Silverlight

Silverlight is a program developed by Microsoft, released on September 5th 2007. Before Silverlight, websites were restricted to GIFs and Flash when it came to animation. However, with this new release, graphical/animation display with multimedia and interactivity is provided. This program is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X. The new version of Silverlight, Version 1.1, will be released in a few months.

Windows 7

Windows 7 will be the next version of Microsoft Windows that is to come out in the year 2010. It will be Windows Vista's successor, which was the previous version that was released in July 2007. Though not many details have been released, Bill Gates has stated that the new operating system will be more "user-centric". He also said in an interview with Newsweek that "students won't need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices". Though Vista improved greatly on digital ink and speech, Windows 7 sounds like it will be a much bigger bet.