Silverlight 5 announced!

Even though there has been recent talk about Silverlight and its future especially together with the forth-coming HTML5 (HTML 5) standard. But Microsoft itself, despite some slips of tongue, believes firmly on the technology. As an assurance, the company just today announced the future version of the product, Silverlight 5.

The list of new features is again long, but some highlights include better hardware acceleration, full Platform Invoke (P/Invoke) support, and 64-bit support.

A beta of the next version should emerge H1 (first half) of 2011 and the final product later next year.