Silverlight 2.0 will be released in early 2008

Instead of assigning the nearest update to the Silverlight cross-platform Flash-like plugin number 1.1, Microsoft made another decision. As follows from an entry in the corporate blog , the beta version of this update will be released under the number Silverlight 2.0, although since the advent of Silverlight 1.0 in March 2007, less than a year has passed.

It must be said that the alpha version of the program has already been released under the number 1.1. But ... "we retreated a step back and looked at all the new features ... and realized that increasing the release number by one tenth does not reflect its true nature," writes Scott Guthrie, general manager of the Microsoft development department, explaining the reasons for the miraculous renaming Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0.

Guthrie also said that Silverlight 2.0 beta will come out with a “go-live” license, which will allow developers to create commercial applications with it.
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A subset of specific .Net functions will be integrated into Silverlight 2.0, and programmers will be able to work in a familiar environment similar to Visual Studio.