It's been a couple of weeks since the full announcement of Silverlight took place -- now that other players have shown some of their cards and the dust has begun to settle, what can we take from it?
When Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight, he is usually having one of two types of conversations.
Content developed for the software giant's alternative to Adobe's Flash will be able to be viewed on Nokia smartphones.
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Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
It's been a couple of weeks since the full announcement of Silverlight took place -- now that other players have shown some of their cards and the dust has begun to settle, what can we take from it?
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?
Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
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