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Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows. |
what do you think about microsoft's latest software silverlight.
do you expect silverlight can beat flash which has over 90% spread.(as far as i know)
here is an article of comparison and here are some discussions emerged already.Silverlight is going to be a bloated piece of crap. Allowing the direct embedding of WMV, fonts, a broad range of coding languages, and other garbage is just going to slow older computers down. But like an infectious disease, it will inevitably spread to the far reaches of the earth as MS includes it in an automatic update.
i think that microsoft just wants their name on everything. They just can't stop and appreciate what they have. All they want is more and more money. I hope it flops and nobody uses it. And when it says cross platform it better support Linux or i will kill someone.
I hope it's not going to be popular but microsoft have some power over the unexperinced users so we never know. I have decide to never install it so I will never get any opinion if it's good but there is no need of more things like this. flash is far enough.
Too little too late. Flash is everywhere. Nike's website is written entirely in Flash. Why would Nike spend a fortune writing a mirror site in Silverlight when Silverlight doesn't even have ANY market share. Basically they are not.
What worries me though is if Microsoft uses automatic updates to install Silverlight onto peoples computers. That way they can rather underhandedly claim that Silverlight is installed on 70-80% of Windows PC's [those figures are guestimates, but you get the idea] and thereby claim a market for Silverlight. This is the only way that it is going to take out Flash.
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Too little too late. Flash is everywhere. Nike's website is written entirely in Flash. Why would Nike spend a fortune writing a mirror site in Silverlight when Silverlight doesn't even have ANY market share. Basically they are not.
What worries me though is if Microsoft uses automatic updates to install Silverlight onto peoples computers. That way they can rather underhandedly claim that Silverlight is installed on 70-80% of Windows PC's [those figures are guestimates, but you get the idea] and thereby claim a market for Silverlight. This is the only way that it is going to take out Flash. |
give me five pal....
FLASH IS EVERY WHERE.....
even virus also in form of flash...
but new thing always catch people attention!!
why dont we give it a try!!Any technology prospers when a team of developers produses kick ass software using that particular technology. Flash is highly popular and used on 99% of the browsers coz it not only enhances the user experience it also adds to the aesthetic of the site. Java became popular because of its cross platform features and applets.
If silverlight comes up with something really different and usable then it wil rock otherwise nothing can beat flash. Adobe has come up with damn good api's like AIR (apollo) and they know how to stay at the top.
Well, it is not naturally bad to jump in every market and try to make good products. They will onyl get success if they build better products. Technically, silver light is not a superb idea. Just a bit different idea for the formally one and only in the market: Flash (motion vector graphics).
The more important thing here is the development tools that microsoft provide with silver light and the ability to intgrate with most of the other microsft technologies. Adobe should come up with a better Development environment as if you notice, there is no huge change in Flash development studia after 4.0 version. So 5 years with out a major leap. This is enough time to allow microsoft in.
I ran that thing and my laptop was about to blow up man it sucks bad!!!!! I barely made it last time I ran it on Halo3 site!!!!
Quit it MS stop making new crap just fix your old crap!!!!!!
just like excel was heavy and bloated when it first came out. So is Silverlight.
Microsoft is not dumb. They understand how the market works. They killed Lotus with a bloated office suite. There is no reason why they won't do the same with sliverlight.
Microsoft codes for the future. Sure it is slow right now, but bandwidth gets cheaper everyday and Microsoft knows that. In a year or so people will have even more state of the art machines and silverlight will work seamlessly with everyones browser. And we will all continue to wonder why it is that Microsoft has us all by the balls.
They didn't get where they are by stealing ideas and making crappy software. We could learn something from them. Code for tomorrow not today. It will save you a lot of recoding in the future.
No.. just no. We don't want any new Microsofty web plug-in. Just look back at Active X. In-secure, buggy and overall just a fail, but people just realised that after their Windows had been infected by some evil infection.. again.
Some things for Silverlight:
There is a huge base of developers familiar with Visual Studio and C# or VB.NET.
Silverlight uses the .NET Common Language Runtime. It allows very efficient execution of code. The toolset (Visual Studio) is also of first quality.
So, we can expect many developers to target this platform, extending the expertise they already have.
