Is Silverlight Necessary To Run Office 14 For Web?
Posted on 14 December 2008 by officeadmin
Contrary to the earlier circulation of rumours that Silverlight is absolutely necessary to run Office 14 for the web, this QA by Sarah Perez on the Microsoft Office Web Applications blog says otherwise. It had previously been reported that Silverlight was needed to ascertain the identities of fonts installed on the user’s system.
Spokesperson Scott Massey further verified Sarah’s claims by saying:
The information in the Channel 10 article is accurate. Silverlight (and/or the .NET Framework) are not required by the Office Web apps. They run cross-platform and cross-browser, and will use Silverlight if available, but will run using AJAX if not.
At the time of writing, it is feared that if Silverlight or the .NET framework are not present, documents that use fonts installed on the user’s system that aren’t necessarily Web fonts may not be visible through the browser.
Tags | silverlight, web
April 11th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Here we go again, Microsoft is just a monopolizer! Push their own closed, hidden code, use our not available source code, is their only way to us, you and I, to use their products… Nobody wants or need Microsoft’s silverlight, especially just to view a website and most certainly to use another one of Microsoft’s software products…
Everyone can clearly see through all of this… another feeble attempt to lock us into their products alone…
June 18th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Huh? Silverlight is far more open that flash/flex. Firstly is uses whatever language you want, IronPython, Ruby and C#, which is itself open source. Microsoft have released the source to the framework libraries. In common with Adobe the plugin is closed source (but for both commercial and security reasons that’s to be expected).
I certainly have no problem installing it if it gives me access to sites or applications similar to flex/air apps.
As for websites… well that’s up to the designers. If they deem it to be useful then you’ll probably have to get it too.