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Cross-Platform Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the good-tools-is-good-tools dept.

willdavid sends us to the ZDNet blogs for a provocative opinion piece by John Carroll. He points to Microsoft's evident cross-platform strategy with Silverlight, and wonders whether the company couldn't make money — and win friends — by extending its excellent development ecosystem cross-platorm. "Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version that runs on Mac OS X (which is even available from the Apple web site). The last step is Linux, and Microsoft is working with Novell and Mono to make this happen."

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  1. The last step is Linux? by RandoX · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess I can forget about it for BeOS.

    1. Re:The last step is Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Guess I can forget about it for BeOS. Most of us already have
    2. Re:The last step is Linux? by JFitzsimmons · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everyone? Can you imagine how bad their network stack would be if they had written it themselves?

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  2. Directions from Microsoft by UncleWilly · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Insure all your Linux DLLs (*.dll) are in your PATH statement.
    2. type make
    3. ???
    4. profit!

  3. Re:bleh by nine-times · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well they've always done a good job at their Macintosh ports and keeping them up to date...

    Oh, hold on a second while I minimize this window of IE5 for OSX. I have to open Outlook for OS9 to reply to an e-mail.

  4. Frontpage is cross platform by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Microsoft supports cross platform capabilities for their web editing program, Frontpage. Frontpage users have been able to upload their pages to Linux servers for years.

  5. Re:Some day M$ will own all the code. by clem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shouldn't you be doing something else? Like updating your website?

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  6. Re:bleh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS Silverlight is their planned attempt at killing off not only Adobe Flash but also all this AJAX stuff

    Killing off Flash and AJAX? So, you're saying we should LIKE Microsoft now?