Why won’t Microsoft say something about Silverlight?

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Say anything, for heaven’s sake.InfoWorld Tech Watch.
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Congratulations on getting through the writing of the entire article having only used the phrase “Flash wannabe” once. It must’ve been difficult, because Silverlight is and always has been an also-ran… a distraction… a blip on the radar screen.

Count on your fingers how many websites you’ve been to that require the use of Silverlight. I bet you could still play baseball with the number of fingers you didn’t use yet. Now deduct from that number all the sites running Silverlight which are owned by Microsoft. I bet you have all ten fingers back in play now.

Flash is, as you yourself have said, on more computers worldwide than any other software– even more than Windows is. Microsoft was pushing pails of water out to sea trying to fight the tide on this one. What made them think they could sink THE most popular software?

In a way it’s good that MS is discovering that its “where does an 800 pound gorilla sleep?” personality can’t push its weight around in EVERY corner of the computer world. Apple is trying to do without Flash… MS tried to create an alternative.

I’m quite happy that if the world embraces a new alternative to Flash, the alternative is HTML5, a community-based standard, so we’re not forced to march lockstep behind some breath-holding fruitselling fanboi Steve nor the fat boy Steve who yells “developers, developers, developers, developers!!!” one year and passes mute “you’re history!” judgement on Silverlight developers the next year.

Silverlight is barely an “also ran”. Let it, and MS’s penchant for world domination, die a natural death.

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Of course, H264 is not a truly open-source standard. It does come in an open flavor, but there are at least two proprietary versions. (One of which belongs to Apple.) Just wanted to keep things fair and balanced all around on this point about Flash vs. HTML5 standards.

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