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Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming
Today Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac OS X. This cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in is fully supported and competes directly with Adobe Flash. Included in this release was the promise from Microsoft to support the 100% compatible Linux version, called Moonlight.
"Put briefly, Adobe Flex is in beta of it's 4th major version, and it's what Adobe is offering for programming targeting the Flash Player. For a programmer, it is worlds better than Flash."
"Silverlight might be awesome, I haven't touched it, but everything you said about it are all the same improvements over Flash that Flex has been doing for years now."
If it is still in beta how has it been doing anything for years????
It is a long beta then and still isn't out?
Microsoft's system as much as I hate to say is now out. Flex is still in beta.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Microsoft seems to have their stuff together more than the slew of open-source developers who are trying to compete with them. The only completely functional program I've seen come out of OSS that is widely used would be Firefox. OpenOffice.org is a joke. I used Office 2007 for a while before I used OO.o and they are not even close to the same level of functionality or sophistication (And I don't give two shits about ODF support; I want a word processor that is simple and intuitive, with visually pleasing formatting. Office 07 is, OO.o is not.) Oh sure, it works if you're a poor college student who can't afford a real office suite (MS07 Enterprise goes for $50 around here), but it's a pain in the ass. As far as Linux goes... I only ask two things of an OS. 1.) Support for all my hardware (Not entirely the fault of the Distro, I know), 2.) To not ever have to use the command line unless I really want to. Windows does both of these things. If Linux wants me, it will have to meet those requirements. Microsoft's problem isn't poor products. Their products are, for the most part, fantastic. If you actually stop and think about the huge variety of configurations Windows is compatible with, the fact that it works as well as it does right now is pretty amazing. The problem with Microsoft is all in its marketing.