Is Silverlight Not As Sparkly As Promised?

Filed under "slight of hand" it would appear that Microsoft's promise that Silverlight will work on OS X may not be entirely true.

John Lam, the creator of RubyCLR who now is a Microsoft employee, has listed on his blog recently a number of Silverlight facts including:

"Silverlight V1.1 will only target Intel Mac OS X machines."

Microsoft's message has all along been that Silverlight will be "cross-platform" (more accurately dual platform unless they're going to surprise us all with a Linux version) with one of the big marketing messages being:

"Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows."

It's interesting to see that the efforts of Microsoft's engineers has been rationalised so that version 1.1 will only support the current CPU version of the Mac hardware while Adobe is supporting all versions with the Flash Player.

You can see John's full list here: http://www.iunknown.com/2007/05/clearing_the_ai.html