Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Apollo: Web-Killer 2.0
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| Now some may be wondering why so many people, myself included, have such
| violent negative reactions to these attempts to improve the user experience
| of the World Wide Web. After all, I wrote a report at Forrester about seven
| years ago called the X Internet that claimed that the Web needed to be more
| interactive. So what's wrong with a extensions and developer tools to make
| it all easier? Well, other than attempting to sidestep important
| collaborative efforts like World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web
| Standards Project, these proprietary browser extensions break the utility
| of the World Wide Web in important ways.
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| [...]
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| It's nice to know that despite changes in interfaces and software
| technology, Microsoft's strategy for the Internet hasn't changed.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070507/34657_id.html?.v=1
Microsoft/Yahoo: The Numbers Just Don't Add Up
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| This rumored deal reminds me of when AOL decided it wanted to merge with
| Time Warner to bring Internet business smarts to the old and staid world
| of media. That merger nearly killed both companies.
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| [...]
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| Mergers are usually more about ego than about actual synergies and
| results. Looking at these numbers, I'd have to say that this one is
| no exception. Too bad the shareholders will be the ones
| for it.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070507/34659_id.html?.v=1
Related:
Microsoft Gives Silverlight a Shine
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| Microsoft is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight
| browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web,
| the company revealed Monday.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131397/article.html
Why Microsoft Silverlight Will Fail.
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| My main reasons (And please, correct me if I am wrong):
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| * No IDE for me - The development path is currently platform
| specific to Windows. Not even an open compiler or server side
| compiler for Linux is available. Use Expression Blend on my
| Mac? Not happening.
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| * No plug in for Linux - Even Adobe has managed to deliver it's
| modern plugin to Linux users. I only use Linux as a server
| platform, but with Ubuntu, etc making inroads on the desktop,
| it's nice to have it as an option.
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| [...]
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http://visualrinse.com/2007/04/16/why-microsoft-silverlight-will-fail/
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