Microsoft Silverlight on Linux using Moonlight 3

Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight technology. For those of you who don't know, Silverlight is that thing that Netflix made you install so you could watch all those B horror movies from the 80s on your laptop in bed. The rest of us refer to it as another one of those proprietary "flash-like" technologies that everybody hopes will die an inglorious unmerciful death at the hands of HTML5.

Anyway, Moonlight 3 is in pre-release/alpha stage, and is available now. You know, just in case you're a linux user, and you're in the mood for something terrible and stupid, you can now watch olympic ice dancing on the NBC website:


And now to answer your next question (the one you didn't even know you had), no you still cannot watch netflix movies on linux. You can get a little further if you use a fake user agent to tell Netflix you're a windows box:


But even then, you'll only make it as far as this:


Wahhh wahhhh DRM fail. Maybe someday.