Silverlight is Microsoft’s competitor to adobe flash. On many computers you will need to download the plugin in order to watch the olympics online. What strange, is that the plugin is an artificial requirement for mac and non ie browsers. On a PC with IE7, you get a “proceed without plugin” option.

Here is a screenshot of IE7 (top) vs. Firefox 3 on the same system:

The Smart Card Manager is an open-source alternative to Microsoft’s InfoCard. I worked for two quarters with a group developing the second stage of the project. This included the creation of an API, an agent and a GUI interface. Source code for our part of teh project can be downloaded from the trak site. Also, make sure to check out the slides from our presentation.

More images of the interface after the jump…

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