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Microsoft Hopes To Strike Gold With Silverlight

OK, so it's not the greatest play on words of all time, but we were trying to go for something other than a "turns on Silverlight" phrase (which Keith Ward already stole), which kind of makes us think of a lousy old Neil Diamond song.

Anyway, Microsoft released Silverlight this week.

Posted by Lee Pender on September 06, 2007


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