Microsoft demos new Silverlight capabilities
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft wants Silverlight to be a rich interactive application environment you can bank on -- literally.
The software giant demonstrated for the first time an application based on its Silverlight RIA platform that portends how banks might bring their online banking sites into the Web 2.0 era.
Joseph Cleaver, platform strategy advisor for Microsoft's financial services business, gave the Silverlight demo at the Web Services/SOA on Wall Street Conference on Feb. 11 in New York.
The demonstrations use the graphical model of Tafiti, Microsoft's experimental search interface. Tafiti, described as "search visualization," renders results through visual icons (newspaper, phonebook, feeds, Web and images) that rotate on what looks like a dish or half-sphere.