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In what is increasingly becoming a war of words between Microsoft and Adobe, the two companies seem to time announcements about Silverlight and Flash respectively in an effort to steal the other’s thunder. Last night, a few hours before the embargo lifted on a bundle of announcements Adobe was making at their annual MAX conference, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division Scott Guthrie put out a post on his blog about the state of Silverlight and hinted at upcoming features in Silverlight 3, which should ship next year.
微软和Adobe之间的口水战越来越多了，两家公司似乎都在定时发布有关Silverlight和Flash的消息，以窃取对方的风头。 昨晚，在禁运解除Adobe在其年度MAX会议上发布的公告的几个小时之前，微软公司.NET开发人员部门的公司副总裁Scott Guthrie在他的博客中发布了有关Silverlight状态的帖子 ，并暗示将于明年发布的Silverlight 3中即将发布的功能。
Guthrie was obviously very positive on Silverlight and the strides Microsoft has made in 2008 in getting the browser plugin out onto consumer machines. According to Guthrie, since the release of Silverlight 2 last month, the plugin has been downloaded over 100 million times, and some version of Silverlight is installed on 1 in 4 web connected computers. That’s pretty good for a technology that initially debuted under 20 month ago.
Guthrie显然对Silverlight持非常乐观的态度，微软在2008年将浏览器插件推广到消费类计算机方面取得了长足的进步。 根据Guthrie的说法，自上个月发布Silverlight 2以来，该插件已被下载了超过1亿次，并且某些版本的Silverlight已安装在每4台Web连接的计算机中。 对于最初在20个月前首次亮相的技术来说，这是相当不错的。
Guthrie also took some direct shots at Adobe’s competing Flash technology. “In the August 2008 edition of Web Designer Magazine (a Dutch publication) a [Dutch television network] representative reported that they were able to serve 100,000 concurrent users using Silverlight and 40 Windows Media Servers, whereas it would have required 270 servers if they had used Flash Media Servers,” he wrote. Guthrie also specifically noted that Flash is being replaced by Silverlight in Blockbuster’s MovieLink application.
Guthrie还对Adobe的竞争Flash技术进行了直接拍摄。 “在2008年8月出版的《 Web Designer杂志》(荷兰出版物)中，[荷兰电视网络]代表报告说，他们能够使用Silverlight和40台Windows Media Server为100,000个并发用户提供服务，而如果他们拥有，则需要270台服务器使用了Flash Media Server。”他写道。 Guthrie还特别指出，在Blockbuster的MovieLink应用程序中，Flash已被Silverlight取代。
One of reasons Microsoft is in a position to be able to take on Adobe’s Flash, which has an 11 year head start and nearly ubiquitous deployment, is the strength the company has in the enterprise. Microsoft has been able to lean on its corporate partners to score some high profile deployments of Silverlight very quickly, including at NBC, Netflix, AOL, Toyota, and Akamai. There aren’t many companies that could do that and push out a new plugin so quickly. (Google comes to mind as another who has the muscle to get it done — and Steve Gillmor recently suggested that they may actually be headed into the fray as well.)
微软有能力采用Adobe的Flash的原因之一是该公司在企业中的实力，该Flash具有11年的领先优势，几乎无处不在的部署。 微软已经能够依靠其企业合作伙伴，在NBC，Netflix，AOL，Toyota和Akamai上Swift获得一些著名的Silverlight部署评分。 没有多少公司可以做到这一点，并能如此Swift地推出新插件。 (谷歌是另一个有能力做到这一点的人- 史蒂夫·吉尔莫尔 ( Steve Gillmor)最近建议他们实际上也可能会陷入困境。)
In his post Guthrie also hinted at some features in the upcoming version 3 release of Silverlight, that should drop next year. According to Guthrie, Silverlight 3 will include:
Guthrie在他的帖子中还暗示了即将在明年发布的Silverlight 3版本中的某些功能，这些功能将于明年发布。 根据Guthrie的说法，Silverlight 3将包括：
Major media enhancements (including H.264 video support) [Note: we reported on H.264 video and AAC audio support in Silverlight in September]
主要媒体增强功能(包括对H.264视频的支持)[注意：我们在9月的Silverlight中报告了对H.264视频和AAC音频的支持 ]
Major graphics improvements (including 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration) 重大图形改进(包括3D支持和GPU硬件加速) Major application development improvements (including richer data-binding support and additional controls) 重大的应用程序开发改进(包括更丰富的数据绑定支持和其他控件)Guthrie says that further new features will be announced closer to release. In addition, Guthrie notes that new versions of Visual Studio (pictured below) and Visual Web Developer Express coming next year will include fully editable and interactive design tools for Silverlight, as well as new data-binding tools. Though it’s hard to tell, it appears that Visual Studio might be inheriting some features of Microsoft Blend.
