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Microsoft Silverlight on Tafiti.com

After my previous Apple-bashing, this post is really not going to make me popular. This Microsoft Silverlight thingy looks very cool indeed. For those of you that don’t care about the geeky side of things, it’s a small widget that you load into your browser and it lets the clever people out there create some amazing things to go on in your browser. To show it off, Microsoft have put out Tafiti. Currently it doesn’t do that much, but with the added ‘ooomph’ this thing will provide it shouldn’t be long before folk are pushing out proper Hi-Def imagery (rather than the browser max, expanded as it currently does) and since it will run Javascript immensely fast it should allow some incredible things to be done with that imagery. The rumour mill even suggests that long-term Microsoft sceptics are even impressed with this little bit of gadgetry……