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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. Maybe they're waiting for SP2 by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know I would...

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  2. the obvious by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight Who doesn't?
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  3. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last thing they want is people going "wtf, microsofts site is broken!"

    Yes, because Microsoft products are so insanely reliable, so robust, so rock-solid, that Microsoft could in no way afford to create the perception that perhaps something of theirs is broken. It would ruin them, I tell you!
  4. Re:re-development cost by mysticgoat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't realize that Microsoft still had developers. I sort of thought that Vista and Office 2007 demonstrated that all the developers had exercised their stock options and gone on to more interesting projects with Google, IBM, and Yahoo.

    Um, wasn't that what the Yahoo deal was really all about? Ballmer trying to reclaim some of his developers developers developers?