__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Thursday 03 May 2007 22:39 \__
> __/ [ Guy Fawkes ] on Thursday 03 May 2007 22:07 \__
>
>>
>> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in
>> bericht news:70upg4-v38.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/faq.aspx
>>>
>>> What is Silverlight?
>>>
>>
>> Silverlight = .NET applications running in a browser.
>>
>> Hmm....sounds familiar. Isn't there something similar called Java? Eureka!
>
> Patent-encumbered junk. What's more, expect it to work much better in
> Win/IE while Microsoft 'extends' it every now and then. It's Windows
> applications (or applets) delivered as Web pages, which is worse than
> Microsoft's plan to integrate Office with the Internet.
Addendum:
Here's one which says it well.
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11406-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=33334&messageID=613757
"Silverlight is about The Microsoft Web
Silverlight is not about the World Wide Web. It's about The Microsoft Web.
It's about getting fools to rally around Microsoft. After all of this time
and experience with Microsoft, anybody with half a brain will be smart
enough to avoid doing that. The last thing you want to be is dependent on
Microsoft and set yourself up to be a DIRECT competitor with "Microsoft
Cloud Services" down the road. Dumb. Foolish. Stupid. Smart investors won't
invest one dime in your company and might even short your stock.
Remember, it's Microsoft's cloud. Microsoft is not investing in huge
datacenters all around the world for no reason. And, Microsoft will do
whatever it takes, including operating that new online services business at
a huge loss, to starve off any smaller competitor that foolishly chose to
develop on the Silverlight platform. Microsoft sold $44 BILLION and cleared
$18 BILLION profit last year. How many billions did you make last year?"
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