Silverlight 5: Extending the Trusted Application model to the browser and HTML 5

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Silverlight 5 will be able to implement or host HTML 5 content as a web browser control within Silverlight. This means that HTML 5 will be enabled via group policy, registry key and an application certificate.

Users will not need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks.

For system security this will be a big improvement, and when you look at the security vulnerabilities in other browsers, specifically Chrome, it will be a big help to many shops to be able to enforce group policies on the browsers. Especially for facilities that have been hacked using a number of the script kiddie tools. Also, Apple users can be protected against their own naivety that the Apple OS is safe, it isn’t, as can be seen at the https://nvd.nist.gov site, but I point that out in other posts.

Take a look at: https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/future/#graphics

Get excited about the GPU acceleration and what that means for advanced operating systems that might be coming out from a large software publisher within the next 18 months.