[thelist] MS Silverlight
Joe Flintham
list at menticulture.com
Sun May 27 13:32:24 CDT 2007
Charles wrote:
>>> Just wait until the next version, or after bugs are found in the
>>> current one; it is not in Microsoft's best interests to maintain
>>> versions for browsers and operating systems besides their own.
>>> This is nothing new.
>>>
>> This is what is called "pure speculation" on your part.
>>
>
> Plus, it doesn't even make sense as FUD. As any Mac users knows, Microsoft
> has long profited from products that work with other OSs. It's also a fact
> that lots of Linux users are using Microsoft mice and/or keyboards, and even
> running Windows under virtualization.
>
>
Scott Guthrie, interviewed on channel 9, [1] described the non-trivial
effort their team went to to port it to safari... I'm fairly convinced
that they want Silverlight to penetrate across platforms and eventually
out-flash flash. And since the mono team are likely to port it to
Linux, it's got to blow less than the Flash player that MacDobe built
for it.
[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=304508
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