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Microsoft releases Silverlight 1.0

We've blogged about Silverlight on TUAW before, and now Silverlight 1.0 is available. Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's juggernaut, Flash. This cross platform browser plugin (it works with Firefox and Safari on the Mac) was built from the ground up with RIA's (that's Rich Internet Applications, or fancy webpages in non-geek speak) in mind. Silverlight can also stream high resolution video (up to 720p), and promises to offer the same experience on both Macs and PCs.

Keep in mind that this is a Microsoft product, so in order to create Silverlight apps you have to code in .Net, but I'm more interested in using Silverlight apps (Netflix, I'm looking at you).

Silverlight is free, and works with OS X 10.4.8 and above.

Silverlight is set to auto-update, so if you want to turn that off keep reading.

Once you have installed Silverlight (instructions here) navigate to a page with some Silverlight content embedded in it (i just went to the Silverlight homepage). Right click on a Silverlight area, and a menu will pop up:



Clicking on that menu will bring up the Silverlight Configuration screen:



There you can set Silverlight not to auto check for updates, though Microsoft warns against it.

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