Microsoft Unveils Silverlight 4 Beta, Adds Google Chrome Support

Published by Tech Pundit | Filed under Microsoft, Social media | November 18th, 2009

At today’s Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC), Microsoft unveiled the first beta version of Silverlight 4 , its answer to the domination of Adobe Flash. This is a developer beta — no end-user runtime is available at the moment — but the new beta offers up some new features developers can play with to make web apps using Silverlight more robust. Silverlight 4 brings a slew of new features, including support for printing, webcams and microphones and rich text and custom menu options, as well as the ability to interact with local files in trusted applications