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Silverlight 3.0 Released, Allows Apps Outside the Browser
Many different sources are reporting that Microsoft has unleashed the third major version of Silverlight to the masses. With 3.0 we see things like better 3D graphics support, the ability to offload tasks to a GPU, and the ability to run apps outside of the browser. "Silverlight's video capabilities have always been impressive when compared to Flash, and the new version boasts some new features that should keep the competition with Flash hot. It uses a media broadcasting technology Microsoft calls Smooth Streaming, an adaptive technology for playing the same H.264 video stream at the highest bitrate the device and its bandwidth limitations will allow. So if you've got a fast computer with an HD monitor and a wide open pipe, you'll see super high quality video at up to full 1080p HD. If you've got a dinky smartphone with mid-level data service, you'll see a constrained version of the same video."
Why should MS support their competition? Why don't you Linux whiners develop your own "integrated set of application programming tools for creating compelling applications, content, and video for every possible audience"?
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Jesus Christ, it's just a clone of Flash that attempts to make Vista's .Net as a binary substitute for the open web.
Clone of Flash? Hardly? If you would have actually tried to implement something in Silverlight, you might have noticed that Microsoft actually blew off matching Flash in visual effects in order to have better server side connectivity and more developer features.
Besides, I'd take C# over ActionScript, any day of the fricking week.
And yes, Microsoft is desperately trying to compete with Chrome/Chrome OS/HTML 5, just like the company successfully killed Client-side Java and non-IE browsers as a threat to the Win32 monopoly, then sat back and let IE go rotten once it ruled the roost.
First off, let me know when an HTML 5 browser actually -ships- that works. The best we have right now is a handful of -moz and -webkit extra tags for things like rounded corners and multicolumn text, which is cool, but, even rounded corners do not concurrently work with drop shadows in the latest Chrome.
Microsoft might be all you know, but it's time to start learning about alternatives or you'll be stuck with the dinosaurs.
I program on both Linux and Windows. I have both, and use both, and while Linux has many strengths, I wouldn't be one to say that Windows is a dinosaur..
Let me know when Gnome or KDE have file dialogs that don't suck:
A user perspective breakdown of Windows 7 vs Ubuntu Linux, that's actually objective
That's not to say Linux doesn't have its merits, it does, but if you want to see a dinosaur, go ahead and invoke FileOpenASuarus-Sux on any Linux box.
Besides, if Linux is so great from stem to stern, why on earth did Google go out of their way to tell everyone that they got rid of the windowing system in Linux and wrote their own? Have you even thought that ChromeOS, if open, really means that X-Windows is dead, and every Linux will be using Google Desktop?
That's going to be the Linux of the future, an FOSS of sorts but not exactly its ok Chrome OS gradually replacing woefully obsolete X windows with a stack that will likely be increasingly proprietary.
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> Moonlight will have H.264, but we are working towards our first beta of Moonlight 2.0
You do realize that this is why you have failed. The only point(?) of Moonlight is to allow Linux/Unix users to access Silverlight content. So how many sites are still using Silverlight 1.0? And you might get 2.0 out the door and be working on 3.0 before Microsoft releases 4.0. Chasing the taillights of a corporation with an unlimited development budget is a losing game. If they aren't going to give you guys an inside track (under NDA perhaps?) so that you can release within a few months of a new 'upstream' release there isn't a lot of point to the effort. Or am I missing something?
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