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Watch the Obama Inauguration With Moonlight

Posted by timothy on from the join-this-program-already-in-progress dept.

bigmonachus writes "Miguel de Icaza has posted on his blog that linux users will be able to watch the Obama inauguration using Moonlight. Just go to the Moonlight download page to get it. He also said that some Microsoft engineers worked hard last night to make this happen."

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  1. Yea... That means alot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft engineers worked hard last night to make this happen."

    Didn't they say the same thing about Windows XP a week before release?

    1. Re:Yea... That means alot. by PinkyDead · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...and again a week after Vista was released.

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  2. Silverlight is the way to go by El+Lobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silverlight is just a pleasure to program in. Being a subset of dotnet you have just a gazillion great classes at the top of your fingers for you to use in any language you want that just supports .NET.

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  3. Oh God no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't need to see any more media masturbation at the mere mention of Obama.

  4. Bitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Miguel and a bunch of Microsoft employees worked late last night to make all of this happen, which was very considerate. This is a nice thing to do for linux users around the world.

    Of course I don't think any of them imagined that it would have any effect on the bitterness over at Slashdot.

  5. Re:A point for MS by Zerth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, they just did it because they found out they were part of the 15,000 being laid off.

  6. Re:The best way to watch the inauguration by markov_chain · · Score: 2, Funny

    And since it's at night, you could really watch it under moonlight!

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  7. Re:Or not by michrech · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, Hulu *is* using Fox content for their coverage (having just checked it out myself). I'd find it boring, too!

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  8. WOHOO!!! by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bush out and MS being nice, on the same day? Did I smoke a really fat doobie last night?

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  9. Re:A point for MS by bozojoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    you misspelled 17,000

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