The Silverlight 5 beta will be available sometime early in 2011 and more information will soon be available at the Microsoft Silverlight site.

Silverlight 5的beta测试版会在2011年早期提供，并且不久之后，在微软的 Silverlight站点上会提供更多的信息。

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Although Adobe Flex and air-adobe's Flash-based RIA development frameworks-are clearly market leaders, the debut of Microsoft Silverlight had intensified competition in the RIA field.

虽然adobe Flex及AIR (adobe公司基于Flash的RIA开发框架)明显在市场上领先，但Microsoft Silverlight登场之后的确使RIA领域的竞争更加激烈。

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That could mean trouble for media players like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight.

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Now Microsoft is slowing Silverlight development and turning its attention to web standards such as HTML5.

BBC: Coders decry Silverlight change

RIM's strategy is obviously riding on highly portable Adobe AIR apps and Flash support in the browser (much like Microsoft's Silverlight app strategy for Windows Phone 7), and we look forward to seeing just how well that playbook plays out in the PlayBook.

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As Netflix acknowledged with its announcement on digital distribution, a dedicated device is but one -- and should be among the lowest volume -- of a wide range of devices on which the company's "Watch Instantly" service is available, including some Blu-ray players, the Xbox 360, PCs and Macs, and in theory any device that supports Microsoft's Silverlight technology.

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