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During the spring and summer of 2014, there was a lapse of development on this project. We have now again turned our focus on Skylight OS, and are hoping to release Prealpha A2 or perhaps even Alpha 1. Thank you for your patience and commitment to our product.

As more and more browsers update to current standards, they become compatible. Here is our updated list of browsers. NOTE: We are relying on developer.mozilla.org to give us our compatibility lists. It has only been tested in Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

Firefox (Recommended browser): 29
Chrome: 32
Opera: 19
Internet Explorer: not supported
Safari: not supported

With the release of Cortana, Microsoft's new personal assistant, we feel as though it would be a great step forward if we integrated our own assistant into Skylight OS. Therefore, we are announcing that we are beginning development on our own personal assistant! We believe that it will take quite a long time to develop, so we are not promising that it will be integrated with v1.0 of Skylight OS. We will publish more information later.

We are planning to release our first complete alpha of Skylight OS sometime this summer. It includes many enhancements such as working file selection dialogs, theme customization, permissions, a new window design, UI refinement and new elements, and new apps. Unfortunately, it is required that we raise the minimum browser requirements.

Firefox (recommended browser): 25.0 [1]
Chrome: 32
Internet Explorer: not supported
Opera: not supported
Safari: not supported... read more

In Prealpha A2, which has not yet been released quite yet, we added the function App.speak. This function allows us to borrow Google's Text-to-Speech engine that they use in Google Translate. We are really excited about this function. We hope to get Prealpha A2 to you as soon as possible.

The A1 prealpha of Skylight OS was released today, January 6th, 2014.