Silverlight

Microsoft’s Silverlight is growing in popularity across the web as the technology of choice when it comes to creating web sites featuring high definition video streaming and rich interactive user interfaces that are exciting and compelling.  But, did you know that Silverlight can help your business do more both on and off the internet?  The Silverlight plug-in is both cross-browser and cross-platform.  This means that your applications will have fewer problems running in different browsers, and can even be used on mobile devices.  And support for browser-less web applications is right around the corner with Silverlight 3.

Silverlight is being used every day in businesses just like yours to:

• Enhance public facing sites to deliver a compelling message that keeps customers coming back
• Deliver easy to use, fast and efficient applications on extranets to communicate more information with business partners
• Provide tools, such as training videos and rich interactive applications (also known as RIA’s), which empower employees to do more in less time 

So how do you know if you need Silverlight?  Consider your answers to these questions:

1. Do you need to reach customers via the Internet and stand out from your competitors?
2. Do you need your public site to be SEO friendly (search engine optimized so it is “discoverable” by search engines)?
3. Do you need an extranet that is easy for your business partners to use and provides them with interactive tools that help them do more business with you?
4. Do you need to help your employees do more in less time by providing familiar, intuitive user interfaces?

Do you need to do all this without retraining your IT staff or introducing a whole new technology base into your support system?

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