Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight

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.'"

Comments

Re:Silverlight is insignificant

[modmans2ndcoming]

uhhh.... news flash, there is an OS X and Linux runtime.

JavaFX.com is Java-free

[ewg]

JavaFX.com uses JavaScript and QuickTime to promote the benefits of JavaFX. No JVM needed.

(Of course, you still have to visit the Wikipedia article for an introduction in context.)

Re:Silverlight is insignificant

[Gavagai80]

Newsflash: getting silverlight (moonlight) to actually install on Linux takes a team of experts, and even if you manage that it'll fail on most pages. It's no more accurate to say that there's a silverlight for linux than it is to say that all windows programs run in linux thanks to wine.

Re:Silverlight is insignificant

[ozmanjusri]

Perhaps someone can illustrate to me why I'm wrong and it really is good for application development and I'm just missing something every time I come to look it it (perhaps because the books and documentation are almost all aimed at animators+designers, not developers?).

Yes, you're wrong.

It's a shame you spent so much effort writing all that and none on Googling, because there is plenty of information out there.

Adobe's own application platform for Flash is Flex. OpenLaszlo is an open-source XML based programming language for developing apps in SWF. Flash itself also has a substantial component collection for app development, and finally, there are dozens of third-party ActionScript IDEs and compliers available.

That's why Microsoft is introducing Silverlight. Flash is threatening to become an OS-independent application platform which could make Windows irrelevant.