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Title: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Post by: Marc57 on April 16, 2007, 06:56:47 PM
Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name--Silverlight--and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the Web.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sheds+light+on+Flash+rival/2100-1012_3-6176022.html?tag=html.alert.comp

This could get interesting.
Title: Re: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Post by: cogadh on April 16, 2007, 07:29:05 PM
Indeed.

Flash has become so integrated into modern web development, it would almost seem that M$ would have no chance to crack that market. But then you look at the money that M$ can throw at the project and the amount of third-party support that can buy... this is going to get very interesting.

I wonder if extending their market to web development like this will be affected by any of the already existing anti-trust rulings against M$?
Title: Re: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Post by: .: Mac :. on April 16, 2007, 09:29:18 PM
another article
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/16/silverlight/index.php

Silverlight Supports both Mac and Windows but apparently not linux
Title: Re: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Post by: por100pre1 on April 22, 2007, 05:28:08 AM
Microsoft just made too much noise! The WPF/E plugin is slow and freezes a lot. And of course it's not available for those with Win 2000 or 9x/ME. They will never catch up to Flash, not even to Java (now Java 6). Instead of trying to take a piece of Adobe's cake they should fix dotNet 3 Windows CardSpace; another "promising" technology that just crashes on many WinXP SP2 computers.  ;D
Title: Re: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Post by: Marc57 on April 22, 2007, 06:03:45 AM
Paul Thurrott just did a Windows Weekly podcast that talks about silverlight.


http://www.twit.tv/ww
Title: Re: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Post by: por100pre1 on April 23, 2007, 02:38:09 PM
Quote from: marc57 on April 22, 2007, 06:03:45 AM
Paul Thurrott just did a Windows Weekly podcast that talks about silverlight.
http://www.twit.tv/ww
A very insightful talk about Silverlight. I forgot to say that the Silverlight dusk wallpaper looks nice with the XP Royale Noir theme. Sweet.