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Microsoft lashes out at Adobe over Silverlight comments | |
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| Time: 08:57 EST/13:57 GMT | News Source: Macworld | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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"The idea that Silverlight is in anything other than rude health is more to do with what Adobe would like to be the case, rather than what actually is the case," he wrote in the blog posting. "The suggestion that 'Silverlight adoption has fizzled out in the last 6-9 months' is pretty risible, in fact. For starters, Silverlight 2 shipped four months ago, and in just the first month of its availability, we saw over 100 million successful installations just on consumer machines. That doesn't sound like 'fizzling out' to me." |
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| #1 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Friday, February 13, 2009 10:40:02 AM |
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typical
6 months ago: Adobe: silverlight is a nice toy now: Adobe: silverlight sucks future: Adobe: microsoft bundles and hides the blueprints |
| #2 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Friday, February 13, 2009 10:53:20 AM |
| #1, you nailed thay one! |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, February 13, 2009 11:47:09 AM |
| The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Where are all the websites with Silverlight content? Every site on the planet uses Flash, but it seems that only MS on the microsoft.com uses Silverlight. They paid big to have the Olympics and PrezBo's inauguration on Silverlight, but that's it. |
| #4 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Friday, February 13, 2009 11:57:40 AM |
| SL 2.0 is much more about RIA apps and access to .NET controls than it is about content delivery. The experience one may deliver in an RIA can be pretty stunning. I suspect that SL's best days are in front of it. |
| #5 By 16797 (70.48.176.126) at Friday, February 13, 2009 12:22:31 PM |
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#3 Netflix? :)
I expect that most of Silverlight deployments will be on the intranet. How many web sites use Java applets, that you know of? Not many (OK, GoDaddy does :). Yet, where I work, we use them a lot internally. Internet sites are another matter.. It will take years for Silverlight to gain any significant traction given that Flash is already in wide use there and popular among LAMP designers. However.. Where are all those Flex/AIR/Flash RIA apps we were promised? Don't see any really. Actually I think both Flash and Silverlight may become almost irrelevant in the future as HTML/CSS/Javascript (+ some SVG) advance more and more.. |
| #6 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Friday, February 13, 2009 12:24:20 PM |
| jQuery is another Goz purdy sweet stuff. |
| #7 By 3 (86.1.44.213) at Friday, February 13, 2009 12:33:27 PM |
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In fairness to Adobe, got to say I have yet to come across one Silverlight site - not saying that I won't - but the 100 million downloads are pretty obviously good - yet thats because they were on Windows Update even if you didn't have it installed already and I'd say at least 75% of those were downloaded from there.
I hope Silverlight becomes well used, but until I see sites using it no one can say how popular it may become. |
| #8 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, February 13, 2009 12:56:29 PM |
| #5: I had read somewhere else that HTML5 plus some other goodies would make Flash & Silverlight irrelevant just like you said. But then we have to rely on the major browser vendors to support this stuff. MS may or may not have the desire to follow along instead of staying back and pushing Silverlight. |
| #9 By 12071 (203.210.68.145) at Friday, February 13, 2009 07:05:52 PM |
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#7 I'd wager that it's closer to 95% due to Windows Update - isn't it great to have a monopoly :)
Then 4.9% will be users clicking on "Yes" when visiting microsoft.com when asked if they want Silverlight - users love to click on the default button :) And finally 0.1% will be developers who got it to try it out. |
