MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com

Marilyn M. writes "It looks like Microsoft is getting desperate about the dismal rates of Silverlight adoption by consumers and developers since its release earlier this year. According to NeoSmart Technologies, Microsoft is preparing a fully Silverlight-powered redesign of their website, doing away with most HTML pages entirely. With over 60 million unique users visiting Microsoft.com a month, Microsoft's last-ditch effort might be what it takes to breathe some life back into Silverlight. The article notes: 'At the moment, very few non-Microsoft-owned sites are using Silverlight at all; let alone for the entire UI.'"

Comments

Re:Silver Light is actually pretty damn cool

[Anonymous Coward]

You're asking Slashdot readers to objectively evaluate MS software instead of rehashing the usual bias and one liners? Like that's actually gonna happen...

What about W2K, Windows Update & corporations?

[BUL2294]

Let's see, there are still millions of people using W2K yet there's no Silverlight for it. I guess those people won't be allowed to access Microsoft.com... (Read the system requirements--Silverlight 1.1 will supposedly support W2K, but that's months away...)

What about Windows Update? Will there be a special "Windows Update for W2K" until Silverlight 1.1 appears?

Why is M$ only supporting PowerPC Macs with Silverlight 1.0 and not 1.1?

How will corporations take to having Silverlight installed on their W2K, XP, & Vista PCs--in all likelihood against their wills by way of an automatic update--despite having automatic updates disabled? (Microsoft recently did this...)

Could all of this be due to a lack of trust in Microsoft???

Re:Breeze to Program

[moonboy]

As a designer, I'm really not interested in working with or supporting anything from Microsoft. My reasons? IE 6 & 7. IE6 doesn't even come close to supporting web standards. IE7 does a slightly better job. I hear IE8 is coming along better support-wise. Guess we'll see...

I'm not a Novell user

[overshoot]

Will you be interested when it does work with Linux, which it's supposed to do "at the beginning of 2008" [novell.com]?

I can't risk the Wrath Of Monkey-Boy. He's been very clear that it's death to touch Microsoft's Eye-pee unless you pay tribute.

To all the MS haters

[mrkitty]

It's their website. I doubt many of you go there anyways. They can do what they want on their website, so STFU and quit complaining.

Good thing I made the switch

[JohnnyGTO]

to OSX :-) and for the pain Gentoo ;-)