linux, Open Source, .Net, Development Tools, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public versionCorrections/Silverlight for Linux/Silverlight for Novell Linux/that's so irrelevantWhy zdnnet is still writting about Novell & Moonlight? They are both fading into oblivion because their M$ pact and nobody cares about them anymore.RIA = irritating advertisingNobody wants intrusive RIAs to pop up...
- Tags: rich Internet application, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
- The first public release of Moonlight -- the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders -- is out. De Icaza, Novell Vice President for Developer Technologies, noted the release in a blog post dated May 13. De Icaza noted...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0My Wish List.Only one thing: I would like Microsoft to get solidly behind Mono to get a complete and up-to-date .Net implementation for Linux.Very interesting. Not sure what they hope to gain here or how the willmaintain the block-in. Probably the best answer, is that...
- Tags: Linux, .NET, Development tools, Golden Age, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost 2.0, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocialNice to see all of the open moves by Yahoo. They seem to have decided thatbeing more open is the only thing that can save them from Microsoft. Time will tell if it works or not . . . .Are you kidding?Microsoft...
- Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Mono project releases first IDE, Mono 2.0 into beta
- Novell's Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment IDE for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications....
- Tags: Mono, IDE, Novell Inc., Beta, Development Environment, MonoDevelop 1.0, Mono Project, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
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