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Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the recoding-takes-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft still has not adopted Silverlight, and uses Flash all over its websites. 'Despite all the controversy over Microsoft using Silverlight to take over the rich internet market from Adobe Flash, the software giant seems to be not even trying. In fact, even most Microsoft web sites are using Flash instead of Silverlight.'"

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  1. Re:Silverlight is insignificant by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And the average technical knowledge of /. continues to decline.

  2. Re:Silverlight is insignificant by Richard_at_work · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who the fuck modded me troll? Giving the previous poster *exactly* what he wanted, access to an open source implementation he can vet to his hearts content, and thats trolling here these days?

    I guess thats what happens when you give 12 year olds mod points. Infantile.

  3. Re:Silverlight is insignificant by marcansoft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The SWF format isn't open. Adobe just happens to let you see the spec if you agree not to write a Flash Player clone. Definitely not "open".

  4. Re:This story is idiotic. by davester666 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Like everyone else, MS is just waiting until they release Silverlight 3.0. It'll finally be usable on MS platforms. It'll be usable with the v4.0 release on the Apple desktop platform (although it will be missing critical features, making it unusable).

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