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Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted'
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Microsoft might finally be realizing that Silverlight can't cover every platform, according to this conversation with Bob Muglia: '... when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, "our strategy has shifted," Muglia told [ZDNet]. Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. "But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple's) iOS platform," Muglia said.'"
HTML5--another disaster waiting to happen that Apple will deserve all credit for popularizing when the number of annoyances, exploits and general chaos on the web gets exponentially worse.
Oh yes, by all means let's let the Apple worship continue here. Let's all ignore the fact that everything Apple does, it does for their own benefit. Video? SURE! As long as it's quicktime and heavily encumbered with patents and DRM...it's the STEVE JOBS WAY!
You're an idiot if you think HTML5 will serve anyone except those that want to shackle the web to patented codecs and proprietary ways. Steve is NOT a friend of open source, Linux or anything but Steve.
The HTML5 web is going to be a fun trip back to the days when Linux didn't have any of the gizmos needed to view video or anything else. Boy, I can't wait! Thanks Steve!
stagnan3t. As Linux balance is 5truck, never heeded OpenBSD guys. They
HTML + javascript he means. oh, and silverwhat? does he mean that thing I uninstall from every PC I go near? I've never seen or heard of anything that uses silverlight. microsoft is crazy to spend one dime on this crap. idiots abound, like all the damn fools who built web apps based on IE6 instead of real standards based solutions. those people should never be permitted to work in IT again. Also the executives and managers who greenlighted or demanded such development. Fire them all.
Apple didn't kill DRM. Music from the iTunes store continued to be laden with DRM for more than a year after Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store opened. It was only after Amazon took away about 10% of the MP3 market that Apple removed DRM and that was only done in order to remain competitive.
Thanks Amazon! Without you, we'd still be stuck choosing between piracy, buying CDs to rip to MP3s or buying DRM-laden MP3s that could only be played on iPods.
Let me speak plainer: don't have Silverlight, never, ever needed Silverlight, don't know what Silverlight is, don't care. Plainest of all: Suck. My. Balls. Ballmer.
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