Small and Medium Business Centre – Microsoft Software Products Review

Microsoft offers wide range of software products for small and medium businesses in India. The products are of much importance and useful for all types of businesses. In this article, we take a look at each of the Microsoft Products in detail:
The Products that we discuss here are developer tool products.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offers many benefits for individual developers and software development teams: Be more productive and obtain faster results, build dynamic windows, web, mobile, and office-based solutions, communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams, ensure quality early and often throughout the development process
Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams:
• Be more productive and obtain faster results
• Build dynamic Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions
• Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams
• Ensure quality early and often throughout the development process
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, Visual C#, Visual Basic, and other languages.
• Deliver media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web that incorporates video, animation, interactivity, and stunning user interfaces.
• Seamless, fast installation for users, thanks to a small, on-demand, easy-to-install plug-in that is under 2 megabytes (MB) in size and works with all leading browsers.
• Consistent experiences between Windows-based and Macintosh computers without any additional installation requirements.
• Create richer, more compelling Web experiences that take greater advantage of the client for increased performance.
• Enhance existing standards/AJAX-based applications with richer graphics and media, and improve their performance and capabilities by using Silverlight.
Currently, there are two runtimes available for users to experience Silverlight content.
Microsoft Silverlight 1.0
Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha September Refresh
Both runtimes support rich media capabilities and enable fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality audio and video to all major browsers including Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer running on the Mac or on Windows. The designer experience remains largely the same for both runtimes as well. The main difference resides in the developer experience. The Silverlight 1.1 Alpha runtime introduces support for.NET languages such as Visual Basic and Visual C#.