Microsoft Silverlight 3 GPU Powered Acceleration
July 14, 2009 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Microsoft has released Silverlight version 3 with GPU Acceleration. The Silverlight web application framework is a direct competition to Adobe Flash.
This version of Silverlight supports Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8 and Firefox 2, 3 on Windows, and Safari 3, and 4 on the MAC platform. Microsoft however; has not included Opera and Chrome browsers which is probably a slap of Google enforcing that they are no force in the browser wars.
The 3rd version of Silverlight came after four months of beta and now supports a lot of new features and APIs including the GPU hardware acceleration. Aside from GPU, the framework has new codec supports – H.264, and MPEG-4, improved logging for analytics, deep linking, multi-touch support, and improved text quality.
Silverlight 3 also packs with high quality and high definition video abilities including high def in full screen mode.
Go ahead and download Silverlight 3.
Image from Silverlight 3.
