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MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events

Posted by kdawson on from the open-to-most dept.

Ilgaz writes in to let us know that we will have to install MS Silverlight 2 to watch the US President's inauguration online. Everyone running Mac PPC, Linux, and FreeBSD has been left out, as there are no working Silverlight 2-capable alternatives on these systems. Here is Microsoft's press release announcing the selection of Silverlight yesterday. Streaming of various events around the inauguration begins today at the Presidential Inaugural Committee site, which touts its "inclusive and accessible" coverage.

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  1. So much for a tech savvy Whitehouse. by retech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That certainly didn't take long to have the rhetoric fail and the reality take charge.

    1. Re:So much for a tech savvy Whitehouse. by Joe+Jay+Bee · · Score: 5, Insightful

      From these events, it is obvious that the new administration either does not know about or does not care about the passion this community has for free ideals.

      A very tiny community, compared to the overwhelming majority who a) don't give a toss about "free ideals" and b) have seen this story for the bullshit it is, in that only one website requires Silverlight to watch the inauguration, whereas YouTube and many others will be showing it in Flash video.

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      I write bullshit
    2. Re:So much for a tech savvy Whitehouse. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      People who spell that company's name "Micro$oft" give me flashbacks to 1997. Firstly because they need to grow up, and secondly because they haven't moved on since then.

      On the other hand ... neither has Microsoft.