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Microsoft To Open Source Some of Silverlight

Posted by kdawson on from the short-on-ideas dept.

Kurtz writes with word that Microsoft is about to follow in Adobe's footsteps by releasing the source code to part of its Silverlight technology. The news comes less than a week after Adobe announced plans to open source the Flex SDK. Microsoft is hungry to build the developer base for its rich Internet app tools, if it can.

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  1. Re:Really. by moderators_are_w*nke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They've certainly pulled that trick before. Where are:

    * MS Core fonts for the web
    * IE for Mac / UNIX
    * Windows Media Player for Mac

    Microsoft's idea of cross platform is do it till its popular and then EOL everything but Windows. The only reason they're doing this at all is that Flash video is killing WMV.

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