Guthrie说，更多的新功能将在发布时宣布。 此外，Guthrie指出，明年推出的新版本的Visual Studio(如下图所示)和Visual Web Developer Express将包括用于Silverlight的完全可编辑和交互式设计工具，以及新的数据绑定工具。 尽管很难说，但似乎Visual Studio可能继承了Microsoft Blend的某些功能。
Blend is a UI design tool for WPF and Silverlight projects that might be looked at as the Microsoft equivalent of the Adobe Flash Catalyst tool launched today (our coverage), though it seems less polished in my opinion, despite being older. (Though, I’m a writer, not a coder or designer, so take that opinion as you will.) Blend already supports seamless transition of code between it and Visual Studio, but it appears that Microsoft might be taking that a step further by integrating Blend-like UI design tools directly into Visual Studio.
Blend是用于WPF和Silverlight项目的UI设计工具，可以将其视为与Microsoft今天发布的Adobe Flash Catalyst工具相当的工具( 我们覆盖 )，尽管我认为它虽然年代久远，但看起来还不够完善。 (尽管我是作家，而不是编码器或设计师，所以请您采取这种意见。)Blend已经支持它与Visual Studio之间的代码无缝过渡，但是看来Microsoft可能会采取进一步的措施将类似于Blend的UI设计工具直接集成到Visual Studio中。
Update: True to form, as I was writing this post Adobe’s PR department emailed me to let me know that Major League Baseball has signed a 2-year agreement stream video via its web site using Flash starting in 2009. The MLB currently uses Silverlight to stream live video, though their system requirements also list Flash player as necessary, so it’s hard to tell if this is a full shift to Flash or not.
更新：形式正确，我写这篇文章时，Adobe的PR部门通过电子邮件发送给我，让我知道，美国职业棒球大联盟已于2009年开始通过其网站使用Flash签署了一份为期两年的协议流视频。美国职业棒球大联盟目前使用Silverlight来流实时视频，尽管他们的系统要求也根据需要列出了Flash播放器，所以很难说这是否完全转向了Flash。
Either way, the war of words is in full swing today (no pun intended).
无论哪种方式，今天的口水战如火如荼(无双关语)。
Update #2: I just got off the phone with Jen Taylor at Adobe who confirms that MLB.TV will switch to Flash starting next year for live video streaming. The reason the MLB.com system requirements page lists both Flash and Silverlight is that Major League Baseball has been using Flash for other multimedia content delivery already (just not for the MLB.TV live streaming service, where it utilized Silverlight last year), and the requirements page likely covers the entirety of the MLB web site.
更新＃2：我刚与Adobe的Jen Taylor下了电话，他确认MLB.TV将从明年开始切换到Flash进行实时视频流传输。 MLB.com系统要求页面上同时列出了Flash和Silverlight的原因是，美国职棒大联盟已经在使用Flash进行其他多媒体内容交付(但不适用于MLB.TV实时流媒体服务，去年它使用了Silverlight)，以及需求页面可能涵盖了MLB网站的整个网站。
翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/microsoft-100-million-silverlight-downloads-in-4-weeks/
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